Local Sports

Burnaby soccer teams won a pair of silver medals to go along with the Burnaby's Selects under-13 boys' gold medal in Kamloops last weekend.

Alex Kim and Stephanie Rennie were named Grade 12 male and female athlete of the year, respectively, at Byrne Creek Secondary School.

The Hyack Swim Club is back on top for the first time in decades at the Swim B.C. AAA long course championships in Richmond last week.

u-19s surprise at Burnaby Lake

The Burnaby Judo Club brought back four medals from the 2012 nationals last week. Daniel Kim won the under-15 boys' under-38 kilogram gold medal with a one-point decision over Quebec's Ricardo Scremin by Yusei-gashi.

Canadian national captain Christine Sinclair booted the women's soccer team to its third consecutive double-digit season in wins last week.

The Burnaby Mountain Selects elite boys' field lacrosse team made both theunder-13 and -15 finals at the recent University of Denver team camp.

The Simon Fraser University Men's Ice Hockey program announced a commitment from forward Brenden Silvester to attend SFU and join the team for the 2012/13 British Columbia Intercollegiate Hockey League season.

Burnaby's pain turned out to be the Langley Thunder's gain in the opening game of the B.C. Junior Lacrosse League best-of-three playoff on Wednesday.

The Burnaby Selects overcame the Coastal Cup champions and an opening day defeat at the under-13 boys' provincial A championship to win their first B.C. soccer title.