McFarland: Friesen’s success inspired by late high school friend

“Remember why.”

You will find those two words scrawled into the inside of Carson Friesen’s hat as he takes to the field for the Edmonton Collegiate Hawks.

More noticeably, the outfielder will take a moment an at-bat to etch an “E” into the dirt beside the batter’s box.

They are a couple of ways that Friesen honours one of his boyhood friends, Ethan Symtaniuk, after losing him to suicide in 2019.

The pair were in grade nine in Saskatoon when it happened. Seven years later, his old pal is always on his mind.”

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