Local Sports

The Innisfail High School boys and girls senior basketball teams are experiencing the highs and lows typical of a basketball season. The girls team has seen more success while the boys team has struggled.

The Community Learning Campus's Tri-Active program is underway and well-attended, selling out within a week-and-a-half, according to fitness supervisor Brittany Ehmann.

Olds College's athletics programmer, strength and conditioning coach Mark Oxer returned from a CrossFit team competition in Edmonton with his squad finishing fifth out of 28.

The Grizzlys host the Sherwood Park Crusaders tonight, hoping to snap their seven-game losing streak. Olds lost both its games this past weekend, 5-2 to the Okotoks Oilers on Friday and 6-4 against the Canmore Eagles on Saturday.

Members of the Special Olympics Phoenix Swim Team placed from first to sixth among more than100 swimmers during a meet in Red Deer. The event, called Special Olympics Red Deer swim meet, was held on Jan. 30.

On Jan. 25, council approved a $1,000 sponsorship for the Hockey Alberta Midget A Female Provincial Championships, held in Olds.

Those on Olds College's men's volleyball team hope they will win many more matches in the future. It sounds so obvious but those aspirations were made in earnest by a team that hasn't had many to celebrate.

It's the grand old wet game defined by its famed yellow ball. You can pass it, catch it and shoot it -- all with just one hand.

A request by the Bowden Grandview School Blazers football team for money from the town will be considered during budget deliberations, expected to begin in February or March, said chief administrative officer Andy Weiss.

Jordan Slade, a student-athlete at Olds College, knows all about the importance of mental wellness. His father is a firefighter; his mother, a nurse -- two high-stress jobs that can fray even the most impervious psyche.