Five of the six athletes North Wake Martial Arts sent to the Sask BJJ provincial championships came home with medals. (Facebook/North Wake Martial Arts)

By Nick Nielsen

North Wake and Renegades

Local MMA practitioners bring home medals from Jiu-Jitsu provincials

Dec 10, 2025 | 5:09 PM

Moose Jaw was the site of the 2025 SaskBJJ Provincial Championships on the weekend, and a total of six athletes from Prince Albert came back with medals.

Out of the Renegade Grappling Academy, Mark Hillock competed in the Men’s Gi Purple belt Ultra Heavy Division. This is the fifth time Hillock has competed, and he said this was one of the most competitive tournaments he’s even been a part of as he had to compete against higher skill levels than he’s used to.

“I initially signed up for like a blue ultra heavy. There was no one in my weight class, so they merged three different divisions into one. So two belts higher and then another brown belt that was at 185, neither of them had anyone in their weight class. Then there’s two purple belt ultra heavy, so we got all merged into that weight division and I competed against one of the purple belts my first match.”

Hillock managed to win his first two matches via submission, and his gold medal match went the distance where he won via points. After his round robin competition, he also competed in an ‘absolute’ bracket, where he would face off with anyone in any weight class with any belt. In that competition, he won his first match before losing out of the bracket in his second.

Also at the tournament were members of North Wake Martial Arts who had six kids competing in different weight classes.

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Weston Lara picked up silver in the boys white belt 7-8 years age group, Kai Parenteau won silver in the white belt boys 13-14 division, Henry Jubenville won gold in the grey belt boys 7-8 years group, Aurora Jubenville won gold in the grey belt girls 7-8 division, and Hunter Hill won silver in the blue belt juvenile boys division.

Cahli Parenteau was the sixth member of the club to attend and finished just off the podium in fourth in the grey belt 11-12 years old group.

“It’s really nice to see. Lets me know that we’re on the right track,” said North Wake Martial Arts Head Coach Lucien Phillips.

While provincial BBJ competitions were going on in Moose Jaw, another member of North Wake was in Kamloops competing at the Tae-Kwon-Do Western Canadian Championships over the weekend. Jared Poirier competed in three different disciplines; sparring where he physically fought his opponent, patterns where you have to display a predetermined technique in front of the judges, and special technique which is a board breaking competition.

Poirier earned gold in the patterns competition, while he finished with silver in both sparring and special technique.

“This was his first time into the adult division as well,” said Phillips. “He competed in the adult division and it was a round robin and he came out in second place.”