The Canadian High School Rodeo Finals will take place this summer in Brandon, August 2-4, 2023. The weekend will feature approximately 350 contestants (grades 5-12) competing at the Keystone Centre for national titles. Participants will be battling in a variety of events; trap shooting, barrels, goat tying, saddle bronc riding, team roping, bull roping and more. Gate admission is $10, or $20 for a weekend pass. A link to the weekends schedule can be found here.

The Brandon Wheat Kings U18 AAA hockey club will have a new coach behind the bench for the 2023-24 season, as today it was announced that former head coach Curtis Brolund had accepted an assistant coaching role with the MJHL's Virden Oil Caps. Brolund, who once skated as a member of the Brandon Wheat King U18 AAA club, has been the head coach of the program since the 2019-2020 season. Prior to being promoted to head coach, he spent 7 seasons as an assistant coach with the organization. A search for a new head coach is already underway to replace Brolund.

Former longtime Owner and Governor of the Brandon Wheat Kings, Kelly McCrimmon will be bringing the Stanley Cup to Brandon for a public viewing on Friday, July 21. McCrimmon, the GM of the Stanley Cup Champion Las Vegas Knights, is very much looking forward to bringing the Stanley Cup to Brandon to share with the community, and at the Keystone Center, where it all started for him!  The lineup to have your picture taken with the Cup takes place inside the Manitoba Room (overheard door entrance) and is scheduled to run from 9am-1pm.

Brandon Wheat King forward Dawson Pasternak recently travelled to Liberic, Czechia to participate in the U20 World Ball Hockey Championships and returned home a world champion. He, and his Team Canada teammates, captured the 5-team tournament defeating Slovakia 10-3 in the tournament final. Pasternak had a quiet start to the tournament (4A, 4 GP) before exploding for 3 goals and 3 assists in the championship matchup. Paternak, from Winnipeg, was acquired by the Wheat Kings in January from the Portland Winterhawks and finished the season with 22 points in 27 games in a Wheat Kings uniform.

The IG Wealth Management Bobcat BIRT Cup took place today at the Wheat City Golf Course. A record 284 golfers were scheduled to tee off in the charity tournament which will support a number of initiates in Brandon and Westman; Bobcat student-athletes; Baldur Baseball Association (diamond upgrades); Carberry Royals Baseball Team (diamond upgrades); CNIB (guide dogs for the blind or partially sighted); Melita Golf Course (course upgrades); Westman Youth Football Association (Boyd Stadium upgrades) and Westman VOLT Hockey (assisting youth with disabilities). To accommodate the record number of golfers, the event featured a double shotgun start at 8am and 2pm. This years marks the sixth installment of the IG Wealth Management Bobcat BIRT Cup. BIRT is short for basics, intensity, respect and team. Brandon University Sports Wall of Famer, the late Neil Andrews came up with the acronym. Over $257,000 has been raised for various community causes since the Bobcats took over the BIRT Cup in 2018. Once again there was an impressive lineup of prizes for the golfers to potentially win including a Team Canada Mark Scheifele signed jersey, Vegas Golden Knights Logan Thompson signed jersey, New York Islanders Ryan Pulock signed jersey, and more. For additional information on this year's event, click here.