Local Sports

On Sunday, July 6, did the Coast feel a tectonic shift, or hear heavy artillery? No, it was just Roberts Creek racer Brian McLennan in his Ford Falcon taking the win over Kenmac’s speed king Shawn Boyd in his mighty Mercury Cougar, in the final Hot R

The Garden Bay Sailing Club held its 31st annual Malaspina Regatta on July 4. Due to the COVID situation, the regatta was on and off during the past few months – mostly off.

As with most sports, it will look a little different, but the Sunshine Coast Baseball Association is gearing up for a late season start for its youth league.

For some, the stairway climb up Soames Hill presents a rewarding opportunity to soak in views of Gibsons’ harbour with minimal exertion.

Drag racing is one of the few sports given the green light to move ahead with an organized event on the Sunshine Coast this summer.

It’s been a 10-year goal to transition online. It took a pandemic to make it happen. COVID-19 “changed everything,” Colleen Preston told Coast Reporter from her gym, Oasis Training, outside Gibsons.

In January a two-year-old Gibsons-based gym had just expanded into its new, larger space on the Sunshine Coast Highway to fit its growing membership. Two months later, public health restrictions forced the gym to close its doors.

The Western Hockey League’s Calgary Hitmen have drafted 15-year-old Oliver Tulk of Gibsons. The team chose Tulk 12th overall in April’s 2020 WHL bantam draft and announced May 1 that he had agreed to sign with the club.

For the past week, recreation facilities have closed, as have municipal fields, school district playgrounds, gymnasiums, ice rinks and basketball courts, leaving most Sunshine Coast sports clubs with little choice but to take an indefinite timeout.

While open fairways may seem like an ideal place to practise social distancing as other sports and recreation areas close in the effort to contain COVID-19, the Sunshine Coast’s golf courses have been forced to severely curtail operations.