Local volleyball coach/ athletes golden at NAIG

TAYLOR WEAVER EDITOR

It’s been four years in the making, but Team Saskatchewan’s U19 women’s volleyball team is officially golden after beating Wisconsin in the final at the 2023 North American Indigenous

Games (NAIG).

Held in Kjipuktuk (Halifax, N.S.) from July 15-23, the NAIG saw roughly 5,000 Indigenous athletes representing each province and territory, as well as a number of the southern states.

Athletes competed in 16 different sports including box lacrosse, 3D archery, canoe/ kayak and track and field, to name a few, but for a couple local athletes and their coach, it was all about the volleyball.

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