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 · Lethbridge
Two of them are brothers from Cardston who walked out with an award each, one on offence, one on defence. Meet the athletes who owned the week at the 2026 RAW Lethbridge 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 Lethbridge, eight athletes did exactly that. Different positions, different grades, different plans. Same habit.
Here is the class.
The Roll Call
The best defender at camp, and he plays Fridays with his brothers.
Defensive MVP is the biggest award on that side of the ball, and Tristan took it out of a competitive field. The three words he picked for himself tell you how: disciplined, hardworking, teammate. Not one of them is about talent.
Ask him for his favourite football memory and he does not reach for a play. He goes to Friday nights and being out there with his brothers. That is the part of the game you cannot coach into someone.
Class of 2028, eyes on BYU. Not just a roster spot either, he wants to start. What the medal told him was that somebody had been watching the work.
“It means that the coaches at the camp see my growth and my hard work.”
Tristan Pinchak
Class of 2030, already the best Grade 8 player in his league.
Best receiver at camp, and he is class of 2030. Back home he has already been named the best Grade 8 player in his league, which means the gap between him and the athletes he is beating is not an age gap.
His favourite football memory is a whole season, not a highlight: undefeated, and nobody scored on them once. A receiver who remembers the shutouts is a receiver who understands what a team is.
“Dedicated leader. Team player.”
Those are his own words for himself, and they are the same two words his brother reached for. Cardston is doing something right. Axel is chasing BYU too, and his plan between here and there is simple: get as good as possible.
“It means a lot cause it shows how much work and effort I’ve put into football.”
Axel Pinchak
The camp’s top offensive player.
Offensive MVP is the biggest award on that side of the ball, and in a deep offensive group it went to Hunter. A full week of live work against defenders who knew what was coming, and the staff kept coming back to his name.
The loudest job on the field, and he handled it.
Quarterback is the one position where every rep is judged out loud. Lucas spent the week running the offence, making the reads, and wearing the consequences, and he came out of it as the best in the building at it.
Nobody films the trenches. The staff watches anyway.
Offensive line is the least glamorous award at any camp and one of the hardest to win, because it is five days of one-on-ones with nowhere to hide. Orion won his share and then some.
Pressure up front, all week long.
Interior pressure changes everything behind it. Cohen 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 Isaac did it rep after rep. A week of competition against a talented group, and the offence kept running into the middle of him.
The toughest matchup in the building.
Defensive back is the one position where every mistake is public. Kale 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. Two of them brothers out of Cardston who went home with an award each, one for the best defence at camp and one for the best hands, both pointed at the same school.
What they share is the thing no award can hand you: they got better this week, on purpose.
Congratulations to Hunter, Tristan, Lucas, Axel, Orion, Cohen, Isaac and Kale. 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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