Local Sports

The Neerlandia Sports Committee is hoping to break ground on a new outdoor ice rink this fall.

Organizers and runners for the inaugural Athabaska Ultra 100 are readying themselves for what will be the longest ultra race in the province, right through our region.

This summer Baseball Alberta’s Junior ‘AAA’ League will include a Barrhead stop. The team will play under the moniker of the Orioles and will feature players from both Barrhead and Slave Lake.

It starts with respect.

The Westlock Midget girls Rock took their early Greater Edmonton Lacrosse Council season success into a game against the Parkland Posse April 28. After tying the Beaumont Raiders 3-3 and defeating the St.

The Westlock Pee Wee girls Rock took their perfect 2-0 Greater Edmonton Lacrosse Council record into their April 28 game against the Sherwood Park Titans and played to a 1-1 draw.

Olympic bobsledder Melissa Lotholz was honoured by the County of Barrhead with a commemorative plaque at the council meeting April 17.

If a swim club’s success is measured by how much its swimmers improved over the course of the season, then the Barrhead Swim Club’s season was a roaring success.

The night was dedicated to the Humboldt Broncos.

Call it foreshadowing. Before Melissa Lotholz had officially joined the Canadian Bobsleigh team, she had a conversation with a friend of hers she met while running as part of the University of Alberta track team.