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Ashton Chase
Hitsman Besner
By Victoria Klassen
By Victoria Klassen
Chase Besner plays offensive
Ashton Hitsman plays
line as a left tackle. He began
defensive line with the
playing with the Wildcats as a
Wildcats. He got into the six-year-old and played until he
sport after watching a was 11. He took a break from
football game and telling his football and then the Covid-19
mother he wanted to play. As pandemic hit, putting a pause on
most sports. In grade 10, he made
a six-year-old, Ashton began his
football career with the Wildcats his high school’s varsity football team. Then he tried out for the
Wildcats’ U18 OSFL team as an underage player and ended up
and hasn’t looked back since. making the team as a starter. It was a good season last year and
he won offensive rookie of the year. He played his grade 11 year
“I enjoy all of the hitting, and of the brothers that I have
of football at St. Joseph’s Catholic Secondary School before the
made, through the sport of football,” said Ashton.
Wildcats season began.
A highlight from his time with the Wildcats was being “What I enjoy most about the sport is that no matter what you
on the first Wildcats team to win the A Cup. He said it’s have going on in your life, when you put the pads on the only
great to see that the younger groups have carried this on thing you need to worry about is beating who is in front of you,”
said Chase.
and continue to win.
Chase went into the season looking forward to building bonds
Ashton said this season with the Wildcats is going well. with his coaches and teammates that will last a lifetime.
He sees improvement in his own playing and said that the “I say as a team we have learned to work with each other. We are
team is continuously working hard towards a common a young team, and we are building that chemistry to take us far,”
goal. Chase expressed.
He was part of the Wildcats team that won the 2015 A Cup—
“I enjoy being in the great Wildcats organization because
making Wildcats history.
we are all family on this team and we all want to win
“I enjoy playing with the Wildcats because it has given me so
that ring,” said Ashton. “My next season I’m going to many opportunities in my life that I didn’t know were possible,”
come back better than I was this season. Day by day I said Chase. One of Chase’s main goals is having the opportunity
get better at what I am already good at, and hopefully to play university football.
will get another ring next season.” Chase had one last thing to add: “We are WILDCATS. We are
WILDCATS. We are WILDCATS.”
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