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 · Vancouver
Four of the nine came down from North Vancouver. The rest came in from Vancouver, Burnaby, Delta, Langley and Abbotsford. They all left with hardware. Meet the athletes who owned the week at the 2026 RAW 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 five days in Vancouver, nine athletes did exactly that. Different positions, different hometowns, different dreams. Same habit.
Here is the class.
The Roll Call
An offer already in hand, and a bigger target down the road.
Most athletes at camp are chasing a first offer. Omari already has one. UBC has called, and plenty of players would relax at that point. He describes himself as hardworking, disciplined, diligent, which is roughly the opposite of relaxing, and it is why he walked out of Vancouver as the camp’s top offensive player.
The dream is bigger than the offer. He wants Washington. So the UBC call is not the finish line, it is the proof that the work counts.
“I am very grateful for this award and I hope it reflects all of my hard work.”
Omari Gul
The Burnaby arm that out-worked the week.
Quarterback is the hardest job at any camp. Everyone is watching, every rep is graded, and there is nowhere to hide. Ken put himself in three words: competitive, coachable and a leader. That third one is what separates a quarterback from a passer, and it showed up all five days.
He is still chasing his first offer, and he is clear about why it matters. College football is the route to the degree. He has already seen what that world looks like up close: a visit to Texas Tech is still the memory he goes back to.
“After 5 days of work, to be recognized with this award made me very happy and makes me want to work even harder.”
Ken Marasigan
The running back whose best memory happens on defense.
Fourth quarter. ND up 7 to 6. Terry Fox punches one in and decides to go for two, winner takes it. Aydrick gets the blitz call, comes off the edge, and gets there. Ball back. Game over.
That is the memory he picked, and it says something about him: he is the guy you want on the field when the game is being decided, whichever side of the ball that happens to be. He won Defensive MVP in 2024. He won Best Running Back in 2026. He only picked up the sport in Grade 8.
“I didn’t start playing football until my grade 8 year and ever since then I’ve been striving to be the best and be number 1. This is a step for me in that direction.”
Aydrick Lim
Class of 2030, playing up, winning anyway.
Leo was one of the youngest athletes on the field in Vancouver. He beat older kids anyway. Class of 2030, going up against players with years of size and reps on him, and he came away with Receiver MVP.
He has done the underdog thing before. His club went into the NFL Flag Vancouver Championship as the team nobody picked, and won it, with all three of their divisions qualifying for Nationals.
“It was an amazing feeling, especially because all three divisions from our club qualified for Nationals. I was really proud of our team and how hard we worked together.”
“I had to compete against older boys. It pushed me to challenge myself and play at a higher level. Winning the MVP showed me that I can compete with older players.”
Leo Shabbir
From ten plays a game to the whole game.
Every offensive lineman knows the version of Evan’s story. You are young, you are not the guy yet, and you get your ten plays a game while somebody else finishes it. Some kids accept that. Evan went and changed it.
“I was always a 10 play kid when I was younger, so that first start and me being a difference maker meant the world to me.”
He now describes himself as relentless, dominant and driven, and he spent five days in Vancouver proving all three. Next target: an offer, and a spot at UBC.
“It means that all my hard work I’ve put into the sport I love is working out.”
Evan Latter
Proof that camps compound.
This was not Will’s first RAW camp, and that is the whole point of his award. Disciplined, hardworking, fast is how he describes himself, and a Grade 11 Varsity Conference All-Star nod says the province agrees.
He is graduating in 2027 with his sights on a Canadian university. The MVP is not a one-week hot streak. It is a line on a graph that has been going up for a while.
“It shows how RAW has helped me improve over the span of multiple camps.”
Will Whelan
Pressure up the middle, all week long.
Interior pressure changes everything behind it. Luke spent five days 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 Travis did it rep after rep. Five days of competition against a deep 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. Jack 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. Nine different routes. A kid who started in Grade 8 and a kid graduating in 2030. One with a UBC offer in his pocket and five still chasing the first call.
What they share is the thing no award can hand you: they got better this week, on purpose.
Congratulations to Omari, Ken, Aydrick, Leo, Evan, Will, Luke, Travis and Jack. 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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