Local Sports

Whether it was in the gyms of Chatelech or Elphinstone secondary schools or the many Coast soccer pitches or running tracks, Coast athletes learned their chosen sports and are now taking those skills with them to universities all over the province.

The game is clownball, with something new every night - and no team plays it better than the Harlem Crowns. The clown princes of basketball are returning to the court at Elphinstone Secondary School on Saturday night, Oct.

The Vancouver Whitecaps extended a last minute invitation to the Sunshine Coast Youth Soccer Association to bring coast soccer players to attend last Sunday's playoff game against the Puerto Rico Islanders.

Junior teams from Squamish to Osoyoos continue to benefit from the talent produced by the Sunshine Coast Minor Hockey Association (SCMHA).

The Sechelt Hitmen are looking for a some home ice advantage after a tough opening season loss. Sechelt lost its West Coast Men's Hockey League season opener 8-1 last Saturday night against the Mid Island Blazers in Courtenay.

In the seven years that she's attended the Toronto Marathon as either a webmaster or participant, Halfmoon Bay's Teresa Nightingale says the event just keeps getting better and better. And this year was certainly no exception.

For the second year in a row, Kirk Nederpelt, assistant golf professional at the Sunshine Coast Golf and Country Club, has been nominated for the PGA of B.C. Junior Golf Promoter of the Year.

More than 800 enthusiastic young soccer players came out to last weekend's Sunshine Coast Youth Soccer Association (SCYSA) training session put on by the Vancouver Whitecaps FC.

Suncoast Racquet Club's Tennismania saw players of all ages and abilities participating last weekend. Seventeen teens hit the ball to music, youngsters ages seven to 12 received free lessons, and non-members played for free and met club members.

Thirty-two youth, some putting on hockey gear and skating for the first time, received the hero treatment last Friday at the Gibsons and Area Community Centre.