AINSWORTH READY FOR NEXT CHAPTER

By: Mark Booth

Delta Optimist

The next chapter of Dylan Ainsworth’s football career will be taking him to the CFL heartland.

The defensive end from Tsawwassen was selected 11th overall by the Saskatchewan Roughriders in Tuesday’s college draft. Ainsworth was considered a top CFL prospect after three productive years at the University of Western Ontario where he earned CIS Second Team All-Canadian honours last season.

“I have heard (about their fans) but I don’t think I really know what I am getting myself into until I actually go there,” said Ainsworth who watched the draft from his Tsawwassen home with family and friends.

Ainsworth grew up in the South Delta Rams community program before heading across the street to South Delta Secondary where he helped the Sun Devils win their first-ever B.C. championship in 2008. A year later he was a provincial all-star and would head to Western with teammate Sam Livingston.

He still has two years of CIS eligibility but is close to finishing his degree and will immediately turn pro.

http://www.delta-optimist.com/news/tsawwassen-s-ainsworth-feeling-rider-pride-1.1063690

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cflsteve
10 years ago

Rod,First I wana say I love the sportscage especially Rider mondays and football fridays due to being a huge CFL fan living in Philadelphia PA area in the states.Listing to the open mike about the CBA negotiations I thought the one caller had a decent thought on TSN getting involved as a possible mediator.With the report of the players only getting a 100K raise per team for 900K total is clearly riduculous.I got to crunching some numbers and TSN may be able to persuade both sides to accept this.A raise in the Cap of 400-500K per team to start would… Read more »