Local Sports

Former Sunshine Coast soccer player Will Gye picked up national soccer honours recently. Gye won a gold medal helping the Douglas College Royals to the National Collegiate soccer title.

The 2006 Vancouver Sun Run, Canada's largest 10 km running event, will be held on Sunday, April 23. A clinic, co-ordinated by SportMedBC, is currently being offered by the Sunshine Coast Regional District (SCRD) parks and recreation division.

Two Sunshine Coast hockey players were recently selected to represent their zone at the B.C. Hockey Association's Best Ever Program of Excellence.

Elphinstone's senior girls' basketball team dominated the competition at Chatelech's annual Eagle Invitational Tournament last weekend. Elphi demolished Cariboo Hill 57-12 in their first game and then annihilated King George 59-7.

The Peewee Rep Blues came home with third place from a holiday tournament in Powell River. The Blues didn't start out well, losing to Powell River and New Westminster on the opening day of the tournament Dec. 29.

Ben Smith is using his talents in the squared circle to help motivate youth on the Coast. Smith is starting up an after-school boxing program later this month.

With the Christmas break in the books, high school basketball teams are back in the gym. The Chat bantam boys sit with a record of 0-2 starting play this month. Chat lost 29-28 to St. Thomas Aquinas (STA) on Dec. 7 and 36-21 to Seycove on Dec. 14.

The Elphinstone Secondary School senior girls' volleyball team has secured a berth in next weekend's provincial championship.

A year of intense workouts and a strict diet paid off in a big way for Katie Duncan. Duncan, 41, and long-time resident of the Sunshine Coast, competed in the Sandra Wickham Fall Classic Bodybuilding/Fitness and Figure Championships on Nov.

The Scribes came to the Coast last Saturday for a game against the Gibsons Pigs. It was a lovely day for a game, which started on schedule, but it looked as if the home side was still in bed.