MHSAA announces year-end award winners

The region’s best high school scholar athletes were recognized by the Manitoba High School Athletic Association last week, as the organization wraps up their year.

Over 50 students from across were up for the 2025 Manitoba’s Credit Unions Scholar Athlete Awards. An athlete must participate in at least two sports and maintain an academic average above 85 per cent to be eligible for the $2,000 award.

Ryleigh Schellenberg of Rosenort School was one of the four who earned the award, posting a 98.4 average this year in classes while thriving for Rosenort’s teams.

She helped lead the Redhawks to four volleyball banners during her time at the school and was named a graduating all-star this year. She also helped her school to a pair of class-A basketball championships and was named the division’s female player of the year, while finding success on the badminton court at the divisional level.

Dakota’s Taylor Schepp, Glenlawn’s Nico Nadeau and St Boniface Diocesan’s Heleyna Moniz also received scholarships.

Ashley Trapp (Springfield Collegiate Institute), Chelsea Rachel (Ste. Anne Collegiate), Julia Van Osch (Ross L Gray School) Nicolas Leflar (Morris School) and Sydney Turenne (Steinbach Regional Secondary School) earned nominations for the award from their respective schools.

The MHSAA year came to an end in Winnipeg June 25, as the association presented their athlete of the year awards, with College Jeanne-Sauve’s Payton Durand and Vincent Massey’s Magnus Carlos named the athletes of the year for the province.

Vincent Massey basketball and handball coach Stacy Hawash and Garden City Baseball, hockey, curling and volleyball coach Donnie Smith were named the female and male coaches of the year.