Tag: Football
Game on! London, Western Mustangs set to host 2022 Vanier Cup
The Vanier Cup game is coming to London for the first time.
London Beefeaters embark on road to Ontario title defence
The Canadian Junior Football League finalists will start the road back, fittingly, in the nation’s capital.
CFL draft: Western Mustangs star Deionte Knight leads pack of London-linked picks
Deionte Knight led a group of five players with London and Western ties in the 2022 CFL draft Tuesday night. The Vanier Cup champ and U Sports defensive lineman of the year went 10th overall (second round) to the Toronto Argonauts after receiving invitations to NFL rookie camps of the Washington Commanders and Tampa Bay […]
Western Mustangs eye tough schedule kick-off as defending champions
The Western football team will open its 2022 season against the only school to beat them last year.
Western hosting football’s top teen talent in May
The top young football players in Ontario will gather at Western University next month to show their talent to recruiters. On Friday, Football Ontario announced its top 90 program selected by coaches and GMs from the U14, U16 and U18 divisions will be invited to the Red-Black Weekend in London May 14-15. The event serves […]
Western hosting football’s top teen talent in May
The top young football players in Ontario will gather at Western University next month to show their talent to recruiters. On Friday, Football Ontario announced its top 90 program selected by coaches and GMs from the U14, U16 and U18 divisions will be invited to the Red-Black Weekend in London May 14-15. The event serves […]
‘We’re training athletes’: London football club launches girls’ league
London-area girls are about to hit the gridiron in a league of their very own. The London Junior Mustangs Football organization is launching a girls’ flag football league this spring, joining just a handful of cities in the province with a girls-only program. “An athlete’s an athlete,” said director Mike Valenza. “It was time to […]
Top coaching job a full-circle journey for London Beefeaters’ Matt Snyder
The new head coach of the London Beefeaters knows first-hand what the team can mean to a young man from London. Matt Snyder signed up in 2001 to play for Mike Circelli shortly after the Canadian Junior Football League franchise emerged from dormancy. The quarterback went on to a university career at Windsor, while brother […]
Long shot: Londoner who started as fill-in snapper in Grade 10 off to CFL
Zach Zynomirski found his football calling out of necessity.
Two Western Mustangs rank among Top 10 prospects for CFL draft
Vanier Cup champions Deionte Knight and Zack Fry of the Western Mustangs were ranked No. 7 and 8 respectively in the Canadian Football League scouting bureau’s winter edition of the Top 20 prospects eligible for the 2022 draft.