Local Sports

Olds hockey star Charlie Wright, 14, is playing in the Alberta Cup tournament in Spruce Grove at the end of the month. The purpose of the Alberta Cup is to help identify potential players for Hockey Alberta’s Team Alberta program.

INNISFAIL – Several athletes from Innisfail recently participated at the Alberta Water Polo provincial championships. The tournament took place in Edmonton on April 14 and 15. “We’re quite excited.

INNISFAIL – Coaches, players, team managers and families gathered to celebrate another successful year in minor hockey. The Innisfail Minor Hockey Association (IMHA) held its annual awards banquet at the Royal Canadian Legion on March 27.

Skaters and hockey players are getting a treat this spring -- the auxiliary ice at the Sportsplex is staying in for two weeks longer than normal. It's now slated to come out May 11.

Local women Hillie Van’t Klooster, 50, and Leoni Kelly, 45, competed in the 122nd annual Boston Marathon, which took place Monday, April 16. For Van’t Klooster it is her second go at the event and she is more than eager to return to do it again.

Shortly after learning about the Humboldt bus crash, an Olds Grizzlys netminder was making plans to get to Saskatchewan to support his former teammates. Sam-Jaxon Visscher was a member of the Humboldt Broncos this season until January, when the St.

The Olds Grizzlys have a new management team in place. The team made that announcement during a news conference Saturday, April 14 at the Sportsplex.

A moving tribute was paid to local athletes Ryan McBeath and Graysen Cameron, as well as Logan Boulet, during the home opener of the Stingers lacrosse game versus the Rockyview Rage Friday night.

CARSTAIRS-CREMONA-DIDSBURY -Several badminton players from the area had some great success at the recent Chinook's Edge School Division badminton championships in Olds, with four players qualifying for zones.

Doing any one thing for over 70 years is an impressive feat and that is true for Olds resident Ken Gillrie, 89, who has been curling for 73 years. Gillrie has been curling since 1945 and grew to love it for not being as rough as a sport like hockey.