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Taylor Haux excited to take softball skills to Alberta

A talented softball player from Estevan has committed to play for the Southern Alberta Institute of Technology (SAIT) Trojans, starting this fall.
Taylor Haux
Taylor Haux has committed to play softball at the Southern Alberta Institute of Technology. Photo submitted

A talented softball player from Estevan has committed to play for the Southern Alberta Institute of Technology (SAIT) Trojans, starting this fall.

Taylor Haux, who largely plays third base and catcher, will join the Trojans while studying nursing at Mount Royal University in Calgary. The softball program is actually shared by SAIT and Mount Royal.

She noted that it’s also more of a club team, so they won’t be playing in the Alberta Collegiate Athletic Conference (ACAC) like other SAIT teams. Instead, they play against programs like the University of Regina and the University of Saskatchewan, meaning she’ll get to play against some teams closer to home.

The Trojans will also face other programs from across Western Canada.

The strength of the nursing program at Mount Royal and the calibre of the softball team at SAIT contributed to her decision. Also, her brother, Wyatt, is a member of the men’s basketball program at SAIT, where he has won two provincial titles, and Taylor Haux has been able to talk to him about what to expect.

“It does help a lot, having some family there. I know Calgary is super far away from Estevan, and I like to have some family there with me,” she told the Mercury.

It will also be a big step up in competition.

“In Estevan, I played in provincials and house leagues, and for my provincials I played B leagues,” she said. “There’s another league ahead of that, but then university is even higher. It’s a lot faster ball and a lot more competition there.”

Haux said she loves softball because it’s a fun sport to play and she likes being outdoors.

“I did get offered (a chance to play for) other places for basketball, and I just thought softball is more of a fit for me, and what I enjoy more,” she said.

The Estevan Softball Association is where she found her love for the sport. As she grew up, she started playing in Carnduff, Carlyle or Weyburn because they had more players in those communities.

Haux loves that each play in softball offers the opportunity to have something different, and she never knows what is coming at her.

As for whether she would try to play basketball at the collegiate level, Haux believes it would be difficult to play that sport in addition to softball while maintaining her studies in nursing, because the program is very demanding.