Inner City Kids Have Hoop Dreams, Too

Winnipeg Free Press (December 04, 2008)

Author: Besson, Allan

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"Gray Academy of Jewish Education is holding a shoe drive Friday to Wednesday for MERC," said Ashley Kaufmann, a Grade 10 student at Gray who played for [Bob Axworthy] at Whyte Ridge, and now along with a few teammates, helps him coach at MERC. If you want to help, Axworthy says all then need to do is e-mail him at rda@mts.net or call him at 233-6304. In other games:

Oxford Heights: Ryan Lewis, 14; Aaron Breeze, 12; Nikolys Krasnowski, 6; Corey Claydon, Adam Dejonckheere, Matt Genung, Aaron Lange and Nathan Zayac, 4 each; Darin Demchuk 3; Quinn Schipper and Humberto Armenta-Aguayo, 2 each. Dakota: Money Nguyen, Jonah Greenberg, Kris Wilson and Ibrahim Zaia, 4 each; Eric Frizado, 2.

[Norberry]: Benjamin Gaudies and Coe Peersman, 8 each; Michael Davis, 6; Joshua Unrau and Jeff Williams, 4 each; Michael Bergen and Andrew Chapman, 2 each; Adam Kuharjki, 1; Oxford Heights: Reggie Merluza, 8; Alexander Stulzer, 6; Mitchell Macyshon, 3; Murray Bachart, Maliq Collins, Jared Ferguson, Austin McBean, Brandon Mulvenny, Justin Sinclaiar and Tanner Godfredsen, 2 each.

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Inner City Kids Have Hoop Dreams, Too

U of W program helps youngsters break barriers

Young people playing organized sports may seem like a perfectly natural thing to most, but for some who live in the inner city, sports of any kind is only a dream.

But thanks to people like Bob Axw...

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