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Wednesday December 16 2015 19 SPORTS ARCTIC WINTER GAMES By DALI CARMICHAEL Enthusiasmforthe2016ArcticWinterGames reached a peak in the NWT last weekend as athletes traveled to the North and South Slave Regionsforthefirstroundoftryoutsforthein- ternationalmulti-sporttournamentsettotake place Mar. 6 to 11 2016. Futsal volleyball and bantam hockey play- ers as well as cross country skiers headed to Yellowknife to show their stuff with dreams of traveling to the games in Nuuk Greenland driving their efforts. MeanwhilealittlefarthersouthinHayRiver biathletesonskisandsnowshoestrudgedtheir way through the Hay River Cross Country Ski Club Nordic Centre. Simultaneouslybasketballplayerspracticed theirlayupsdowntheroadhopingtheirmoves would land them a spot on the team. A few hours farther down the road in Fort Smith girls hockey players hit the ice of the towns gleaming refurbished arena. Thenextroundoftryoutswilltakeplacefrom Jan.14to16withArcticsportsandsnowshoeing trials in Inuvik wrestling in Hay River table tennis in Fort Providence Dene games in Fort Smith and badminton and snowboarding try- outs in Yellowknife. NWT cultural delegates named Inadditiontotheplethoraofathletescoaches chaperones and mission staff the NWT will also be represented in Nuuk with cultural per- formingdelegatesselectedbySportNorthear- lier this month. AnneandElizabethThomasandSophieand GraceClarkmakeuptheDoubleTrebleFiddlers twosetsoftwinsfromYellowknifewhoplaytra- ditional fiddle tunes. The lifelong friends have been playing fiddle together since they were eight years old. Performer Tiffany Ayalik of Yellowknife will co-chaperone and work with the NWT youth performersduringaworkshopprograminNuuk. DuringthegamestheTeamNWTperform- ers will present and collaborate with other cultural delegations at the Katuaq Cultural Centre among other venues. Team NWT looks for the best in 2016 AWG trials PhotocourtesyoftheHayRiverSkiClub PhotoDaliCarmichaelPhotocourtesyofTeamNWT PhotocourtesyoftheNWTSoccerAssociation Girls hockey tryouts took place at the newly renovated arena in Fort Smith.Skiiers stage during Arctic Winter Games trials last weekend. Billy Lloyd Prodromidis from Fort McPherson gives it his all at the snowshoe biathlon trials in Hay River. Yellowknifes Cole Clinton and Behchokos Ahri Ekendia go head to head at the futsal tryouts.