The athletes competing in week two of the Canada Winter Games in Red Deer, Alta., arrived over the weekend. The second week will have more Yukon athletes competing across a variety of sports.

Before we look at the second week, two freestyle skiers competed in the half pipe event on Friday night. Two Yukon athletes competed. Max Logan’s run through the half pipe was good for 21st. Chris Arsenault came 25th.

Also on Friday, the speed skating wrapped up with two Yukon athletes competing in the short track - 3000-metre points race. Micah Taggart-Cox placed 27th. Caius Shepherd Taggart-Cox grabbed the 44th spot.

On Sunday, the girls’ hockey team got their games underway. In their first match, they took on Newfoundland and Labrador. It was not the desired start for Team Yukon as they dropped the game 15-1. The lone Yukon goal was scored by Zoe Leas.

The team will get the opportunity to get into the win column later today when they play Team P.E.I.

Squash also got underway Sunday. In the individual male competition, Mackenzie Cameron took to the court against Neel Ismail of Ontario.

Before heading to Red Deer, Cameron predicted he would play Ontario first.

“I’m playing in the singles and team division so I am probably going to play Ontario in the first round of the singles,” said Cameron. “That is going to be a lot of fun, usually they have the best players from there. It’s going to be a great experience all around.”

Cameron dropped the best of five match 3-0. The team competition also got underway on Sunday. The squash team members are Cameron, Ivan Johnson, Rannon Johnson, and Isaac Maddocks.

The team took on the team from Quebec. All four members played and lost their matches. Quebec took the match 4-0.

The Yukon team will take on Manitoba today at the Gary W. Harris Canada Games Centre.

Monday is going to be a busy day for Yukon athletes as they begin their competitions.

In alpine skiing Super G the Yukon will be well represented with, Greta Gladwin, Charlie Hawes, Wesley Vangel, Clayton Michael Chapman, Naoise Dempsey, and Orin Gladwin, all competing.

Male singles badminton got started this morning. Lukas Sebastian Kobler and Austin Meng Au dropped their opening matches. Anton Menzel will play later his afternoon.

Female singles badminton will commence after the boys have finished playing. Lily Kremer, Gabrielle Belanger, and Shayla Kremer will be representing the Yukon.

The cross-country skiers will be out on the trails this afternoon. The girls will be racing in a 7.5-kilometre free interval start. The boys’ race will be 10-kilometres.

The snowboard event snowboardcross will be happening this afternoon at the Canyon Ski Resort. Syth Charchun and Ethan Davy will be the two Yukon boarders on the slopes.

For those fans of archery and judo, you will have to wait one more day as they begin competition on Tuesday.

Archer Vincent Menard spoke to the Star at the CWG pep rally. He will be shooting with a compound bow and says the key to archery is to move as little as possible.

“Archery is a sport where the one who wins does the least movement,” said Menard. “So compared to hockey or biathlon where you work as hard as you can, archery you don’t want to do anything that gets your heart beat up.”

Aside from the competition aspect of the Games, Menard is excited about the opportunity to make new friends from across the country.

“It’s gonna be great for meeting new people, it’s going to be awesome,” said Menard. “Doing something I love, the sport of archery, and talking to new people, you can’t do better than that.”

In the first week of competition Kyran Allen was the Yukon’s highest finishing athlete. Allen just missed the podium in the freestyle skiing big air event coming in fourth. His teammate Niko Rodden finished eighth.

Biathlete Jake Draper was the Yukon’s most consistent athlete in the first week. He competed in all four of the biathlon events placing outside of the top 10 only once when he placed 11th in the 12.5-kilometre individual.

Artistic swimmer Ella Laliberty had the 10th best score in the solo event. Her final score combined her technical routine and her free routine for a total of 109.0780.