Local Sports

A second Olds player will be packing her hockey skates and heading east next year to play for the University of New Brunswick's Varsity Reds.

The Olds Grizzlys have officially come out of hibernation, with a split record in their exhibition series last week, and are now looking forward to their first regular season games under a new ownership and coaching staff.

INNISFAIL – After weeks of gruelling practice and excited anticipation, Innisfail's football season kicked off last week with a series of exhibition games, live music, a bouncy castle, food and a touchdown celebration competition.

Two hometown triathletes twice stopped the clock for top-10 age group finishes at the Multisport World Championships festival in Penticton over the past week, including top five finishes for both in their triathlon event.

A homegrown hockey player became the first Olds skater drafted to the Canadian Women's Hockey League last week.

Local lax lad Marshall Bloomfield didn't come back from a national tournament empty-handed, after helping the Jr. Calgary Roughnecks to the Jr. National Lacrosse League championship title, and topping the tournament points board himself.

The Sundre Bisons are shaping up to be a speedy, agile team this year, the football team's coach recently said. "We're looking really fast, really quick," said Tyson Dichrow.

After eight years of league homelessness the Spartan football program at Olds High School will be part of the rebooted Big Sky Football Conference this season, along with two other ASAA Region 2 schools.

Peewee baseball in Olds is two times golden this year, after the Tier I AA team brought home another provincial championship in early August, which sent them to the 2017 Western Canada Baseball Championships Aug. 18-20.

With classes kicking into gear next week, the Olds College Broncos soccer teams have begun lacing up their boots and kicking around the balls.