Brynn Hawes will represent Muskoday First Nation at the North American Indigneous games in Halifax this summer. (Submitted photo/Jack Hawes)

By Logan Lehmann

NAIG Softball

Softball player with connections to Muskoday FN, prepares for North American Indigenous Games

Apr 16, 2023 | 4:05 PM

Despite being from British Columbia, Brynn Hawes will be representing Muskoday First Nation at the North American Indigenous Games later this summer.

Brynn Hawes was selected to represent Team BC for the games in Halifax where she said she was excited when she first got the news.

“I was of course very honoured,” she said. “I’ve represented my province before with baseball and playing softball, which is my favourite sport in the world, it’s just such an honour.”

Hawes added that with baseball, she went with Team BC to Winnipeg for the Western Canadian Championships. Since this is her first national-level tournament in softball, she said that her past experience at baseball Westerns will help ease the stress come the games.

(Submitted photo/Jack Hawes)

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“I’m so excited to play with all these athletes,” she said. “There’s supposed to be 5000 athletes in Halifax for these games so it’s so cool to see everyone come together for such an awesome event.”

Hawes’ relation to Muskoday goes back generations as her great-great-grandmother Nellie Crain was born and raised on the reserve before moving around the province and eventually settling in Vernon, BC.

As for her love for softball, it goes all the way back to when she was four.

“I played co-ed softball when I was little,” she explained. “I think I played soccer and all those other sports that you put your four-year-old in and I definitely showed an interest to softball. I like to think I was pretty good at it, I mean I was four,” she said chuckling.

The North American Indigenous games get underway on July 15 and go until the 23.

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