Local Sports

Olds has a new speed swimming team. Clint Stevens, former coach of the Olds Rapids year-round swim club, has started up a summer competitive swim club, which he has named Rogue Racing Club (RRC).

Olds High School student Abi Irving dominated junior high track and field zones May 29. Irving finished second in the juvenile girls 100 metre (m) event and third in the juvenile girls 200 m event in which Nova Van Soest placed fourth.

The Olds Koinonia Christian School Royals senior high track team won the 2018 South Central Zone 1A track team banner.

INNISFAIL – There’s more to arm wrestling than meets the eye. “It’s also a team sport as well, not just an individual sport,” said Matt Mask, elite arm wrestler and president of the Red Deer Arm Wrestling Club.

INNISFAIL – The ninth annual Dallas Yarbrough Memorial Baseball Tournament was another success, with two Innisfail alumni teams sharing the top spot this year.

DIDSBURY - The Didsbury Aquajets summer swim team is back in the water for another season. The team has about 40 swimmers in the club this year from ages six to 17.

Former Old Grizzlys captain Chase Olsen is working out and helping at his parents' farm west of Olds as he prepares for the next stage in his life -- playing hockey for the Merrimack College Warriors, an NCAA Division 1 team just outside of Boston.

Young rodeo athletes from the district have been doing very well this season.

DIDSBURY - The future of the Didsbury Dragons 9-man football team appears uncertain, says longtime coach Mark Lefebvre.

Sundre Minor Ball is having a good season so far, the organization’s president said last week. Stacey Johnson said teams are out on the fields either playing games or practising during nearly every afternoon and evening of the week.