Local Sports

The Olds Rapids swim club has a pair of Paralympic hopefuls on its roster. Ian and Angela Lowther are from Crossfield and have been swimming with the Rapids since the fall. They have also been swimming with Special Olympics Airdrie.

Two Olds High School (OHS) Spartans curling teams have advanced to the zone playdowns, which take place Feb. 26 and 27 in Drumheller. Both teams qualified for those berths during the divisional playdowns in Carstairs.

The midget tier 3 Huskies are ready for Game 2 of provincial playdowns this Friday. Coach Brad Price said the team was the victim of bad officiating during Game 1 last Friday night in Hanna. The team lost 4-3.

The 36th annual Olds Farmers and 33rd annual Farmerettes bonspiels were both “exceptionally successful, given the current downturn in the economy,” organizing committee chair Gene Leonard says.

Innisfail's Blake Anderson brought home a silver medal from the 2016 Alberta Winter Games. Anderson, 14, was one of three Innisfail athletes to compete for Zone 4 in the biennial event in Medicine Hat from Feb. 13 to 16.

An area woman placed seventh in the Pro division at the largest CrossFit competition in Western Canada this month. Jennifer Jackson, 27, is a coach at the Iron Age CrossFit gym in Olds. She is also a Sundre High School teacher. From Feb.

Good time tournament adult recreational hockey is making its annual return to Innisfail this month. The annual Innisfail Rec Hockey Tournament will kick off Friday, Feb. 26 and run to Feb. 28 at the red rink of the Innisfail Arena.

The Innisfail Minor Lacrosse Association is presenting its first-ever camps for tyke and mini tyke divisions in February and March.

The Innisfail Minor Lacrosse Association is presenting its first-ever camps for tyke and mini tyke divisions in February and March.

They're big, they gallop down the floor and move the ball at a dizzying pace, sinking open jumpers.