Yorkton Minor Football will see plenty of players getting ready to go to the next level.
In total, seven soon-to-be-former Yorkton Minor Football players have signed to continue their football careers, with six of them playing in the Canadian Junior Football League.
A trio of players will be taking their talents outside of Saskatchewan as Garrett Ellis signed with the University of Toronto. Domonic Lepowick will join his brother Dylan as he signed with the Okanogan Suns, Milos Mandic signed with the Edmonton Huskies.
The remaining four have all signed with the Regina Thunder as Jaxon Boyda, Kenten Effa, Reece McCormick, and Keane Szabo will all be wearing the maroon and blue uniforms.
Jason Boyda, the director of football operations with Yorkton Minor Football, said that he is very proud to see the kids getting signed.
“Nobody sees the work and the effort, the dedication that they put in behind the scenes. It’s hats off for them because their hard work has paid off,” he said. “People can see the results of the games, but they don’t see the process that it took them to get there. For most of these players, it’s been a nine-year journey and I just so excited for them.”
Boyda said that it also reassures him that what Yorkton Minor Football is doing in terms of player development is working.
“It says the process and the culture that we have here in Yorkton is a formula that produces success when the players buy into it, and we are very fortunate that the players do buy into it. We have a great culture, a great process, and the buy-in is second to none, and to be honest, I feel like a proud father when the boys go on and do great things when the boys go on and do great things at the next level.”
Boyda said it all starts from the minute they put the pads on for their first game.
“We have a thing going here where we don’t rebuild; we reload. Our foundation is with the Mighty Mights, the atom, the peewee, the Yorkton Minor Football programs that we have to allow us to have a foundation that we can be very solid with.”
