Local Sports

Spring has sprung and the Gibsons Rugby and Athletic Club is in full swing. The women's soccer team ended their season in fine form at the year-end tournament on March 28, completing a very strong run they have been on since Christmas.

If you were inside the Gibsons and Area Community Centre arena last Wednesday night, you might have taken a bit of a double take seeing some gold on the ice.

An exciting season on the pitch came to a close last weekend with the final playoff tournament for the Sunshine Coast Youth Soccer Association (SCYSA) and their house leagues.

The Source captured the 2010 women's league soccer title in a thrilling shootout victory last Sunday afternoon at Shirley Macey Field. Xenichen Ya Yas gave Source all they could handle as the two teams met in the final for the second year in a row.

A group of women from the Sunshine Coast are ready to rock 'n roll derby style with the formation of a women's flat track derby team. Willow Heaton, a Coast resident, mother and art student, had a dream of starting the team last year.

It will be "fast-paced and fun" when the newly formed Sunshine Coast Water Polo Club holds its first session on Tuesday, March 30 in what members hope will be the beginning of a new sport on the Coast.

Nanna Lou, you can be proud of your friends.

The bantam division rounded out the three-week Sunshine Coast Minor Hockey Association (SCMHA) spring break tournaments last weekend in Gibsons.

Twenty youth have just received the 'hero' treatment in a unique and successful partnership between the school district, regional district and the Hockey Education Reaching Out Society (HEROS).

All signs are good for a start-up of a new junior men's baseball team on the Coast.