{"id":639153,"date":"2026-04-30T18:59:19","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T18:59:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/639153\/"},"modified":"2026-04-30T18:59:19","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T18:59:19","slug":"strathmore-athlete-drafted-by-calgary-stampeders-strathmorenow-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/639153\/","title":{"rendered":"Strathmore athlete drafted by Calgary Stampeders &#8211; StrathmoreNow.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A football player from Strathmore is taking the next step in his career after being selected in the Canadian Football League draft.<\/p>\n<p>Jack Warrack was chosen 71st overall by the Calgary Stampeders in the 2026 CFL Canadian Draft.<\/p>\n<p>Related Stories:<\/p>\n<p>Warrack plays offensive line and most recently suited up for the <a href=\"https:\/\/huskies.usask.ca\/sports\/football\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Saskatchewan Huskies<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The draft selection was announced on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/photo\/?fbid=1546561646828500&amp;set=a.825370428947629\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Career began in Strathmore<\/p>\n<p>Warrack began playing football at the age of seven.<\/p>\n<p>He later played for the Strathmore High School Spartans before being recruited\u00a0to <a href=\"https:\/\/strathmorenow.com\/articles\/local-teen-heading-to-prestigious-football-program\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">join the\u00a0University of Saskatchewan Huskies<\/a>\u00a0as an offensive lineman.<\/p>\n<p>While with the Huskies, Warrack competed in the 2025\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/strathmorenow.com\/articles\/strathmores-brady-johansen-heads-to-vanier-cup-with-huskies\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Vanier Cup<\/a>\u00a0alongside teammate Brady Johansen.<\/p>\n<p>His selection in the CFL draft marks a significant milestone, with the regular season set to begin in June.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/strathmorenow.com\/features\/daily-news\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sign up<\/a>\u00a0to\u00a0get the latest local news headlines delivered directly to your inbox every afternoon.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A football player from Strathmore is taking the next step in his career after being selected in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":639154,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194293],"tags":[49,2798,48],"class_list":["post-639153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-calgary","tag-ca","tag-calgary","tag-canada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=639153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639153\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/639154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=639153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=639153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=639153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}