Alpine Skiing
Following an early morning feast on fresh danishes and a scenic tour of downtown, the alpine team headed to the hill to wax and sharpen slalom skis in preparation for the recent schedule change. Slalom course will be set tomorrow instead of the GS course due to the predicted winds on Tuesday.
Arctic Sports
Today was a practice today and tomorrow we’ll see
the Team compete in the Two Foot High-Kick and Kneel Jump at ASK.
the Team compete in the Two Foot High-Kick and Kneel Jump at ASK.
Badminton
Carl Knickle had a few highlights with two wins and earning himself a place in the quarter finals.
Abbie Cuenza just missed the cut off with one huge win, 21-3 and 21-3 against team Alaska. Unfortunately she lost her other match on the third game, but she pushed her opponent hard.
Katelyn Mooney fought hard in every game but she met her match with a tough group. She showed true Yukon spirit with superb sportsmanship.
Michael Betts had a stellar first time performance and took one win with a close match against NWT in his final game.
Basketball
The Yukon Boys managed to survive a few injuries to overcome a 13 point deficit and win their first game against a strong Alaska team 70 to 67.
RJ Siosan led Yukon with 23 points. Dave Mindano was instrumental in the comeback with 15 points and Ian New was everywhere on the court, chipping in 12 points. The boys play Nunavut on Tuesday at 4:00 p.m. at AHL.
In their first game, the girls played a hard-fought match against Alaska but were outmatched throughout. Tuesday they face Nunavut at noon.
Cross Country Skiing
Today was a training day for the squad. There were a few logistical challenges getting equipment in place but everyone is happy and healthy.
Tomorrow’s race includes: classic technique, 5km interval start. Starting at 10:00am to 12:45pm.
Culture Contingent
Culture had their first tech rehearsal and participated in a mask dance workshop. Tomorrow they have two more tech rehearsals and are looking forward to an Inuit dance workshop. Tonight, they're excited to attend the dance at Manhattan Night Club.
Dene Games
In today’s Snow Snake competition Sarina Primozic had a great event and took home a silver Ulu, Yukon’s first of the Games!
Tomorrow we’ll see the Stick Pull at USK.
Futsal
A great day during the first day of competition. Team Yukon played a total of 8 games.
Junior female 1-4 against Alaska
Junior female 6-0 against Nunavut
Junior male 0-2 against Alaska
Junior male 5-2 against NWT
Juvenile female 2-3 against Greenland
Juvenile male 4-2 against NWT
There’s a full day tomorrow with 5 games on the schedule. The first one is at 9:36am with the Juvenile Boys taking on Team Alaska.
Hockey
The females ran to the rink this morning to warm up for the game and the males did some dry land at the arena.
The females played against AWG partner host Nunavut and the males played against a strong NWT team.
Maddie Nicholson netted four goals while Chyanne Spenner tallied up four assists and one goal.
The females team won 13-3 over Nunavut and the males lost 13-1 to NWT.
Tomorrow the females play against NWT at 9:00am and the males play against Alberta North at 9:00am.
Ski Biathlon
Practice today started with no equipment but 5 min before the session started another team opened their container to find the Yukon rifles! Frederik, the Crown Prince of Denmark challenged the biathletes to a competition, so Team Yukon took the opportunity to shoot 8 out of 10 and the Crown Prince had to settle for, well, let’s face it, he’s just learning to ski, but he had a great time with the athletes.
Snowboarding
The team spent the day practicing for tomorrow's first day of competition and are ready to shred the rail jam. Lunch was outstanding and the conditions are much better than expected.
Snowshoeing
Today was practice day for the athletes and the coaches attended their daily meeting. Everyone is keen to start racing tomorrow afternoon, 4:00pm are 2.5 km races for boys and girls in the juvenile category and then 5 km in the junior categories.
Snowshoe Biathlon
Today was a training day for the team. Some of the biathletes found their way to shops after a quick trip to the mission office for maps and sport schedules. Several biathletes supported other team members by watching volleyball and basketball in the afternoon. A small group even went to watch Team Yukon win a Futsal game! The evening before a race is always devoted to a team meeting so that everyone is prepared for the next day.
Tomorrow are the individual races. For skiers this consists of skiing for a few km then shooting 5 bullets then doing this set 3 more times. For every target you miss 45 seconds is added to your time. The snowshoers do the same on snowshoes.
Volleyball
Yukon Junior Male Volleyball Team played NWT this afternoon taking the match 3-0. Scores were 26-24,25-15 and 25-12. Highlight was in the second game with Dawson City player Zackery Bartholomeus, split the block with a thunderous hit off the opposing player's chest standing on the attack line! Other highlights included Morgan Schmidt running into the bleachers to keep the ball alive and Peter Jacobs taking advantage of two "party balls" to drive two balls into the floor!!
Play for the boys resumes tomorrow with the team playing Greenland at 9:00 and then Alaska at 17:00!
The Yukon Junior Female Volleyball Team played their first match this morning against a tall and talented Alaska squad! Alaska took the match 10-25,23-25 and 13-25.
Highlight of the Match was a solo block, by Setter, Kendra Peters, one of Alaska's best Power hitters, in the second set. That got the Yukon Team energized!
The Girls played this evening against a strong Alberta North Team and were defeated in 25-10, 25-15 and 25-8.
The Girls have an 11:15am match tomorrow morning against NWT!
Wrestling
The team met their weight class at weigh in today. The Team is guaranteed at least two medals as some athletes in other contingents did not meet their weight.
