A New Generation For The City of Champions Shane Fennessey The “City of Champions” moniker has long represented our great city. Many associate it with the glory days when the Oilers and Eskimos were winning cups nearly every season. Others attribute it to Black Friday in 1987 when the tornado tore through Edmonton and mayor Laurence Decore popularized it in his response to the outpouring of support from the community, pulling together after the disaster. Regardless of which version is correct, we all know that Edmonton is home to a wide range of champions. It’s home to everyone from Olympic athletes and business moguls, to upstart entrepreneurs and philanthropists. We all pull together to support the many things happening in our city to make it an amazing place to live. Shane Fennessey was born into the spirit of the City of Champions. Son of Oilers great Kevin Lowe, he moved to Vancouver with his mom early on where he grew up trying a variety of sports, despite being a self-proclaimed poor athlete. Baseball was not much fun for him because of his terrible eyesight. For the slow kid with glasses, gym class wasn’t much fun. His absence of athletic talent was exacerbated by an affinity for junk food and video games. Hockey was the one sport Shane always enjoyed. Though he wasn’t the most skilled player in the league, he made sure nobody ever outworked him on the ice. In his grade 12 year, he won the BC Provincial Championship, although it wasn’t until men’s league that I really hit my stride.
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