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Swift Current’s Joel Rumpel took a step towards a return to the American Hockey League this week. The veteran netminder signed a professional try-out agreement with the Iowa Wild the club announced on Thursday. Rumpel, 29, recently made 26 saves in his only appearance for the Kansas City Mavericks in the East Coast Hockey...

Former Swift Current Broncos captain Taylor Vause has found another home across the Atlantic Ocean. The Calgary native is in the midst of his fifth season with the Vienna Capitals as he now considers the capital city of Austria a third home. “Calgary is my hometown, that’s where I’m from, born and raised. Swift...

Three members of Velocity Taekwondo picked up medals in the Korean Consul General Cup Online Taekwondo Championship in poomsae. Cole MacIsaac, 9, won a bronze medal in the Yellow Belt Division. The young athlete has been training in taekwondo for the past four months. “Part of it was to release my...

Former Swift Current Broncos defenseman Max Lajoie has been traded from his only National Hockey League home. The Ottawa Senators traded the 23-year-old blueliner to the Carolina Hurricanes just prior to the 2020-21 regular season getting underway. The Senators received forward Clark Bishop in return. Lajoie has registered 15 points in...

After missing his entire grade 12 season due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Swift Current Comp. Colts quarterback Carter Moberg is hoping to return to the field next season after signing with the Regina Thunder of the Canadian Junior Football League. “I’m pretty excited. I like all their coaches, so I think it will be...

Swift Current Innovation Credit Union Wildcats defenseman Kamryn Johnson will be taking her hockey career to La Belle Province next season. The 5’10’’ homegrown product recently signed a Letter of Intent to join the Bishops University Gaiters for the 2021-22 season. Bishop’s University is an english university located in Sherbrooke, Quebec.

Chad Striker received national recognition for his efforts to get soccer back on the pitch in the midst of the COVID-19 global pandemic.   The Swift Current soccer coach was recently named one of eight 2020 Canada Soccer Nation Champions presented by Toyota. The annual recognition campaign focused on honouring volunteers...

Entering its ninth year of operation, the Wellness Challenge in Swift Current may never have a more important mission as the COVID-19 pandemic continues to impact many aspects of daily life. “Many of our programs have had to be shut down, but the Wellness Challenge will not be cancelled due to COVID. If anything,...

2020 ended on a high note for Ethan Murdoch as he found a baseball home on Tuesday. The Swift Current native will be headed to the Cornhusker State next year after committing to McCook Community College Indian Baseball. MCC plays in the Nebraska Community College Athletic Conference of the NJCAA.

Joel Rumpel has become a hockey nomad in every sense of the word. The Swift Current product has now been a part of eight different professional hockey teams in four leagues over the past five seasons. “When I was younger I kind of wanted to be in one spot and one team and that...