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Article: Boxers make winter games team.
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- January 1, 1999
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By Marie Burke
Windspeaker Staff Writer
SASKATOON
A boxing training camp may not be the place most people expect to be during the holidays, but for Jesse Derocher, a member of Team Saskatchewan, it's part of the journey to get to the 1999 Canada Winter Games.
Derocher, 16, and his six teammates will be in Cornerbrook, Nfld. on Feb. 27 to compete in the intermediate boxing events. In the meantime, it will be training camps and a dedicated workout schedule for Derocher who is from the Flying Dust First Nation in Saskatchewan.
"I feel happy for getting picked to the team. Everything happened so fast," said Derocher.
He ...