Local Sports

As the days of summer come to an end, the Sunshine Coast Youth Soccer Association (SCYSA) has been preparing for the upcoming season and the return of the game. This year the association continues to build on the support of volunteers.

The Sunshine Coast Thunder U12 girls rep soccer team played in their inaugural tournament in Chilliwack during the Aug. 27th weekend. In the searing heat, the girls played four games in two days, placing third out of six teams.

Gibsons resident Gillie Hutchinson is on a mission to share her passion for sailing while encouraging women to take up the sport.

Things are about to change for the better as a new season starts for the Sunshine Coast Adult Hockey League (SCAHL). A player draft weekend has been set for Sept.

After months of practices, scrimmages, travel and lots of bumps and bruises along the way, the Sunshine Coast Roller Girls are set for their first sanctioned roller derby match on the Coast.

Running has always been in Kristin Ohm-Pedersen's blood -she just didn't know it until recently.

Two weeks after getting bounced in the semifinals of the junior men's baseball playoffs, the Gibsons Jays held their year-end awards celebration Aug. 19. Several awards were handed out, as chosen by team members themselves.

The Sunshine Coast Volleyball Club (SCVC) sent seven athletes to the U14 Beach Volleyball Provincials and came home with a silver medal from the event at Spanish Banks in Vancouver, Aug. 13 and 14.

Young volleyball players on the Coast were treated to some first class coaching during this year's Sunshine Coast Volleyball Camp. The camp ran from Aug.

Players from tyke to midget were put through the paces last week in Gibsons at the annual Sunshine Coast Hockey School.