Athletes from Dawson City ready to make the Yukon proud at Arctic Winter Games
CBC
The 2026 Arctic Winter Games are set to kick off in Whitehorse March 8 and two Dawson City athletes say they're ready to make the Yukon proud.
A total of 365 Yukoners are on the team, said Chef de Mission Trevor Twardochleb, including 287 athletes and 78 coaches and mission support staff.
Twardochleb said the majority of athletes on the team are from Whitehorse, but Dawson City, Carmacks, Watson Lake, and Burwash Landing are also represented.
16-year-old Mason Jordan is from Dawson City. He is competing in futsal.
Jordan said it's not his first time representing the Yukon at the Arctic Winter Games. He also competed in Alberta at the 2023 games.
He said the Yukon is going to be up against some great athletes from other regions but he's confident his team will bring home the gold.
"We have a solid team," Jordan said. "[We've] been training hard every day. Each and every one of us."
Jordan said he, and his team are spending the rest of the days leading up to the games training and conditioning for the intense matches ahead.
He said athletes from communities outside of Whitehorse have more hurdles to clear just to make the team. For previous games he'd have to travel from Dawson to Whitehorse every weekend to practice. That's why this time he decided to rent a dorm room in the capital so he could be closer to training facilities.
"It really shows how much extra work I feel we have to put in," Jordan said.
Jordan said he's grateful for the opportunity to represent his home town, and the territory, on Team Yukon. He said he's focused on two things right now: playing his best and bringing a gold medal to the Yukon. The territory won bronze in futsal at the 2023 games.
13-year-old Taliyah Ewing also lives in Dawson City and is a member of Team Yukon. She's been skating since she was two and playing hockey since she was five.
It's her second time playing hockey for Team Yukon. She said she was excited to learn she'd made the team again.
"There's a lot of older girls trying out," Ewing said. "There's people that are [between] 12 years old and then up to 18, 19 [years old] so it felt pretty good to make it when there's a lot of older kids ."
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