Yorkton Minor Football has sent three players to represent Saskatchewan at the Red River Cup in Winnipeg. The U-16 tournament features one Saskatchewan squad and teams from Winnipeg East, Winnipeg West and Western Manitoba. YMF was lucky enough to send three players to the event in a team comprised mostly of Regina/Saskatoon area players as Zach Kais, Brayden Jarvis and Jonathon Muir made the cut for the Saskatchewan team.
Team Sask's coach for the event is Ryan Hall, who recently held a tackling safety camp in Yorkton and has had success on the provincial and high school level as a head coach, leading the Campbell Tartans to success in the 5A RIFL league.
Tryouts for the team took place during the spring football calendar and offered young football players an opportunity to represent their province in an experience that is generally reserved for upper classmen and senior bowl type events. The Red River Cup also continues the trend of Manitoban and Saskatchewan football joining forces in the spring and summer to prepare for the fall high school football calender while continuing the proud football rivalry between the two prairie provinces.
Kais, Jarvis and Muir will look to impress on the elite provincial stage after making the 40 player squad in a tournament that is sure to be watched by various junior and collegiate level scouts. The sending of three players to the tournament shows a bright future for Yorkton football and shows that the program is capable of develop top level talent that can be on the level of players from Saskatchewan's major urban centres. With three of the best forty U-16 football players in the province being from the Yorkton Minor Football program.
The Red River Cup takes place from July 7-14.
