For the fourth consecutive summer, a Swift Current Innovation Credit Union U18 Female AAA Wildcats player was off to the Hockey Canada U18 Summer Showcase Development Camp.

This past summer it was Moosomin product Ava Metzger that received the call to attend the camp in Calgary from July 29 to August 5.

"At first when I got the email I was like 'wow is this for me?' but yeah it was good," she said. "Obviously as a kid, I'd just shoot pucks on the driveway and I'd have the one Hockey Canada puck and then that's the first thing I thought of when I got the email. Pretty awesome to be one step closer to that goal of playing on team Canada."

The second-year Wildcats forward received a pile of feedback while at the camp through on-ice and video sessions, games, and meetings.

"They're really big on habits, everything came back to our habits, so that was one of the big takeaways," she said.

According to Metzger the first day of the camp didn't start off well, as a teammate was in close contact with a false positive on the flight to Calgary forcing the entire team to be sidelined.

"So we ended up having to quarantine the first day, our tests came back negative, so it was good, it was just another rest day for us," she said.

Past Wildcats to attend the camp are Baylee Kirwan in 2020, Taylor Lind in 2019, and Taylor Kirwan in 2018.