Storm gearing up for new campaign - Winkler Times

Storm gearing up for new campaign
After a fourth place finish in the Manitoba Major Soccer League’s 12-team First Division in 2005, the Winkler Storm are gearing up for a better season.

By Ashleigh Viveiros
Friday May 12, 2006

Winkler Times — After a fourth place finish in the Manitoba Major Soccer League’s 12-team First Division in 2005, the Winkler Storm are gearing up for a better season.
With a pre-season practice pool of as many as 30 players to choose from, coach Henry Enns is optimistic about the club’s chance to field a stronger team this summer.
“There’s a huge interest (in the team),” he said earlier this week. “The guys have prepared themselves very well physically. Now it’s up to us to make the team.”
The team has been holding tryouts for the last few weeks, and Enns plans to formulate his 2006 team this weekend. While there could be quite a few new faces on the 18-man team, Enns estimates many of last year’s players will be returning.
“We have a couple of older players coming back and some younger ones as well,” he said.
The Storm will have a fair bit of competition in their bid to climb higher in the standings.
While first and second place finishers United Weston and Eritrean move up to the Premier Division this year, the third place Southend Celtics - who beat out the Winkler club by just three points last year - will remain in the First Division with the Storm.
The club will also have to contend with the Winnipeg Dynamo Kyiv and Polonia S.C. clubs - the two former Premier level teams who are dropping down into the First Division after bottoming out in Premier last year.
“We know it’s going to be competitive,” said Enns. “But we will try hard.”
The MMSL schedule is due out next week, with the season slated to begin after the May long weekend