Local Sports

The Athabasca Rapids Swim Club is off to an excellent start to the season, with members competing in three meets to date and claiming several high ranks. “We’ve had a really good season right off the bat,” said coach Hilary McLean.

Athabasca gymnast Rylan Wagner, 11, placed sixth overall at the 2014 Artistic Gymnastics Provincial Championships April 11–13 in Lethbridge. When Rylan competed on the parallel bars, he achieved a personal best and placed second.

Edwin Parr Composite Pacers coach Pete Burden is issuing a call to all football players — or even those who think they might like to be one — to attend the Pacers spring football camp. “We definitely need bodies. We need a minimum of 20.

The Athabasca & District Minor Hockey Association (ADMHA) will be increasing its registration fees by five per cent for the 2014/2015 season due to a nine-per-cent increase in the cost of ice time at the Athabasca Regional Multiplex.

Bills, bills and more bills. How Barrhead Curling Club would love to sweep them away like so many stones. Instead, the club says it is working hard to control costs and raise funds through casinos, selling Nevada tickets, raffles and bar sales.

Dapp’s Levi Foster is a national snowboard cross champion. Competing at the Canadian Snowboard Cross Championships April 3-6 at Big White in Kelowna, B.C.

The Athabasca & District Minor Hockey Association (ADMHA) hosted its annual awards on April 11 at the Athabasca Regional Multiplex. Below is a full listing of award winners.

Ethan Sakowich, 15, of Athabasca has been chosen to play for the northwest division team in the Alberta Cup. The northwest team is one of eight zone teams that will complete in the ATB Alberta Cup in Strathmore from April 24–27.

Athabasca will be represented in the Northern Alberta Curling Association (NACA)-hosted provincial competition at the Garson Curling Club in Edmonton in October by a women’s curling team.

For the last 25 years students from Barrhead Elementary School have been participating in the Edmonton Journal Indoor Games, the premier track event for elementary aged athletes in the province.