Looking Up At Downhill Results
Former Canadian alpine ski team member Patrick Biggs poses with the skiers from the National Capital Secondary Schools Athletic Association at the provincial championships at Blue Mountain. They made...
View ArticleThings That Might Turn Into Their Own Blogs One Day
OK, so the email in-box has been getting a little more full with each passing day. For that I blame Rachel Homan, Emma Miskew, Alison Kreviazuk and Lisa Weagle, who had the temerity to win the Canadian...
View ArticleClean Those Clubs
A couple of golf buddies who tired of winter and headed to slightly less wintry Victoria recently returned from an extended sojourn to Arizona. I guess they tired of even the Victoria winter, even...
View ArticleMulti-Track Minds
The way I look at it, high school track and field is another fine example of multi-tasking. Consider, for example, the cases of Hannah Kelsey-Smith and Remy Wade. Kelsey-Smith, who attends Sacred...
View ArticleTime On Side Of Glebe’s Fleet Foursome
It really isn’t all that surprising that high school track and field records could be older than the athletes who break them. That was the case for four Glebe runners who erased a 21-year-old standard...
View ArticleOfficials Association Names 2013 Award Winners
Sports Officials Canada announced Tuesday that Beverly Boys (diving) of Surrey, B.C., and Jacques Gregoire (speed skating) of Montreal had been named the country’s top sports officials for 2013. As...
View ArticleMakeover Under Way At Hunt Club
Michael Hurdzan shows off the new eighth green on the West Nine of the Ottawa Hunt and Golf Club during a course tour on Oct. 22, 2013. Disclaimer No. 1: I am a member of another Ottawa-area golf club....
View ArticleChampionship Stuff
Another crop of senior girls basketball and senior boys volleyball champions were crowned this past week following National Capital Secondary School Athletic Association finals. Here are the results:...
View ArticleFour Score For Volleyball Titans
The Gisele Lalonde Titans claimed their fourth consecutive Ontario Federation of School Athletic Associations girls volleyball championships in the AA tournament at Thunder Bay on March 3-5. The Titans...
View ArticleSmith hoping for Youth Olympic berth
OTTAWA — Running in competition, Claire Smith says, is not a family tradition. When she tells them she needs to go out for something like a three-kilometre training session, the response is something...
View ArticleSouth Carleton skiers racing to the podium
As a student at South Carleton High School, Blake Claydon didn’t know alpine ski racing was an after-school sports option. A recreational skier, Claydon, who played his sports in the community, must...
View ArticlePurple is the new gold at Longfields-Davidson
Think of the sports nickname Ravens in Ottawa and the first club name that comes to mind is Carleton University. But the time has come to expand our horizons and welcome a new team into the nest. The...
View ArticlePanAm prospects: For Mathea and Garnett Stevens there are five ways to the top
There are moments in sports when you have to stop, shake your head and say: “Wow! How did that happen?” Here’s a perfect example. It involves a brother and sister who have trained in the rarely seen,...
View ArticlePaul Brown leaving the sidelines but not the memories
Sometime during the 1991-92 school year, student Brent Doxtater approached Julian Hanlon, former St. Mark Catholic High School principal about starting a football team at the four-year-old school. With...
View ArticleCarleton Place girls are high school's Good News Bears
MARTIN CLEARY When head coach Barry Russell released the tryout notice in September for the Carleton Place High School girls’ senior basketball team, only four players walked onto the court. The season...
View ArticleHigh Achievers: 'Team' Patel comes away with provincial wrestling gold
Special to Postmedia Klara Patel graduated from Merivale High School last June, but decided to return in September to upgrade her marks to enter university. While there, she also wanted to take her...
View ArticleLevine inducted into Jewish sports hall as Maccabiah athletes feted at JCC
Jesse Levine doesn’t forget his Ottawa roots. A tennis broadcaster (Sportsnet), professional coach and a talent scout for Nike, Levine flew home early from the French Open in Paris to be inducted into...
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