THE BATTLEFORDS — Saskatchewan Games athletes Sawyer Day, Zadee Chapman and Talance Kalmakoff from the Battlefords area have started training hard for the upcoming 2023 Canada Winter Games in Prince Edward Island.
Sawyer was in Sweden with the Alberta Mogul team. Unfortunately, while there he had a crash that broke his collarbone. He has been resting, doing his physio and rehab, and can’t wait to get back on snow.
Zadee and Talance started their early on-snow training in Panorama with Coach Curtis at the end of November. Both girls trained hard and made progress in the air and on the mogul course.
Talance is currently out at Apex, B.C. training with her Jasper Freeride team that she also skis with.
When the girls aren’t away at training camps, they train out of Table Mountain with Flatland Freestyle and head coach Andrea Ornawka. Andrea is also the manager for the CWG team and has been working hard lining up training opportunities for the team in both moguls and slopestyle.
Coming up for the team next week at Canyon Ski Hill in Red Deer is moguls with Coach Curtis and then Winsport in Calgary for slopestyle and big air training with Coach Rex of RTfreeski.
We look forward to hearing more of this trio of amazing athletes.
(from information submitted by Chantelle Kalmakoff)
