The old saying goes that you have to be lucky to be good and good to be lucky.
Luck really didn’t have anything to do with the first home run hit during game play at the Blue Jays Academy Canadian Futures Showcase, which came off the bat of Vauxhall Academy product Hudson Nikkel.
Read More Showcasing with … Hudson NikkelNo stage seems to be too big for Calum Andersen.
Whether it’s playing for the Vauxhall Academy Jets, Baseball Alberta at national events, the Baseball Canada Junior National Team, or the Area Codes Games, the 16-year-old right-hander just seems so calm, cool and collected.
Read More Cool CalumHe’s built a lot of what you see in Alberta’s baseball scene today.
From Prairie Baseball Academy and Vauxhall Academy to the Okotoks Dawgs and Badlands Academy in Oyen, Blair Kubicek’s fingerprints are all over it.
He’s been named the Canadian Baseball Network’s Coach of the Year.
Read More ‘Coach Kubi’ Recognized by CBNWill Zielinski was sitting in his living room with family by his side watching the picks pass in the 2026 Major League Baseball draft.
He knew there was a chance he could be selected and was certainly hoping to be.
Matt Betts of Canadian Baseball Network has more on Zielinski’s story.
Read More Where There’s a WillWill Zielinski can lay claim to something no one else can at The Road to Okotoks.
The Victoria native and Vauxhall Academy two-way standout was among the 12 Canadians taken in last weekend’s Major League Baseball Draft, as he was chosen in the 20th round by the Detroit Tigers.
He’s our focus as we wrap up Day #2 from the Morneau Cup championship.
Read More On The Road with … Will ZielinskiThey were the only team to punch their ticket to The Road to Okotoks straight out of the Prairie Qualifiers.
With a semi-final win over Team Saskatchewan, the Vauxhall Academy Jets put themselves into the final and, with the top three teams qualifying for the main event, it guaranteed their spot.
The schedule is now set and the Jets will be looking to pick up where they left off.
Read More Vauxhall’s Road to OkotoksWe are just a couple of weeks away from The Road to Okotoks.
The inaugural Morneau Cup championship will see 16 teams duke it out over five days to settle some bets on the best academy program in the country.
We take a look at the results from the draft, the pools and schedule, and more leading up to the big event.
Read More Hitching a Ride to OkotoksAdam Macko is a major leaguer.
From first discovering baseball in the first grade at school in Bratislava, the capital of Slovakia; to winning a Little League championship in Ireland; to teaching himself how to pitch by watching YouTube videos of David Price and Justin Verlander; to training in Vauxhall in southern Alberta, Macko has now realized his dream of playing Major League Baseball (MLB).
Read More Macko in the MajorsKalem Haney has put his name in the University of Mary record books.
The Lethbridge native and Vauxhall Academy grad put an end to his collegiate career by setting the Marauders’ all-time records for hits and runs scored.
Read More Hail MaryHe’s waited longer than he had hoped to represent Canada.
And when he finally gets the opportunity to do it at the World Baseball Classic, Adam Macko plans to soak it all in.
Read More Fulfilling a Dream