Local Sports

Sarah Tamura will be Canada’s lone solo female entry at this week’s ISU Junior Grand Prix event in Slovenia.

Want to contribute to a national championship? The Burnaby Lake Rowing Club is hosting the National Rowing championships and Canada Cup regatta from Sept. 20 to 25, and is in need of volunteers.

Burnaby’s Michael Baldisimo is one of 20 players invited to the Canada Soccer’s men’s under-17 camp and series of international matches, which began this week in Panama.

It was a week of firsts for the Grandview Steelers and their new head coach.

Giving the spectators what they wanted to see, the Simon Fraser University women’s volleyball team hung on to upset Western Washington 3-2 in their biggest test of the young Great Northwest Athletic Conference season.

Sisters are doing it for themselves, and for others, as well. In a competition featuring 17 clubs and 294 athletes, the Burnaby Canoe and Kayak Club emerged triumphant, led by two sets of sisters.

National Coaches Week kicks off this weekend, and Burnaby’s Fortius Sport and Health is hosting seven national coaching certificate program courses at a serious discount as part of the celebration.

As season openers go, you couldn’t ask for much more than a 28-6 win over a long-standing rival. The St.

Despite seven aces from Burnaby’s Felicia Voss-Shafiq, the Canadian women’s sitting volleyball team fell to 0-2 after a 3-1 loss to the Netherlands on Sunday at the Rio Paralympics.

Those inaugural first days in a new classroom and on a new team can be awkward. Freshman Emma Pringle is having none of that.