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 · Winnipeg
Five days of competition in Winnipeg, and nine athletes walked out with hardware. Meet the 2026 RAW Winnipeg Summer Camp MVPs.
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 five days in Winnipeg, nine athletes did exactly that. Different positions, different experience levels, different goals. Same habit.
Here is the class.
The Roll Call
Two touchdowns in the first game he ever played.
Some players take a season to find out whether they belong. Michael found out in his first game, when he scored twice. That is still the memory he goes back to, and it is easy to see why.
He puts himself in three words: resilient, hardworking, smart. A Special Teams Player of the Year award backs up the first two, because special teams is where nobody is watching and the work still has to get done.
“It means a chance to be recognized, and to develop, and to help me reach my football goals.”
Michael Bukola
An offseason's worth of work, cashed in five days.
Hard working, intelligent, explosive is a useful set for a defensive lineman, because the position asks for all three on the same snap and in that order. Rohnin has the Grade 10 Linemen of the Year award already, and a trip to BC with Team Manitoba as the memory he picks out first.
What is notable about his answer, though, is where he points. Not at the camp week. At the months before it.
“It means a lot, because it showed how much I worked this offseason.”
Rohnin Husack
The longest résumé at camp, and the least satisfied athlete in it.
Read that list again, then read what he says about winning another award. Matthew has a provincial team on his record twice over, a captaincy, a team MVP and the Kas Vidruk Award, and his answer is still about the people beside him and the work still to do.
His favourite memory fits the same pattern. His first MVP came on championship day, after something nearly kept him off the field. He played anyway, and collected it in front of his family and friends. Three words on it:
“It was special.”
He is not chasing the biggest name on a list of schools. He is looking for a program where family and team culture come first, which is a rarer thing to say out loud at seventeen than it sounds.
“The players around me helped to showcase the best version of myself, but I can never be satisfied. I need to continue to improve and never settle.”
Matthew Sychuk
The first award he has ever won.
Every other athlete on this list had something on the shelf before Winnipeg. Cody-Alan did not. This is his first award, full stop, and he described exactly how he got it: head down, do the work, take the coaching.
His goal is not the one you expect either. He wants to keep developing and get an education, and what he is building toward is a career as a physical education teacher. Football is the route, not the whole destination.
“Through the week I put my head down and put in the work and listened to the coaching that was given to me. I've never won an award like that before, so it was a really cool experience.”
Cody-Alan Bradford
The camp's top offensive player.
Across five days against a deep offensive group, Orlando was the one the staff kept coming back to. Offensive MVP is the biggest award on that side of the ball, and it went to him.
The camp's top defensive player.
Five days of live work, and Jack kept turning up on the right side of it. Defensive MVP is the biggest award on that side of the ball, and he earned it against a competitive field.
Every rep graded, all week.
Quarterback is the one position where there is nowhere to hide: everybody watches every throw. Seth spent five days under that spotlight and came out of it with the award.
Separation, every rep.
One-on-ones are the most public drill at any camp, win or lose in front of everybody. Luka spent the week on the right side of that ledger often enough that the receiver award was not a close call.
The week's most thankless job, done best.
Nobody films the offensive line and nobody thanks them until something goes wrong. Matthew spent five days making sure nothing did, and the staff noticed.
Nine athletes. Nine different routes. One collecting the first award of his life, one with a provincial team on his record twice over who still says he can never be satisfied, and one who scored twice in the first game he ever played.
What they share is the thing no award can hand you: they got better this week, on purpose.
Congratulations to Orlando, Jack, Seth, Michael, Luka, Matthew Polkar, Rohnin, Matthew Sychuk and Cody-Alan. 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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