New Brunswick’s 2026 RAW Summer Camp MVPs
October 23, 2026
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RAW Summer Camp 2026 · New Brunswick One Week.Nine Awards. “It’s a big step in the right direction of proving the east coast has players.”
RAW Summer Camp 2026 · Ottawa
One of them drove five hours down from Sudbury and went home with an award. Meet the athletes who owned the week at the 2026 RAW Ottawa 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 Ottawa, eight athletes did exactly that. Different positions, different hometowns, different dreams. Same habit.
Here is the class.
The Roll Call
Class of 2026, with a city-final fourth down on his tape.
His favourite football memory is a fourth down in the city championship. Not a touchdown, a conversion, the play where the drive either continues or the season ends. He made it and his team went on to win.
Fundamental, athletic, coachable. He is class of 2026 with a Second Team All-City nod and an OSFL All-Star selection already behind him, and he is chasing Division I. His answer about the award is really about everything nobody watched him do to get there.
“All the hard work and effort I put in behind the scenes gets to be put to light and acknowledged.”
Darius Larose
Day one he kept getting beaten. Day five, once.
This is the clearest proof we have that a week of camp actually works. Owen arrived from Sudbury and spent the first day getting beaten in matchups, repeatedly. By the last day he was beaten once.
He did it while moving around five positions: centre, guard, tackle, defensive tackle and defensive end. Most athletes would have picked one and hidden there. He took the hard version and credits the staff for the rest.
“Thanks to the coaches I was able to play my best.”
He is class of 2029, so there is a long way to go, and his favourite memory is already a two-way one: his first game playing both sides, with pancake blocks at centre and tackles for loss at defensive end.
“It means that I was able to overcome and improve as a player.”
Owen Speck
The camp's top offensive player.
Across a week of competition against a deep offensive group, Sebastian 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.
A full week of live work, and Alexander 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.
Downhill, all week.
Running back is the position where the tape settles the argument. Godrick ran through a full week of live work against a defence that knew what was coming and kept getting what he wanted.
Pressure up front, all week long.
Interior pressure changes everything behind it. Ben spent the week making the quarterback's clock run faster than it was supposed to, and the rest of the defence got to play easier because of it.
Wherever the ball went, he got there.
That is the whole job description at linebacker, and Rylan 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. Antoine 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.
Eight athletes. Eight different routes. One graduating this year with a city championship fourth down on his tape, and one who drove down from Sudbury, played five positions, and got measurably better in five days.
What they share is the thing no award can hand you: they got better this week, on purpose.
Congratulations to Sebastian, Alexander, Darius, Godrick, Owen, Ben, Rylan and Antoine. 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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RAW Summer Camp 2026 · New Brunswick One Week.Nine Awards. “It’s a big step in the right direction of proving the east coast has players.”
RAW Summer Camp 2026 · Ottawa One Week.Eight MVPs. One of them drove five hours down from Sudbury and went home with an award. Meet