The Martensville High School (MHS) Royals Football team celebrated a successful season at their December 4th awards night. The MHS theatre was filled with players, friends and family.
The evening began with a slideshow montage of the season, bringing many cheers from those in attendance as they reminisced about the past season, which ended in only two losses, both to the same team.
Head Coach Craig Robertson took to the stage to speak about the successful season, “We got to a point where 90% of the provinces wishes they had been. We were there, and that’s what we were striving to get to,” Robertson said. “We had a lot of ups and downs, we had a lot of key injuries and we had a lot of new kids this year, with the most kids we have ever had for this program.”
Awards were sponsored by various local businesses and presented to players by their coaches. Congratulations to all award recipients, which included:
• MVP – Aidan Low
• Offensive Player of the Year – Cam Kliewer
• Defensive Player of the Year – Wyley Loewen
• Special Teams POY – Aidan Low
• Lineman of the Year – Wyley Loewen
• Most Dedicated – Hunter Dumont
• Most Inspirational – Ryder Markewich
• Offensive Rookie of the year – Austin Adamus
• Defensive Rookie of the year – Jay Robertson
• Most Improved – Preston Busby
• Academic Athlete Gr10 – Denin Lawrie-Schmidt
• Academic Athlete Gr11- Cooper Ogden
• Academic Athlete Gr12 Braun Windjack-Zubrowski
The roster this season consisted of 67 players from Martensville and Warman, including; 0 – D’Shawn Lewis, 1 – Cameron Kliewer, 2 – Levi Nugent, 3 – Ethan Twidale, 4 – Teysen Baschuk, 5 – Chase Ogden, 6 – Noah Marcotte, 7 – Hawkley Dereniwski, 8 – Kaden Wiedman, 9 – Aidan Low, 10 – Jayden Craddock, 11 – Dylan Sawsky, 12 – Garrett Gordon, 13 – Newri Castro, 14 – Braun Windjack-Zubrowski, 15 – Lane Robertson, 16 – Saxon Hind, 17 – Cooper Ogden, 18 – Corben Wegman, 19 – Josef Detert, 20 – CJ Mooney, 21 – Zander Kucherhan, 22 – Kaisen Enns, 23 – Colten Hand, 24 – Jace Lightburn, 25 – Austyn Willis, 26 – Parker Stevenson, 27 – Brock Bishop, 28 – Caton Harrison, 30 – Conner Zaretski, 32 – Ivan Demchuk, 33 – Denver Schira, 31 – Austin Adamus, 35 – Cole Schiebelbein, 40 – Preston Savage, 42 – Denin Lawrie-Schmidt, 44 – Jay Robertson, 45 – Ryder Olynick, 46 – Ryden Hand, 48 – Parker Janzen, 50 – Jaxsen Weiss, 52 – Kade Andrews, 53 – Ethan Pilot, 54 – Sabahat Mian, 55 – Ryder McCormick, 56 – Kolten Lavallee, 58 – Ben Seabrook, 60 – Xander Kalp, 61 – Ryker Heath, 62 – Max Penton, 63 – Jake Diederichs, 64 – Cooper Corbett, 67 – Hunter Dumont, 69 – Wyley Loewen, 70 – Nathan Klein, 72 – Daniel Jones, 73 – Jacob Smith, 74 – Axel Schiess, 75 – Brody Williamson, 77 – Ryder Markewich, 81 – Nicholas Liske, 82 – Emmett Schaab, 83 – Meyrick Stanton, 84 – Aiden Schwarz-Bishop, 87 – Tristan Lefrancois, 88 – Will Zinterer, and 99 – Preston Busby.
Coaching staff included: Craig Robertson (Head Coach), Tyler Munday, Shane Garner, Rob Dereniwski, Barry Low, James Mueller, Eric Prescesky, Kaden Solomon, Brody Dyck. Student Trainers: Sophie Millard, Riley Palmer, Ashylen Emms, Leah Driedger and Jaz Miller. Staff Manager: Teresa Koop-Hunter.