Former Tisdale Tornado wins Senior Women’s Football National Championships

A former Tisdale Tornado recently won her first championship, doing so as a member of Team Saskatchewan at the Senior Women’s National Football Championships.

Shayden Magnus competed at the event which took place for the first time following a 10-year hiatus. Team Saskatchewan defeated Team Quebec 24-3 in the final in Saskatoon this past weekend.

“I knew right from the beginning that it was going to be an amazing experience. There were a couple of girls on the team who had played back when they had it 10 years ago, along with a couple of our coaches as well, and it was something that they would always talk about because of how special it was. Previously, I had also played on the U18 Team Saskatchewan for two years, and those were just such special moments in my life, so I knew that this was going to be very exciting,” explained Magnus.

“The game went by really fast; it’s like we blinked and we’re in the fourth quarter and we’re about to win. It was a pretty amazing game; the energy was high, and there were very few moments on the sideline where something happened, and maybe we got a little down. Our captains, our coaches, and really the whole team were very good at keeping everybody positive, and there were just so many moments in the game that we had to cheer for, so there wasn’t a lot of time to really think about anything else other than how much fun we were having.”