Local Sports

Skills development was the name of the game at this year's Sunshine Coast volleyball camp in Sechelt.

Close to 90 youth soccer players enjoyed top-notch instruction from one of the game's best last week. Drew Ferguson held his annual soccer camp in co-operation with the Sunshine Coast Youth Soccer Association at Cliff Gilker Park.

Organizers of last weekend's Festival of the Rolling Arts have proclaimed it the best motorsports weekend yet.

Athletes from the Sechelt Indian Band (SIB) did their community proud last week, picking up 11 medals in the soccer competition at the North American Indigenous Games in Cowichan.

It's time to start lacing up those skates and getting prepared for another hockey season. And what better way to get a jump on the competition than at the Sunshine Coast summer hockey school.

Sunshine Coast Skating Club members have kicked off the 2008/09 season. After travelling to Burnaby for the last two and a half months, club members are excited to be back training on the Coast.

The Gibsons Minor Ball Association (GMBA) was well represented around the province last weekend as four teams took to the field in search of provincial championships.

The Sunshine Coast Rapids completed their most successful season to date with a well-earned bronze medal at the provincial peewee lacrosse championships last weekend in Chilliwack.

Coaster Sarah Doherty has golden dreams as she prepares for the 2008 World Sprint Races in Sacramento, Calif. this week.

Pender Harbour longboarder Scott "Scoot" Smith is tearing up pavement all over Europe and, barring any major upset, will become this year's world champion of downhill skateboarding at the end of his five-week stint abroad.