Local Sports

Adrienne Juni and Andrew Oxtoby of Burnaby earned two of the 12 scholarships handed out by the B.C. Soccer Association last week.

Simon Fraser University track athlete Helen Crofts has been named the Great Northwest Athletic Conference's female co-athlete of the year along with Seattle Pacific's Ali Worthen.

Not since 1974 have two Burnaby/New Westminster schools made such an impact on the B.C. high school track and field championships. St. Thomas More College placed second in the overall team aggregate - it's best-ever showing at the B.C.

The heydays of Burnaby Central high school track and field may be over, when the Wildcats won their record 15th provincial team championship in 2000, but don't tell that to the newest crop of up-and-comers.

An undisciplined showing may have cost the Burnaby Lakers its first win of the Western Lacrosse Association season.

Burnaby South Secondary student Ahmad Nazamani always knew he had the spring in his legs. While growing up, Nazamani had always been the first kid on his high school basketball team to be able to touch the rim or to dunk the ball.