Flin Flon MLA Clarence Pettersen delivered the following member’s statement in the legislature on Wednesday, June 3:
If you’re paying attention to amateur athletics in our province, then you will have noticed that Flin Flon is emerging as a wrestling hotspot!
This April, two students from Hapnot Collegiate Institute in Flin Flon flew out to the Maritimes to compete in the 2015 ASCICS Cadet/Juvenile Canadian Nationals in Fredericton, New Brunswick.
Hunter Lee and Christina McKay each managed to wrestle their way to silver medals in their respective categories. While this is an impressive feat, these two are no strangers to success.
Christina has won gold medals in wrestling at both the provincial and national levels in past years. She is just about to graduate from Hapnot Collegiate and certainly has a bright future ahead of her.
Hunter Lee, who will be entering Grade 11 at Hapnot Collegiate next year, has also earned national and provincial medals before.
Most recently, he qualified to wrestle for Team Manitoba at the Western Canada Games, which are being held in Fort McMurray this summer.
He has also been selected for Team Canada’s Pan Am Games wrestling team, as an alternate in the cadet category.
It seems as though wrestling runs in the family for Hunter – his younger brother is quite the prodigy as well.
Carson Lee, in Grade 8, has also qualified to wrestle for Team Manitoba at the upcoming Western Canada Games.
While Hunter isn’t officially old enough to be his younger brother’s coach, he does help out with encouragement and instructions from the sidelines.
I am so proud of these young people who do such a great job representing Manitoba and Flin Flon on the national stage. Congratulations to all of you, and keep up the great work!
