Although 17-year-old Ruby Lastiwka didn’t start playing football until she got into Grade 10, she is fitting right in as a member of the Ernest Manning senior boys football team.
Lastiwka says she was bound and determined to try out for the Ernest Manning junior football team.
“I heard about the meeting for the junior boys football team,” she said.
“I showed up with my parents, and my dad was like, ‘This might be a good thing before rugby season starts, so give it a shot,’ and I fell in love with it.
“There was nothing really telling me that I needed to play football, but I decided I wanted to, and when I want to make something happen, I make it happen.”
Lastiwka has been playing linebacker with the Griffins ever since. The year she’s playing on the senior team that will take on Notre Dame in the city …