Local Sports

Volleyball is king on the Sunshine Coast, as evidenced by a successful summer volleyball camp and summer beach season. Last week the Chatelech Secondary School gym was the setting for the annual Sunshine Coast summer volleyball camp.

The Sunshine Coast Women's Hockey League got a boost for their upcoming season with a week-long skills camp as part of the Sunshine Coast Hockey School.

Spirit of Aloha Racing (SOAR) won the 2010 Canadian Outrigger Racing National Series in Vancouver Aug. 14. Two crews entered the challenging 10.25-km short course iron race.

The annual Sunshine Coast Hockey School saw young players from novice to midget put through the paces both on and off the ice last week as they prepare for the start of another season.

The Rogers Rookie Tour Camp is coming to the Sunshine Coast, and young tennis players are invited to get in on the fun.

Rugby players young and old from near and far came out to Shirley Macey Park last Saturday (Aug. 14) to play in the Bob Cowie seven-a-side Gibsons Pigs rugby tournament.

While their friends flocked to the beach to beat the summer heat, young figure skaters with the Sunshine Coast Skating Club were chilling out and cooling their blades on Vancouver ice.

Tennis competitors battled the sweltering heat at the 35th annual Sunshine Coast Open Tennis Tournament last weekend. A total of 38 competitors entered the five main draws.

The Sechelt Sluggers capped off an undefeated season winning their second straight provincial boys fastball championship last month in Surrey. Midget-level fastball teams from around B.C. met at Softball City for the final tournament.

While most people were happy to finally see some rain last weekend, Show N' Shine and drag race organizers were praying it would stop.