March:
The Northwest Giants won a fifth consecutive B.C. major midget hockey title with a 1-0 win over the Okanagan Rockets.
Swimmer Mariya Chekanovych made SFU history, winning the Clan’s first-ever NCAA Division II national title in the 100-yard breaststroke.
Northwest Giants rookie goalie Bo Didur posted a 23-0-3 season for the B.C. major midget league hockey champions.
Great Northwest conference indoor athlete of the year Helen Crofts won SFU’s second-ever NCAA Div. II national title in the 800 metres at the indoor national track and field championships.
The Burnaby South Rebels finished in 10th place at the B.C. AAA high school boys’ basketball championships in Langley, where they helped set an all-time, two-team record for most points scored in a 109-105 win over South Kamloops.
Louisa Tsang won the Myriam Bedard award as most outstanding youth female athlete at the Cadet national biathlon championships.
SFU lost in overtime to Selkirk College in the B.C. Intercollegiate Hockey League championship final.
The SFU Clan women’s basketball team made it the first-ever NCAA Division II West Region final in the program’s history.
The Burnaby Winter Club won the peewee A1 and A2 hockey provincial banners.
Burnaby Mountain Wrestling Club won both the senior and junior men’s titles at the Canadian championships.
Riley Loewen became the all-time field lacrosse scoring leader at Limestone College, breaking Nick Carlson’s 2002 record of 159 goals.
April:
Team B.C. won its first-ever under-16 national ringette banner at the Canadian ringette championships in Fredericton, N.B.
The Northwest Giants lost a Game 3 tiebreaker 3-2 in double overtime to the Red Deer Optimist Chiefs in their Telus Cup qualifying series.
STM’s Darth Capellan won a gold medal at 50 kilograms at the Canadian juvenile wrestling championships in Saskatoon.
Itzia San Roman won a silver medal in the all-around at the B.C. artistic gymnastics championships in Prince George.
The City of Burnaby played host to the Esso Cup national midget girls’ hockey championships.
The Burnaby Winter Club and Burnaby Central Secondary School together formed a midget hockey academy that will compete in the Canadian Sports School Hockey League this fall.
Burnaby Winter Club had three bantam A1 skaters taken in the first round of the Western Hockey League draft, including Northwest Giants defenceman Dante Fabbro, seventh overall by Seattle.
May:
The Burnaby Selects won Coastal A Cups in both u-16 and u-18 boys’ soccer divisions.
Cliff Avenue United won the under-16 boys’ Coastal B Cup final 3-2 over North Van Fury.
Taylor Oakley picked up three medals, including a silver in the national open women’s all-around at the Western Canadian artistic gymnastics championships in Winnipeg.
SFU placed second in Great Northwest conference women’s softball for a second straight season.
A combined Bby/NW under-15 girls’ basketball team won the provincial zone title in Langley.
Stefan Milosevic set five age-group pool records at the 39th Hyack Festival Youth Cup swim meet.
The Canadian Lacrosse Association announced the return of a best-of-seven East versus West playoff format for the Minto Cup in 2014.
Burnaby Lake won a sixth provincial premier women’s rugby title in Victoria.
Individual provincial champion Alan Tolusso led STM Knights to the B.C. high school AA golf championship title.
Brent Lawrence ended his NCAA Division I baseball career at Northern State University, placing eighth in the nation with six triples.
Laurier Primeau was named head coach of Canada’s junior Pan American track team.
Remo Ruscitti had a runner-up finish in his pro racing debut at the Pirelli World Challenge touring car championships.
Briannah Tsang placed second on the vault in the all-age division at the Canadian artistic gymnastics championships
June:
Kimberly Newell was the youngest player invited to the under-22 national women’s hockey program goaltending camp in Calgary. She was named rookie of the year at Princeton.
St. Thomas More Collegiate had a best-ever, second-place aggregate finish at the B.C. high school track and field championships in Langley. The Knight boys also won the school’s first provincial title.
Hyack Swim Club’s Sehajvir Singh, Ethan Laing, Dima Lim and Brian Ni set a new national age group record in the 12-and-under boys’ 400-metre medley relay.
Burnaby Winter Club’s Dante Fabbro was named the Hockey Nownewspaper’s 2013 minor hockey player of the year.
