Local Sports

In order to develop Banff’s next big skier, the Banff Alpine Racers and Bow Valley Quikies are looking to the past.

For many years, high performance sport has lost large contingents of athletes to post secondary education.

Canmore judoka Erin Morgan bounced back from a disappointing trip overseas with a win at the Quebec Open on Nov. 2.

Battling through six-foot waves and a high-speed bike crash, two-time Olympian Brittany Webster shocked herself by winning the Xterra off-road triathlon world championships amateur women’s title in Hawaii, Sunday (Oct. 26).

It promises to be a very ghoulish Halloween for the Canmore Eagles with back-to-back home games against the 13-2-2 Camrose Kodiaks on Friday (Oct. 31) and Saturday (Nov. 1).

Perhaps it was a Halloween-inspired Invasion of the Body Snatchers theme, but something remarkably strange happened on the Bow Valley Wolverines’ way to the playoffs.

Don’t look now, but the underdog Banff Community High School girls junior varsity volleyball team is on a tear.

If Frozen Thunder were a vicious, skier-eating kraken sated only by the glory of battle, biathletes Rosanna Crawford and Zina Kocher would be the first to charge the creature head on, demonblood sword in hand and the honour of their people at stake.

We need to talk about Devon Kershaw’s hair … In a sport dominated by square-jawed, well-manicured Scandinavians, Kershaw is easily recognizable by a wild mop of hippie hair flowing from behind a red headband.

Americans Andy Newell and Ida Sargent christened Frozen Thunder with a pair of gold medals in the first classic sprint race of the year, but several strong Canadian results kept local coaches happy at the Canmore Nordic Centre on Friday (Oct. 24).