Team Mi'kmaw Nova Scotia - NAIG

We are very excited to announce that we were selected as the John Fletcher Spirit Award winner for NAIG 2023!

The John Fletcher Spirit Award is presented to the contingent that demonstrates the spirit of teamwork, fair play, respect and integrity throughout the NAIG competition week. This will be decided through a voting process. The NAIG philosophy is demonstrated by the spirit – strong, brave and true, which is built upon values such as integrity, respect and sharing.
The John Fletcher Award is an honour of one of the founding members of the North American Indigenous Games. It is a tribute to his commitment to the principles of these Games and has the blessings of his family in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. This award is presented to the contingent whose members best exemplify these ideals at the closing ceremonies of each NAIG.

Our final medal of the week goes to our U19 male softball team who win GOLD. Congratulations to everyone!

Update as of right now. It doesn’t look like there will be a game.

5:30pm 19U Male Gold (NS v. BC). Commons field 2.

It’s official! The flag has been handed off to the city of Calgary for the 2027 North American Indigenous Games.

We are waiting for information on if and when the U19 Male softball gold medal game will be played. We will provide an update later this morning.

Athletes are able to stay with their teams until tomorrow and we are encouraging everyone to stay the extra night to avoid travelling in heavy rain.

Due to weather conditions, the NAIG 2023 Host Society has made the difficult decision to cancel this evening's Closing Ceremony and concert.

The Cultural Village and Marketplace will reopen in the morning. Make sure to check out our final Main Stage performances from 2pm - 5pm!
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En raison des conditions météorologiques, la Société hôte des JAAN 2023 a pris la décision d'annuler la cérémonie de clôture de ce soir.

Update about tonight.

****** Game is cancelled. We will update the new time as soon as we know*****

Our U19 softball team plays for Gold today at 3:30 due to tomorrow’s forecast!

We are going for gold tomorrow at 1!

We have 2 more medals and these are coming from Archery! Silver for Alexander Paul and silver for Taylor Hartlen in Barebow!

We have another bronze! Cole MacDonald with the win!

Cole Macdonald is all set to play for bronze in badminton this morning!

Here is our schedule for today!

Competition is starting to wind down but we still had a lot of great results today!

Canoe/Kayak

U14 k1000
Gold - Callum Whynacht

Gold - Cadence Whynacht

U16 k1000
Gold - Callum Whynacht

Silver - Cadence Whynacht

U19 K1000
Gold - Hannah Mills

U14 K 200
Gold Callum Whynacht

Athletics

High jump
Bronze - Jordin Parsons
Silver Cate Gaudry

Shot put
Silver - Owen Parsons

Javelin
Silver - Jordin Parsons

Beach volleyball
Bronze - U19 Male ( Josh Dennis & Loukas Claire)

Swimming

Gabriel Lavigne
Gold - 1500 freestyle
Bronze 400 free

Gideon Paul
Bronze - 100 Backstroke

Basketball U19 M
Yukon 80
NS 65

Softball
U16 F
Manitoba 19
NS 0

U16 M
BC 12
NS 10

U19 F
Alberta 14
NS 1

U19 M
Saskatchewan 12
NS 4

NS 12
EDN 0

Volleyball
U16
NB 25
NS 23

NB 27
NS 25

U19
NS 22
NL 25

NS 19
NL 25

Lacrosse
Alberta 15
NS 0

Golf

U16
Grace Berry - 6th

U19
Jenae Bernard - 8th

Isaiah Johnson - 17th

Archery

Taylor Hartlen and Alexander Paul shoot for potential medals tomorrow

We have a few more medals coming from Athletics this morning. Cate Gaudry wins silver and Jordin Parsons wins bronze in the high jump!

Bronze medal coming our way for beach volleyball!

Here is what today's schedule looks like so far. We will update if there are any changes!

We had another great day of competition with several of our athletes winning medals, getting personal best times, playing in semis or competing in medal rounds.

Here are some results from today:

Athletics
Discus
Silver - Jordin Parsons

Shot Put
Bronze - Willow Peters

Long jump
Bronze - Cate Gaudry

Discus
Gold - Owen Parsons

Triple Jump
Gold - Jabari Benjamin

Swimming
U16 M
50m freestyle
Bronze - Gideon Paul
50 m backstroke
Silver - Gideon Paul
50 m breaststroke
Bronze - Gabriel Lavigne

Beach Volleyball
U16 Female
Match loss - quarterfinals tomorrow.

U19 male
1 Match win
1 match loss in 3 games.
Playing for bronze tomorrow

Basketball
U16 female
NS 28
Minnesota 66

U16 M
Manitoba 80
NS 53

U19 F
NS 70
EDN 32

U19 M
Haudenosaunee 60
NS 51

Badminton
Doubles

Kale Johnson and Cole Macdonald move on to the quarterfinals

Mix doubles

Cole McDonald and Oakley Harlow-White move on to the U19 quarterfinals

Asher Connors and Mia Syliboy are in the U16 consolation quarters

Kale Johnson and Kassie Stevens are in the U19 consolation quarters

Soccer
Male U16
N.S. 0
Alberta 8

Female U19
NS 0
Wisconsin 3

Softball
U16 F
NS 6
Saskatchewan 13

Wisconsin 8
NS 1

U16 M
NS 14
BC 7

U19 F
BC 13
NS 0

U19 M
Manitoba 6
NS 5

Volleyball
Saskatchewan 25
NS 12

Saskatchewan 25
NS 17

Lacrosse
BC 17
NS 0

Golf standings after 3 days
U16 Grace Berry
Tied for 5th place

U19 Janae Bernard
8th place

U19 Isaiah Johnson
17th place

Our first swimming medal goes to Gideon Paul who wins bronze in the 50 m freestyle!

