Local Sports

Coming off a season where they finished second in the province in Tier II high school rugby, the Banff Community High School Bears boys are looking for another strong season.

Massimo ‘Max’ Carca, who helped lead the Italian ski team to multiple World Cup, world championship and Olympic titles, has been named head coach of Canada’s men’s alpine technical team.

Following up last year’s league and zone double, the Canmore Collegiate High School Crusaders boys soccer team are hard at work in preseason training before Wednesday’s (May 1) home opener.

Another season of Bow Valley Basketball League action has come to an end, with Boston Pizza downing the PEKA Warriors 75-65 in the final, Saturday (April 20) at Canmore Collegiate High School.

When casting about for valley personalities who personify athletics, competition and community spirit, would anybody be more appropriate than Olympic cross-country silver medallist Sara Renner and World Cup alpine champion Thomas Grandi? Unlikely, es

With a number of spots needing to be filled for the 2013-14 AJHL campaign, the Canmore Eagles hosted about 130 hopefuls at a spring camp held at Alex Kaleta Arena, last weekend.

Sport, says Chris Neve, has a lot to teach youth. And as the newly named head coach of Canada’s junior climbing team, Neve hopes to help athletes learn as much as they can – while he, too, learns plenty in the process.

While it’s the end of the ski season for many in the Bow Valley, it wasn’t for 206 young ski racers that gathered in Lake Louise for the 10th annual Doug Meyers Invitational last weekend, April 13-14.

One of Biathlon Canada’s most respected athletes, Melanie Schultz, has chosen to retire from the sport in order to pursue a career.

Summer hockey schools, women’s hockey and booze in the stands. Those are the lynchpins of the Canmore Eagles’ new strategy to pay down its $60,000 debt to the Town of Canmore.