Local Sports

Although Jan Hudec’s exclusion from the national ski team has created the biggest stir, the Bow Valley will still have a presence on the big club.

The Banff Bears boys’ rugby squad overcame a late rush from the Highwood Mustangs in a match that could have teetered either way, last week. The Bears couldn’t have asked for a better start at home on May 12 at the Rec Grounds.

The Bears men’s rugby team couldn’t have asked for a better way to open its 40th anniversary Calgary Rugby Union season, as the Banff squad dismantled the Calgary Rams 64-0 at the Banff Rec Grounds, Saturday (May 14).

The Bears tore through the Mustangs at the Banff Rec Grounds. The Banff Community High School girls rugby team’s potent offence and clamp-down defence made for a one-sided affair in a 62-7 home opener victory against the Highwood Mustangs, May 12.

The Salmon Arm Salty Dog Enduro mountain bike race is the classic start to the fat tire season. Run on British Columbia terrain, winners traditionally receive a pie for surviving six hours of early season riding.

It’s been an unusual schedule for Canmore Collegiate Crusaders boys soccer to start the season.

Minutes before Team Brick was announced, Finn McLaughlin was a ball of nerves. Sitting in the dressing room at West Edmonton Mall after the final tryout, he waited and waited for coach Steve Serdachny to speak to them.

Mounds of paper and plastic cups strewn along racecourses have been an embarrassing environmental problem for years at sporting events. But a local race series is finally putting its foot down to crush the cup.

When the nightmarish images of smoke and fire began to billow out of Fort McMurray, the sting was particularly acute for one local athlete.

Cross Country Canada is still without a head coach, but that didn’t stop it from naming its national teams with an eye on the 2018 and 2022 Winter Olympics.