Athletics
2009/2010 Men's Varsity Football - Mohawks Football
This team is being coached by Quinn Skelton.
The Mohawk Football Team consists roughly of 50 players which includes a Varsity and Junior Varsity team. We play in the Rangeland Football Conference which includes the Brooks Buffalos, Crescent Height Vikings, McCoy Colts, and Holy Trinity Academy from Okatoks.
2 Mohawks make Canada Cup team
Congrats to Anthony Anderson, and Landon Petryshyn on Making the U-18 Canada Cup Team.
Football Alberta will have a Provincial Team at the Football Canada Cup this upcoming summer and it will be for athletes aged 17 or under up to and including July 31, 2010. This program was open to all top high school aged athletes – regardless of what grade they are in – who will fall under the magic line and have been nominated by their coach in January. At the end of January, two Selection Camps were held in Edmonton and Calgary to select roughly 90-100 players from the 315 registered to come to a Final Selection Camp in May. Players selected out of that camp will compete for Alberta from July 10-18 in Wolfville, Nova Scotia at the Football Canada Cup.
Good Job
That makes 8 Mohawks in the past 2 years to make Alberta Canada Cup teams.
Mohawks Make Summmer Games Team
Three Grade 9 Mohawks made The 2010 Alberta Summer Games Team representing Team South. They will compete in Grande Prarie in early August.
They are:
Jon Reigher: DL
Brayden Mann: RB
Clay Nagel: RB
That makes 10 Mohawks to make the last two Alberta Summer Games Teams for Team South.
Graduating players from 2009
3 players will represent the Mohawks Team South in the Alberta Senior Bowl in May.
All the best to:
Landon Petryshyn LB
Brodie Hill DB
Richard Slack DL
Courtesy of the Medicine Hat News and Darren Steinke
Senior Bowl bound
DARREN STEINKE
Thu, 06/05/2010 - 11:01pm
Landon Petryshyn is rediscovering how great it is to play football with two good wheels.
In late November after the Medicine Hat High School Mohawks season came to an end, this 17-year-old linebacker and running back had reconstructive surgery to repair a torn anterior cruciate ligament in his right knee. The injury happened back in Grade 9 while playing basketball, and he played three football seasons with the hurt knee.
After months of rehabilitation, Petryshyn tested out his healed up knee during the Senior Bowl tryouts for the South team from April 23-25 in Calgary. The knee didn’t give Petryshyn any problems and he made South team at linebacker.
“I’d run around, and I didn’t have a care in the world for it,” said Petryshyn, who stands 5-foot-11 and weighs 180 pounds. “It is didn’t give me any troubles what so ever.
“My doctors were kind of iffy about letting me actually tryout for it. They didn’t know if it (his knee) actually would have been strong enough and if it would have been healed properly in time for the tryouts.”
Petryshyn was one of three Mohawks players to make the South squad for the Senior Bowl, which will be held on May 24 at Foote Field in Edmonton. Joining him on the squad are Richard Slack on the defensive line and Brodie Hill at defensive back. In total, the Mohawks had five players tryout for the South team.
“From the reaction of the boys coming home, I think they were quite pleased with themselves,” said Mohawks head coach Quinn Skelton. “I know all of them, even the ones that didn’t make it, were happy with their performances and tryouts.”
Petryshyn didn’t have the reconstructive surgery done earlier, because doctors wanted to ensure the young linebacker stopped growing first. Besides making a Senior Bowl roster, Petryshyn will tryout for Football Alberta’s under-18 team this coming weekend in Edmonton.
Regardless of whether he makes that team or not, Petryshyn has a good idea of what he wants to do with post-secondary ball.
“I think I am going to play junior for a couple of years, because I don’t quite have the marks yet for university,” said Petryshyn. “I am going to do junior for two years, get some upgrading done and then hopefully go to play CIS ball.”
For Slack, his South team selection was viewed as reward for staying with football. Originally, this 17-year-old wanted to make basketball his main sport, but his interest switch more towards football at the end of his Grade 10 year. He actually joined the Mohawks football program three weeks into that Grade 10 season thanks the prompting of his friends on the team.
Following that season, he tried out for Football Alberta’s under-17 team, and he remembered things didn’t go well for him at all. He went into the South team tryout with the focus of doing his best, and he couldn’t believe he made the team.
“I was pretty excited with it, because there were a lot of good guys up there,” said Slack, who stands 6-foot-3 and weighs 215 pounds. “It was the best competition that I have gone up against.
“I was pretty happy with my results on how I did. I thought there were going to be guys blowing me out of the water type of thing. The last few years of playing I kind of caught up with the other guys kind of thing.”
As for Hill, the South team tryouts allowed him to focus on his natural position as a defensive back. During the Mohawks season, starting senior quarterback Matt Barnes was lost due to a broken collarbone, and Hill stepped up to play quarterback.
After the season ended, this 17-year-old returned his focus to being a better player in the defensive secondary, and his work was rewarded with a South team spot.
“It is a boost of confidence to be able to make Senior Bowl,” said Hill, who stands 6-foot-1 and weighs 170 pounds. “Basically, all the best players from the South are coming to tryout.
“I was expecting lots of competition, which there was obviously. I didn’t really know what to expect, but it turned out to be not too bad. I was able to handle myself fine.”
Graduating Players from 2008
6 players represented Team South in the High School Senior Bowl in Calgary they include:
Mark Freisen
Cody Giroux
Stephen Deriniwski
Terry Lait
Scott Wendel
Tony Buffalocalf
5 players from the Mohawks went on to play for Team Alberta at the U-19 Canada Cup in Saskatoon they include:
Mark Freisen
Terry Lait
Stephen Deriniwski (Tournament Allstar)
Tony Buffalocalf
Scott Wendel
The MHHS Football Team, Alumni and Coaches would like to say thanks to Mohawk Booster Club. Without their efforts, and financial contributions, the Mohawk experience would be what it is today.
2008 Seniors Now
Mark Freisen - University of Alberta Golden Bears
Stephen Deriniwski - University of Saskatchewen Huskies
Derek Dowling - University of Alberta Golden Bears
Terry Lait - Victoria Rebels
Cody Giroux - Victoria Rebels
Scott Wendel - Calgary Colts
Zack Branham - Victoria Rebels
Tony Buffalocalf - Calgary Colts
