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The Drumheller Dragons made short work of the Canmore Eagles in Game 3 of their AJHL second round playoff series with a 4-0 shutout win on Monday (March 17) in Drumheller.

Canmore’s Brian McKeever proved there’s more than one way to crack a golden goose egg.

Three years ago, the Canmore Eagles made a concerted effort to place more local talent on their roster. Since then, six Canmore-born players have cracked the junior A roster and began to develop into legitimate players.

Seven years ago, Braden O’Toole was identified as a raw but promising volleyball talent at Canmore Collegiate High School. Today, he’s the best college player in Canada.

She’s home and admittedly tired after two months of nearly continuous travelling, but Canmore ice climber and ACMG mountain guide Jen Olson says she feels proud and grateful for having represented Canada at the Olympic Games in Sochi, Russia.

The tension was so unbearable, Mark Arendz couldn’t watch. First across the line in the staggered start at the 2014 Sochi Paralympics, the 24-year-old para-biathlete had laid down an impressive time of 19:14 on the 7.

Mark Arendz shot his way into the record books to become the first Canadian to win multiple Paralympic Games medals in biathlon with a bronze medal showing at the 2014 Winter Paralympics in Sochi, Russia.

In a sport where Russian billionaires back competitors and there are massive European sponsorship dollars, the Canadian National Biathlon Team should have no business even sharing the same course.

The pipeline of promising young Canadian biathletes runs directly through Canmore and homegrown sharpshooter Aidan Millar is leading the torrent.

Practice makes perfect, and Canmore Collegiate High School’s senior girl’s basketball team took the old saying to heart as they held an exhibition game on Feb. 23 against Rundle College.