Local Sports

Notes For much of the season, the Banff Bears men’s rugby squad tried to play a brash, smashmouth style of rugby, generously seasoned with its fair share of trash talk and chirping. This resulted in a .

For many, turning 30 means settling down, kids, mortgage payments and carving out a comfortable niche in which to grow old. Maybe buy a sensible car. When Canmore’s Michelle Katchur Roberts turned 30, she challenging the world.

In many ways, the Bow Valley Soccer League is the most important game in the region.

Notes When the 20th edition of the Canmore Eagles open the AJHL season on Sept. 12 at home against Whitecourt, their new captain could be the exact opposite of their last leader.

Glowing sunshine flooded the Bow Valley just in time for the final competition at a grassroots bowl jam last weekend. Bowlapalooza, a skateboard contest and live rock music mash-up, hit Canmore Skatepark, Saturday (Aug.

CrossFit Canmore is escaping the box for a run in the mountains and they want the public to join them for the jaunt. The Rocky Mountain Crusher race will make its debut at the Canmore Nordic Centre on Sept.

In the twilight of the third annual GranFondo Banff, the president of RBC GranFondo wants his ride to become a fixture in the Banff community for the next 50 years, and says it will help define Banff in the eyes of the cycling world.

Pro Xterra triathlete Mattieu Signoretty and two-time Olympic cross-country skier Brittany Webster proved their mettle as the fastest off-road athletes in the land by winning the 2014 Xterra Canmore Triathlon on Sunday (Aug.

The rising popularity of women’s rugby in Canada hasn’t been lost on Banff as the mountain town may have produced one of Alberta’s rising stars in the sport.

Local cycling phenoms Liah Harvie and Sarah Poidevin have been chosen to represent Canada overseas and race for a chance to compete at the Road World Cycling Championships in Ponferrada, Spain.