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Boston Pizza RDP Athlete of the Week for September 16, 2024

Grant Johnson had an outstanding weekend on the pitch, helping the Red Deer Polytechnic Kings Soccer team earn a win and a tie on the road. Using his speed, Johnson was a dangerous offensive force, contributing a total of two goals and two assists.

In Saturday’s 3-2 victory over the Medicine Hat College Rattlers, Red Deer’s Johnson scored twice and was named the Kings Player of the Game.

Then on Sunday, Johnson, a Computer Programming Diploma student, assisted on both goals in the RDP Kings’ 2-2 draw with the Lethbridge Polytechnic Kodiaks.

The RDP Kings (1-1-2) sit in third spot in the Alberta Colleges Athletic Conference (ACAC) Men’s Soccer South Division with five points.

Mr. Mikes RDP Athlete of the Week for September 25, 2023

After a multi-point game in an extremely crucial match against the Ambrose University Lions, striker Grant Johnson is this week's Kings Athlete of the Week.

In the team’s first three games of the season, he only had seven shots on net without registering a point. But Johnson put his team on his shoulder this past weekend as he picked up the assist on the opening goal of the game and added two goals which included the game-winner in the 85^th minute.

With this goal, the Kings would pick up their first victory of the season with a 4-3 final against the Lions. This win kept them in the playoff picture as the team was sitting without a win in their first three matches.

Johnson’s game-winning goal came five minutes after the Lions scored their third consecutive goal to tie it up at 3 in the late stages of the match.

It was not an easy win, to say the least. The Polytechnic started the match well scoring three straight goals. But after a Lions goal that was scored from their own half-circle, seconds after the Kings made it 3-0, Ambrose University made it a much closer match as they would score two more to tie it up in the 80^th minute.

Five minutes, midfielder Ajdin Sarcevic would send the Legal Assistant student-athlete off to the races which is where Johnson put the nail in the coffin and scored his second goal of the game to help his team to a 4-3 win.

He was later named the Kings player of the match with two goals and one assist.

The Kings will be back in action this Saturday as they take on the Olds College Broncos at home with a kick-off after 2 pm which happens to be their only game this weekend.