Winnipeg’s 2026 RAW Summer Camp MVPs
September 21, 2026
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RAW Summer Camp 2026 · Winnipeg Five Days.Nine MVPs. Five days of competition in Winnipeg, and nine athletes walked out with hardware. Meet the 2026
RAW Summer Camp 2026 · Kelowna
Four came down from Vernon. One drove in from Prince George. One flew in from Saskatchewan. They all left with hardware. Meet the athletes who owned the week at the 2026 RAW Kelowna Summer Camp.
Nobody hands out an MVP medal on day one. At a RAW camp you earn it in the reps nobody films: the third one-on-one of the morning, the drill you lost yesterday, the walk back to the line when your legs are done.
Over a week in Kelowna, nine athletes did exactly that. Different positions, different hometowns, different dreams. Same habit.
Here is the class.
The Roll Call
Third in the province for rushing yards, then called up for the final.
Bennett finished third in the entire province for JV rushing yards last season. Then, when the varsity team reached the Senior 2A Provincial Championship, he was one of a handful of JV players brought up for it. He scored in the game they won.
That is the memory he picks out: not the yardage title, the call-up. Fast, elusive, explosive is how he describes himself, and this is not his first RAW camp. He has been coming back and getting better each time, which is exactly what walking out with Offensive MVP looks like.
“Fast, elusive, explosive.”
Bennett Friesen, in his own three words
Kamloops kid, Saskatchewan address, Kelowna hardware.
Liam came to Kelowna for one reason he was upfront about: exposure. He wanted coaches to see him throw, and he spent the week making sure they did.
His favourite football memory is a snow game against a rival that had beaten his team all the way through peewee. They finally got them. Anyone who has played in that kind of weather against that kind of opponent knows exactly why that is the one he kept.
He is class of 2027, aiming at junior football or a U SPORTS roster, and he moved provinces to keep chasing it.
“Playmaker, flexible, lengthy.”
Liam Neville, in his own three words
The most tested athlete of the summer, and the numbers all came back the same.
Read that testing row again. Not one category. Every single one. At the UBC Football BC ID Camp, Ronan posted the best 10-yard split, the best shuttle, the longest broad jump and the highest vertical among all DL and Edge players, then finished 12th overall out of 143 athletes across every position on the field.
Numbers like that can make a player one-dimensional, which is why the tape matters. His favourite memory is a game-sealing strip sack against Westsyde in his last game with his seniors, off a clean ghost rush on the edge. That is technique, not testing.
Explosive, technical, relentless. The plan is university football at a high level, a program where he can grow as a person too, a starting job, and a degree.
“Explosive, technical, relentless.”
Ronan Spicer, in his own three words
The camp’s top defensive player.
Across a week of competition against a deep defensive group, AJ was the one the staff kept coming back to. Defensive MVP is the biggest award on that side of the ball, and it went to him.
Separation, every rep.
One-on-ones are the most public drill at any camp, win or lose in front of everybody. Colter spent the week on the right side of that ledger often enough that the receiver award was not a close call.
Downhill, all week.
Running back is the position where the tape settles the argument. Tanner ran through a full week of live work against a defence that knew what was coming and kept getting what he wanted.
The week’s most thankless job, done best.
Nobody films the offensive line and nobody thanks them until something goes wrong. Deekan spent a full week making sure nothing did, and the staff noticed.
Wherever the ball went, he got there.
That is the whole job description at linebacker, and Caleb did it rep after rep. A week of competition against a talented group, and the defence kept running through the middle of him.
The toughest matchup in the building.
Corner is the one position where every mistake is public. Rylan lined up across from the best receivers at camp all week, took the hardest assignment on the field, and kept winning his share of it.
Nine athletes, four of them from Vernon. Nine different routes. A quarterback who moved a province and came back west for a week, a running back who got called up for a provincial final and scored in it, and a defensive lineman who won every single testing category at his position.
What they share is the thing no award can hand you: they got better this week, on purpose.
Congratulations to Bennett, AJ, Liam, Tanner, Colter, Deekan, Ronan, Caleb and Rylan. We will be watching this season.
Camp MVPs, tag @rawsportsyyc when you post your award. Want your shot next summer? Registration for the 2027 RAW Summer Camps opens soon at rawsports.ca/.
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