Local teen, Carter Johnson, just returned from Langley BC, where he participated in an All Star Bantam Football Tournament. He was a member of the Calgary Selects, an All Star team selected from the Calgary Bantam Football Association (CBFA). Each year there are close to 650 players in the league who are evaluated throughout the season and eighty are chosen for a two day tryout at Shouldice Park in Mid-November, from that there is then a team of thirty players chosen.
For the second straight year, Carter has been chosen to play center on the offensive line for the Selects, there are typically only two to three players a year that are able to make this team on consecutive years. In previous years the team has travelled to St. Louis to play, but this season due to waning competition in St. Louis, the team traveled to Langley BC to play two all-star teams from the lower mainland area. These teams were made up of grade 9 and 10 players, where the Selects were all grade 9’s. The Selects came out victorious in all three games 51 – 0, 29 – 7, and finally 24 – 21 in a hard fought game against a group of kids from the BC All Stars who had just played for a Provincial High school championship, this against the Selects junior high players, is what is said to be the Greatest Select game in the 26 year history of the program.
Prior to the tournament, Carter was named a team Captain, and along with being the center on offensive plays he was also the long snapper for special teams. Shortly after the try outs for the Selects team, the CBFA held its annual awards banquet where Carter was named the co-recipient of the Outstanding Offensive Lineman award, the player he shared this award with is also a two time Select player. This is truly a great accomplishment as there are roughly one hundred offensive linemen in the league.
Carter is a product of the Chestermere Chiefs Atom and Pee Wee football program and the Calgary Cyclones Bantam program. He will play Midget football this spring for the Northern Raiders under some of the coaching staff he played for this past summer where he was chosen to play for and again named one of the Captains on the Alberta Summer Games team. Academically strong and goal oriented, Carter will play high school football in Calgary next September and has his sights set on playing
