Paralympics

Former Humboldt Bronco hockey player Ryan Straschnitzki has an entourage these days — complete with cameras and microphones — now that he’s changed his path to the Paralympics from the ice to the hardwood. “Prairie Cat Productions reached out and mentioned this idea of kind of filming me in my wheelchair basketball career and possibly […]

Former Humboldt Broncos goaltender Jacob Wassermann has been named to Canada’s Paralympic team and will compete in rowing this summer in Paris. Wassermann was among 13 survivors of a crash that killed 16 on April 6, 2018. The 24-year-old was paralyzed from the navel down when a semi-trailer truck drove through a stop sign and […]

The owner of a stolen wheelchair racer in Regina still has hope that she will soon be reunited with her custom-built piece of equipment. Jessica Frotten, a Paralympics hopeful who has been training to try and qualify as a wheelchair racer for the postponed Tokyo Paralympic Games next year in Japan, had her racer in […]

Regina police are looking for the person or persons responsible for stealing a customized racing wheelchair after it was stolen Thursday night from a downtown apartment building. The wheelchair belongs to Jessica Frotten, a Team Canada para-athletics competitor. She noticed the chair, which she uses several times a week in training, was gone when she […]