Local Sports

It’s been a pretty good year for the Rundle Mountain Cycling Club.

In an effort to encourage more children to embrace life on two wheels, Take a Kid Mountain Biking Day returns to the Canmore Nordic Centre on Saturday (Oct. 4).

One of the first instructors with the Rocky Mountain Adaptive Sports Centre was Pete Thompson.

Chris Stone won the biggest race of his running career and Pauline McLean claimed yet another Bow Valley title as the wave of humanity that is Melissa’s Road Race swept through Banff for its 35th year on Saturday, (Sept. 27).

After earning goose eggs in their last two Big Sky Conference games, the Bow Valley Wolverines will try to get their offence rolling as they host the Crescent Heights High Vikings in their only home game of the season on Friday (Oct.

After soaring over the great mountains of Alaska, Lawrence Grassi Middle School teacher and adventurer Karen Girouard will make her film debut in Lynsey Dyer’s all-female ski film, Pretty Faces.

Notes Charging through the final half kilometre of the junior women’s UCI world championships in Ponferrada, Spain, on Sept. 26, Banff ’s Liah Harvie is matching pace with the best in the world.

Inexperienced, but full of heart and hustle, the Canmore Collegiate High School junior varsity boys got off to a promising start with a trip to the semifinals in their home tournament of the year on Saturday (Sept. 20).

Jessica Kuzik tallied a hat trick and Casey Stanton added a pair of markers as the powerhouse CCHS Crusaders girls soccer club defeated Okotoks’ Foothills Composite Falcons 7-0 on Tuesday (Sept 23) at Millennium Field.

Cross Country Canada is losing too many developing female skiers and it has now tapped Olympian Madeleine Williams to chair the organization’s women’s committee to help solve the issue.