YQL Stories Lethbridge Sport

This YQL story features the now-former Mayor of Lethbridge Chris Spearman. Chris served as the mayor of Lethbridge from 2013 until 2021 and shared his personal and parental experience with active living with us. 

For this edition of Your Quality Life we were lucky enough to have a chance to talk with Husky First Charger. Husky comes from the Blood reserve outside of Lethbridge. He is a skateboarding enthusiast and proud father.

For our fourth edition of Your Quality Life we were lucky enough to have a chance to talk with Lori Harasem. Lori works at the City of Lethbridge in the Recreation and Culture Department and is part of a very active family with a husband that is an ultra-distance runner, and three active children.

Lori didn't have much experience with sport and active living through much of her adult life until the age of 40. Since then her lifestyle has drastically changed and has opened up many opportunities for her. This has left her with a wealth of stories and experiences that we were lucky enough to have her share with us. 

For our third edition of Your Quality Life we were able to talk to Chad Chiefmoon. Chiefmoon comes from the Blood reserve outside of Lethbridge and serves on the Lethbridge Sport Council Board of Directors. Chad has been very open and willing to talk about many of the struggles he has faced in life, and the paths he has taken to overcome them. For Chad, his experience with the sport of lacrosse has been more than just a game, but a very deep, spiritual experience that has given him both a path to healing and to connect with his culture.

Welcome to the second edition of our YQL series. The story for this installment comes from our interview with Caroline Reimer also-known-as “Coach Meow”. Caroline Reimer has spent the past 11 years of her life involved with the sport of Roller Derby at the Lethbridge Roller Derby Guild. 9 years ago Caroline began coaching and for the last 5 years Caroline has taken up the head coaching position. Her career in roller derby has opened up some incredible opportunities for her as for the last two years Caroline has held the position of assistant coach for Team Canada in the Junior Roller Derby Open Division.

For our first ever issue, we were lucky enough to interview Chantelle Erickson. Chantelle is a certified personal trainer at Kinetic Indoor Cycle and Fitness, has been there for the last 7 years and worked as a fitness professional for 8. She is also a freelance writer for Canadian Running magazine and works as a running coach at Personal Peak. Outside of her professional career Chantelle has also taken up Ultramarathon running and has ran distances over 50km, 100km, along with a variety of marathons, relays, and other endurance events.

What may not be immediately apparent when talking to Chantelle, as she exudes the passion, positivity, and a wealth of knowledge indicative of a well seasoned runner, is that running and fitness didn’t become a part of her life until college. Chantelle first got introduced to active living at the age of 21 in college when her roommate invited her to come to the gym. That single invitation led Chantelle to embark on a path that would go on to reshape her life entirely.