Jacoby Hotain, age 15, from sioux valley Dakota Nation,resides in Brandon, Manitoba. Mother, Larissa Hotain is the daughter of the late Veronica Hotain and Grant Wasicuna.
Jacoby has started playing community football in 2023, it is where he found his love for football and continued to high school football. Jacoby made the JV team in his grade 9 year. All his hard work on and off the field has paid off when he was asked to join the Varsity squad his first year at Crocus Plains, which is a great accomplishment. Jacoby was later awarded Junior Varsity Lineman of the year.
Jacoby’s season did not end there, he went on to try out for the Manitoba Selects. A travel football team out of Winnipeg. The team traveled across the United States to compete with other teams. Their first stop was in Grand Forks, where he played at the UND stadium. He later played in Minneapolis and went on to play in Las Vegas where he got to watch the Las Vegas Raiders play his favourite team, the Kansas City Chiefs. The last stretch of his season, the team travelled to Miami and Orlando Florida where they won the championship.
His dedication and love for the game is unparalleled and we are very proud of him. We also would like to thank Sioux valley’s Jordan’s Principle and Dakota Tiwahe Services for their continued support to make everything possible. Lastly we would like to thank the kunshi’s for their support and we would like to invite friends and family out to watch him play in April when he joins the Westman Youth Football Association.
