Oak Bay High’s senior girls basketball team boasts a perfect record heading into playoffs, but the players are not taking anything for granted. Oak Bay is undefeated through league play and won all three tournaments this season, giving them a No. 1 ranking with the city championships on the horizon, says coach Rob Kinnear. “I…
Field Hockey Canada’s Women’s National Program has named its Senior Women’s National Team and Senior and Junior Development Squads for the 2017 competition year. Fifty-one athletes have been named to three squads, with the Junior Development Squad split into two tiers. The Women’s National Team, which consists of the athletes most equipped to represent Canada…
COQUITLAM — Holding a 16-0 record and a No. 1-ranking in the world of B.C. senior girls varsity basketball might make you the favourites in eyes of everyone. Yet Victoria’s Oak Bay Breakers are keeping their edge on the road to March Madness by subscribing to a very different theory, one which happens to cast…
Jeane Lassen competes in the women’s 75kg weightlifting final at the Beijing 2008 Summer Olympics. She originally finished eighth, but has since been bumped up to fifth place. (Paul Chiasson/CP) Yukon’s Jeane Lassen says she was “pretty proud” to finish in eighth place in the women’s 75-kilogram weightlifting at the Beijing Games in 2008. Since then, her…
When Paige Sutton was introduced to lacrosse at the age of four, none of the boys on her team would pass to her. Discouraged, she gave up the sport for a period of time and moved on to other things. Twelve years later, those early memories seem a lifetime ago. That’s because Sutton, a Grade…