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Featured, News July 21, 2023

NAIG: Team NT nabs medals in 300-metre dash, relay, swimming

Sweltering heat can't keep N.W.T. athletes from claiming silver, bronze

Thursday is the fourth day of the North American Indigenous Games (NAIG) in Halifax, and already Team NT has taken home its fair share of medals. Twelve-year-old Kole Lizotte of Yellowknife took home the bronze for 14U 50-metre freestyle. “I started to slow down once I went on my turn,…

Featured, News July 18, 2023

North American Indigenous Games: Men’s basketball, soccer face tough losses in Halifax

NT defeated in U19 men's soccer after goalie suffers an injury

It’s been a tough couple of days for N.W.T. athletes. At the North American Indigenous Games (NAIG) in Halifax this week, the women’s 19U soccer team was defeated 14-0 by Alberta. The 19U Men’s volleyball team lost 2-0 to the territory’s emerging rival, Saskatchewan. And the men’s U19 soccer team…

Community, Featured, News March 1, 2023

Team NT, or Team Yellowknife? Small communities lack representation at Canada Winter Games

Athletes say lack of access to facilities and community support are barriers

For Brittany Kendo, training for badminton in her home community of Tsiigehtchic was a challenge. With a population of less than 200, there is only one small gym, and one other person who would play with her. If that wasn’t possible, she says, “I would sometimes just go there and…

Deh Cho on The Go, Featured, News December 13, 2019

Five NWT Mushers heading to Whitehorse Arctic Winter Games

Several NWT communities will be represented in one of the north’s most iconic sports, dog sled racing at the 2020 Arctic Winter Games. A total of five mushers and their dog teams braved the frigid -35 temperatures on Thursday for Team NWT trials in Fort Providence. The roster dropped from…

Community, Featured, News August 23, 2019

NWT Championship Pitcher, Floyd Daniels Remembered

It usually takes two seasons of playing ball to break in a new catcher’s mitt. “It only took three quarters of a season to break in a new glove when you were catching those hard pitches from Floyd Daniels,” says former Team NWT teammate, now Nahendeh MLA Shane Thompson. “Like…

Featured, News August 9, 2019

Loutit Captures First International Medal

Fort Simpson’s Jessie Loutit is bringing home a silver medal from the Pan American Games in Peru. She and Larissa Werbicki from Saskatchewan captured Canada’s first rowing medal of the 2019 games. The Globe and Mail and Independent Sports News reports they rowed to silver with a finish in Lima…