We have some more medals coming out of Athletics!

Discus
Silver - Jordin Parsons

Shot Put
Bronze - Willow Peters

Long jump
Bronze - Cate Gaudry

Discus
Gold - Owen Parsons

Triple jump
Gold - Jabari Benjamin

Our U19 Female Basketball team with a big win this afternoon with a score of 70-32 over Eastern Door and North!

Here is our schedule for today. Times may be delayed due to weather. We will update any changes as soon as we know.

*16 U female basketball will be playing a second game at 8 pm*
*** 16 U Male Basketball will be playing at 6 pm only****

We had another great day! We won a few more medals and had success in many other sports as well! The results/schedule page on the NAIG website seems to be down at the moment but here are the updates we know of for today!

Canoe/Kayak

K1 3000 Gold - Hannah Mills
K1 6000 Gold Hannah Mills
K1 3000 gold Callum Whynacht
MC2 1000 Bronze Callum Whynacht & Malik Stevens

Athletics
Shot Put
Silver - Jordin Parsons

Javelin U19
Silver - Owen Parsons

Beach volleyball

U 19 male
Match 1
NS 21
Alberta 14
NS 28
Alberta 26

Match 2
NS 21
Ontario 10
NS 20
Ontario 22
NS 15
Ontario 12

U16 Female
Match 1
Sask 21
NS 5
Sask 21
NS 15

Match 2
BC 21
NS 12
BC 21
NS 15

Softball
U19 male
NS 5
Ontario 4

BC -7
NS - 9

U19 female
NS
Ontario

U16 Male
NS 4
Ontario 11

NS 1
Saskatchewan- 8

U16 Female
Alberta 2
NS 12

Soccer
U16 male
BC 7
NS 0

U19 Female
Saskatchewan 3
NS 0

Badminton

U16 singles
Round 1
Asher Connors 2 wins 1 loss
Dawson Drummond 1 win 2 losses

Mia Sylliboy - 2 losses

Round 2
Asher Connors 2 wins 1 loss. He moves on to quarter finals on Thursday.

U19
Round 1
Sarah Oakley Harlow White 2 wins.
Kassie stevens - 2 losses

Cole Macdonald 1 match loss &1 match win

Kale Johnson 2 losses

Round 2
Sarah Oakley Harlow White 2 wins. She moves onto quarter finals.

Volleyball
U19
Wisconsin 25
NS 20
Wisconsin 25
NS 21

U16
Saskatchewan 25
NS 13
Saskatchewan 25
NS 9

Basketball
U16 Male
Saskatchewan 70
NS 27

U19 F
Minnesota 79
NS 58

Lacrosse
NS -1
Saskatchewan-5

Our Male U19 softball team is 3 and 0 after a 9-7 victory over Team BC!

Our U16 female softball team pull off a BIG win against Team Alberta. 12-2!

Our swim team had a great practice this morning and are all set to compete tomorrow!

We have some more medals coming out of Canoe/Kayak!

Bronze U14 MC2 1000
Malik Stevens and Callum Whynacht

Gold k200 U19
Hannah Mills

Some great competition at our Waltes championships so far!

Our Male U19 softball team with their second win. 5-4 against team Ontario!

Our Beach Volleyball Male U19 team won their first match against Alberta. Game scores of 21/14 and 28/26!

We have a very busy day today. Be sure to check out the action and cheer on our teams! ******Athletics has a 10 am start*****

The ONLY place for livestream coverage is https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQ5qg-Y5P4lhN8SLF2hFsNQ

We had a great first day of competition. We had a few wins and a few losses but overall excellent effort put forth by all of our athletes. Rest up and go hard tomorrow!

Day 1 results:

Basketball
U 19 female
Haudenosaunee 68
NS - 58

U16 female
Saskatchewan - 39
NS - 34

U16 male
Minnesota- 88
NS - 27

U19 male
Michigan 84
NS 55

Soccer
Male U16
Manitoba -2
NS - 1

Female U 19
Ontario 9
NS 0

Softball
U16 Female
BC 10
NS 1

U16 male
Manitoba 9
NS 5

U19 Female
New Mexico 10
NS 3

U19 male
Alberta 1
NS 16

Canoe Kayak

Gold 3000 K1 U19 - Hannah Mills

Gold 3000 K1 U14 - Cadence Whynacht

Volleyball
U16
Wisconsin 25
NS - 8
Wisconsin 25
NS - 6

Lacrosse
Wisconsin 5
NS - 7

We have our first 2 gold medals! Cadence Whynacht U14 and Hannah Mills U19 3000 K1

We kicked off our first traditional sport with an opening ceremony today at Lake Banook. Looking forward to some great competition here today on the lake!

What a night! Tomorrow is another busy day for our athletes. Be sure to check out some of their games. This is the schedule as of now. We will update if anything changes as soon as we know!

****canoe/kayak - pushed back about an hour. We also have athletes competing in the U14 category and they start at 10am!****