Holden Knights may have been a little too anxious about a little trip that was going to take him to the eastern United States of America last month. However, it might have been his mother Sue-Anne that got the last reminder of that deep in the middle of the Knight.
Ten-year-old Holden Knights qualified for an international track and field competition that would see him and a bunch of other tots board airplanes en route to Pennsylvania.
Anyone who knows Holden likely knows there's not much you can do to phase him, including sending him off to the eastern United States, when he was going with no one he knows.
Apparently at 3 o'clock on the morning he was scheduled to leave Yorkton for the airport, there wasn't much his mother, Sue-Anne could do when her son woke her up, likely because he couldn't sleep and needed to make sure that someone else knew it.
On the ensuing trip down south, Holden got to do a bunch of stuff; everything from his standing long jump competition, to touring a chocolate factory, to visiting the Hersheypark.
Holden was going to be competing in standing long jump with 12 other kids, all of whom were from the USA.
He competed in two track and field events in Saskatchewan in order to qualify to take the trip south east to Pennsylvania.
As a souvenir from the trip, and he ended up bringing home quite a few, he's got T-shirts from Montana, Louisiana, Michigan, Washington, DC., and Connecticut.
While competing Holden wore the only evidence he had that he is in fact a Canadian kid from Saskatchewan (see writing pictured on his shirt).
He also brought home plenty of gifts for his parents and sister, including hats, key chains, clothes, mugs and enough chocolate to last him until Hallowe'en, he said.
Holden said if there is anything he learned about his first (of possibly a couple trips) to the Hershey meet, it's that he wants to be in better condition for when his next opportunity rolls around.
His finish this year wasn't anything he was overly proud of but he's hoping that hockey and the elementary school sports season will help him.
