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On the final day of the U21 Canadian Judo Championships in Richmond B.C.

Depth. Competition. Battles for jobs. These are elements that had long disappeared from Canmore Eagles training camps in years past, as the team eked out consecutive sub-.500 seasons.

Think for a moment about your job. Think of the long hours, the hard work, the co-worker hassles, the struggle to get ahead. Now, imagine if you want to keep your job your boss tells you that you have to be the best in the country.

Inexperienced but fast is the type of squad the Bow Valley Wolverines will march onto the field for the 2013 Big Sky Conference season opener, Saturday (Sept. 7) against Taber.

Canmore Eagles head coach and general manager Andrew Milne grew pretty tired of watching his team get pushed around last season, causing injuries to mount and a promising season to fade away.

Three Bow Valley climbers helped lead Team Canada to its best ever finish at the Youth World Climbing Championships in Victoria, B.C., Aug. 16-19.

Dozens of new roller derby fans sat side by side with shouting veterans to cheer on Bow Valley’s own derby squad, the Lady Macs as they faced the Revelstoke Derailers for the first ever roller derby bout in Banff at Fenlands Arena, Saturday (Aug.

Knees were dropped on chests, punches were thrown into faces and blood was spilled on the fabled home turf.

Nineteen years ago, Patch Bennet was one of 100 Canadian whitewater paddlers camping beside the wild Kananakis River, bent on taming its features in a long fiberglass boat.

Draped in provincial colours, grittily facing near impossible odds, the Bow Valley’s Canada Summer Games participants returned home Sunday (Aug. 18) vowing to train harder than ever to reach their goals.