Local Sports

The hockey landscape across Canada is featuring talent from the Sunshine Coast. The Vancouver Island Junior Hockey League has been a hunting ground for Coast players for many years and this year is no different.

Former Canadian national snowboarder Mitch Baker was at Cedar Grove and Sechelt Elementary Schools last week teaching kids the formula to succeed. Baker was a member of the national team for six years.

Shaun Stephens-Whale's first time wearing the Maple Leaf was a positive one last month in Turkey. Shaun competed for Team Canada at the world mountain running championships. He finished 41st out of 80 competitors hailing from more than 36 countries.

Cliff Thorburn demonstrated on Sunday why he is a former world champion snooker player. Thorburn competed at the Top Gun Snooker Challenge at the Sechelt Legion.

The Elphi Cougars won their appeal last Saturday with B.C. School Sports, allowing the transfer of Chatelech player Jennifer Brown. B.C.

Best buddies Sean Stanhope and Matt Cottrell have beaten the odds and lived to race again. After spending the summer writing about the On The Edge (OTE) race club results, I thought I'd offer a look at an exciting event that happened last Tuesday.

They just want to have the chance to play. It's been a heck of a couple of weeks for the Elphinstone Secondary School Cougars senior girls' volleyball team.

Sechelt's Curtis Munson has reached the top of the mountain in National Hotrod Association (NHRA) racing. Munson was among the top drivers at the NHRA's Northwest Division summit racing series at Champion Raceway in Eagle Point, Ore., Sept. 9.

They just want to have the chance to play. It's been a heck of a couple of weeks for the Elphinstone Secondary School Cougars senior girls' volleyball team.

Hard work, a strict diet and lots of encouragement from family and friends paid off big time for Katie Duncan last month.