Moose Jaw Times-Herald: Playing basketball to travel for change

Penny Maelde, outreach manager at Valley View
Centre, shoots for the hoop as  No. 2 for Team Grey,
Jasmine Jackman, manager of YaraCentre, tries to
block her at the Travelling for Change event at Vanier
 Collegiate on May 31, 2014. Also pictured is Team
Purple No. 5, Will Tallman, a Cougars basketball
player at the University of Regina, and Team Grey
No. 6, Paul Busse, a Moose Jaw firefighter.
Times-Herald photo by Lisa Goudy

By Lisa Goudy

Playing sports is much more than having fun. It can teach leadership skills too.

“Sports is a vehicle for human growth,” said Mackenzie Johnson, a student at Vanier Collegiate.
“Sport is amazing and it can do so much for communities. We want to be able to help,” added Makenzie Murdock, a fellow student. “We’re privileged in our community in sport and we wanted to help another community that may be less privileged but equally passionate about sports.”

Murdock and Johnson, along with Zachary Konopaki and Cole Allan, were the four high school students selected to represent Canada at the Doha GOALS (Gathering of All Leaders in Sports) Conference in Doha, Qatar. They were part of the delegation from Olympism4Humanity. At the conference, there were 400 students from 40 different countries.

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