February 6, 2024
Fish represents Canada at Speed Skating World Cup
Graeme Fish, who hails from Moose Jaw, helped represent Canada at the ISU World Cup Speed Skating from February 2-4 in Quebec City.
In the 5,000-metre men division A race, Fish finished 16th with a 6:43.41 time and 25 points. He did not compete again during his time in Quebec.
The final World Cup of the 2023-24 season had 248 athletes represent 28 countries.
Wiens, Crozon named top athletes at Saskatchewan Sport Awards
Pike Lake diver, Rylan Wiens and Humbolt’s 3×3 basketball star Paige Crozon were named top athletes at the Saskatchewan Sport Awards on February 1, in Regina.
For the second time in three years, Wiens was named the Male Athlete of the Year a, while Crozon was named the Female Athlete of the Year.
Receiving Youth Athlete of the Year awards were Regina’s Keegan Rice (tennis) and Lila Stewart (diving), who earned male and female, respectively.
And Saskatoon swimming coach Ryan Jones was named Coach of the Year.
At the event, six recipients were named in Excellence Awards categories, while 12 dedicated individuals were honoured in either the Volunteer Dedication, Coach Dedication or Inspire Through Sport categories.
Read more about the recipients at CSC-Sask.ca
Five Saskatchewan athletes at World Aquatics Championships
Saskatoon’s Sydney Carroll and Blake Tierney, Regina’s Kenzie Priddell and Blaire McDowell, as well as Pike Lake’s Rylan Wiens are among the Saskatchewan athletes representing Canada at the World Aquatics Championships from February 2-18, in Doha, Qatar.
As a part of the artistic swimming team, Carroll and Priddell joined Canada for a fifth-place finish in the team technical preliminaries, with 259.4950 points and advanced to the finals where they placed sixth with 253.3550 points. Next up, they’ll compete on Feb. 8 in the mixed team free routine.
The Canadian women’s water polo team, featuring McDowell, is 2-0 in their Group D round robin after defeating South Africa 24-2 and Great Britain 20-5. They’ll wrap up preliminary action on Feb. 8 against Italy.
Still to hit the water is Wiens, who is set to compete in the men’s 10-metre platform event on Feb. 9. He’ll be joined by his coach, Saskatoon’s Mary Carroll.
And rounding out Saskatchewan’s five athletes is Tierney, who will compete in multiple swimming events between Feb. 11-17.