Local Sports

Simon Fraser University distance runners Julia Howley and Rowan Doherty delivered individual stellar performances to capture their respective 3,000 metre races at the 2018 GNAC Indoor Track and Field Championships in Nampa, Idaho.

Nolan Rigazzi and Riley Sabot are cool with it, and wouldn’t mind starting right now. As it is, the two Cariboo Hill Secondary students can’t wait for the first chance to get to their first class come next September.

Byrne Creek has been ready for the final stretch drive for some time.

They could only watch others feast during the first four rounds of the Western Lacrosse Association’s junior draft last week.

Burnaby-based bobsledder Julie Johnson, and her brakeman Kori Hol, finished ninth at the women’s world junior two-man blobsleigh championships in St. Moritz, Switzerland three weeks ago.

A cadet with the 759 Royal Canadian Air Cadet Squadron, Burnaby’s Claire Weng knows her way around the ski trails.

No one said it was going to be easy. The Grandview Steelers face an uphill battle in their best-of-seven quarterfinal series against the Delta Ice Hawks.

While the spotlight is shining bright on Pyeongchang and the Winter Olympics, there’s another light shining locally as high school basketball playoffs take centre court.

If Les Miserables novelist Victor Hugo was ever called upon to write a basketball story – that is, if basketball was a thing in 19th-century Paris – it probably would have been something close to what the Burnaby Central Wildcats and Moscrop Panthers

Her life has taken a big turn, all thanks to her gymnastic talents. Now, Tiffany Chung, an athlete from the Elite Gymnastics Club and member of Team B.C.