After years of hiatus, the Quesnel Minor Football club is fielding a team once again.
“What we’re really trying to do is develop football in the North,” Mike Keryluik, the driving force behind the league, said.
It is still early in the season, so numbers are not concrete yet, but Keryluik is optimisitic about putting together an atom and peewee team to compete against Prince George and Vanderhoof though both could use some more players.
The junior-bantam team is desperate for more players.
Ideally, the league is looking for 13 players and up for each team.
The club is designed to filter up into highschool ball and has help from the Correlieu team.
Currently, with families on summer break, the league is down players, but hopes that as the school season starts up and families filter home that more players were funnel into the program.
“We’re hearing more and more, ‘yeah I want to play but we’re away right now,” Keryluik said.
Currently, the club is calling itself the Cariboo Bombers in homage to the bombers that flew in to put out the Cariboo high school fire, which is where the team plays. The club’s equipment room is the only thing left of the school.
The season kicks off on Sept. 7 in Prince George with a 40 year anniversary celebration and games against P.G. and Vanderhoof.
