Local Sports

Canmore’s Luke Philp had no lack of motivation for the 2014/2015 WHL season.

Before the heady days of Elevation Place, the Vsion climbing gym, under the watchful eye of coach Dung Nguyen, stressed the importance of bouldering.

Organizers of a community project to build a new warming hut at the Canmore Nordic Centre are looking for volunteers to push the project forward.

The BCHS Bears rugby team has one mission this year: destroy Winston Churchill High. For the past three years, the Lethbridge-based high school has defeated the Bears in the Div.

A decade is an enormous milestone for a charity event. Surviving logistic challenges, volunteer turnover and waning motivations, few reach such a milestone.

Sakura Nakahara-Denton captured gold while Geerthana and Savina Somas both cracked the top five at the penultimate figure skating competition of the season.

It was, as far as ski mountaineering competitions go, almost a utopia. Morning temperatures at the start line were cool, but not cold. Blue skies gifted inspirational views. And fresh powder made the downhill legs of the race delightfully enjoyable.

Norwegian Tor-Arne Hetland is out as one of Canada’s cross-country ski team coaches, while head coaches Justin Wadsworth and Louis Bouchard received a vote of confidence to lead Canada’s world cup teams next season.

No sports program has brought more glory to Banff than BCHS rugby in recent years.

Slopes of Europe, brace yourself. Banff snowboarder Michelle Locke has become the first Canadian woman to earn a spot on the Free Ride World Tour.