Twin brothers in Saskatchewan rack up impressive stats in sports
Saskatchewan's Bright Black Future: Mack and Wilson Reimche
Twin brothers Mack and Wilson Reimche are scoring big on the Saskatchewan sports scene.
The 12-year-old boys are only in Grade 7, but they've already been very successful in their respective sports of soccer and trampoline.
Mack is No. 4 on the leaderboard in the Saskatoon U13 premier boys division. And his brother, Wilson, is a trampolinist in Saskatoon who competes nationally, provincially and locally.
Wilson's been so successful, he was featured on a Cheerios ad for the Summer Olympics last year.
"I've been interested in playing sports since pretty much since I was born," Wilson said.
He began his journey as a competitive trampolinist at the age of eight when he was introduced to the sport at a summer camp. Since then, Wilson's been very dedicated, training about four days or14 hoursevery week. He is at Level 5 at the national level in Double Mini Trampoline and Trampoline.
This year, he made Team Sask. He has more than a dozen medals under his belt, including: third place in his category at the Pegasus Classic, a provincial competition held in Calgary earlier this month, second place at Elite Canada 2021, a national competition hosted virtually by Gymnastics Canada in September 2021, and first place at Syncro Prairie Invitational 2020, a local competition held in Regina in March 2020.
Wilson's goal is to compete at the Trampoline Gymnastics World Championships one day.
While Wilson is soaring to great heights in an individual sport, his brother Mack is raising the bar playing soccer.
Mack started to take soccer seriously when he turned nine. He is consistently in the top five for points in U13 premier level boys soccer in Saskatoon and he plays defender