Local Sports

Bowden's Ky Marshall was crowned the All Around Champion at this year's Canadian Finals Rodeo, leaving Rexall Place in Edmonton $39,709.28 richer. An All Around Champion must participate in one timed and one rough stock event at a rodeo.

Two members of the Olds Rapids Swim Club are donning special suits in an effort to raise awareness of breast cancer. Eight months ago, Cole Urbanowski's mother Shauna was diagnosed with breast cancer.

It's a lonely feeling going into a swim meet for the first time, standing on the blocks surrounded by judges and rows spectators. That is why the Olds Rapids Swim Club holds mini-meets to prepare its novice members for the real deal.

Football action will continue for several Olds High School (OHS) Spartans, as they depart for the inaugural ABC Current Star Border Bowl in Chilliwack, B.C. this weekend. The game will be played at Exhibition Stadium on Dec.

An Olds and District Special Olympics volunteer has received some high praise.

Curlers from Olds and district were among the eight teams that participated in the fifth annual Special Olympics bonspiel at the Olds Sportsplex on Dec. 6.

Innisfail's Darius Ramrattan is preparing for a world junior championship run with Team Canada one paddle at a time.

The Grade 9 Innisfail Cyclones girls basketball team has lost its first game of the 2014-15 basketball season to Lindsay Thurber Comprehensive High School (LTCHS) by a score of 46-12 on Dec. 3.

The Innisfail Eagles have broken their losing streak with a 6-1 victory over the Stony Plain Eagles on Dec. 5 at the Innisfail Twin Arenas in front of a crowd of more than 150 fans.

Following a 5-3 loss to the last-place Calgary Mustangs at the Sportsplex, Grizzlys head coach Brett Hopfe ripped his team for the disappointing performance, calling it the worst effort on the ice he's seen in years.