Brock’s newest men’s basketball coach is pursuing his lifelong dream. “I knew I wanted to be a coach since I was about 17, dating back to when I was being...
Following the Niagara Varsity Spears 28-14 loss to the visiting Hamilton Tiger-Cats last Saturday night in Ontario Provincial Football League action, the team honoured its graduating players. Recognized were: Stamford...
At the conclusion of the Niagara Varsity Spears’ season-ending 28-14 loss to the visiting Hamilton Junior Ti-Cats Saturday night, the squad honoured its graduating players. The players feted were...
Growing up in Haiti, Niagara River Lions forward Yohanny Dalembert never touched a basketball. All that changed at age 15 when a 7.0 earthquake hit his home country and killed...
The Southern Ontario Secondary Schools Association’s restructuring now includes a wrinkle. Approved last year and set to take effect this fall, the plan called for SOSSA to be divided into...
Lucas Bahdi improved to 2-0 with a first-round knockout last Friday of Ricardo Gonzalez. Photos buy VIRGIL BARROW. Blink and you might have missed Lucas Bahdi’s second professional fight. Fighting against Mexican...
Phil Mosley’s first high school coaching gig ended up being the most influential one of his career. The 55-year-old Ridgeway resident, who recently retired from coaching and teaching at Centennial,...
Olivia Mete and Santiago Gaitan-Caballero were named Notre Dame’s senior female and male athletes of the year at the Welland high school’s recent athletic awards banquet. Junior athletes of the...
Jeff MacDonald’s high school coaching career was all about paying it forward. “I think I tried to give back to my great coaches that I had in high school,” said...
Brenna Ferreira and Nick Yioldassis were named Centennial’s senior athletes of the year at the Welland high school’s recent athletic awards banquet. Honoured as junior athletes of the year were...
The winner of the Ontario Basketball Association’s male coach of the year award is a basketball lifer. “I have always done it (coached) and the reason I have always done...
Isabelle Newkirk and Lucas Romanelli were named Governor Simcoe’s Grade 12 female and male athletes of the year at the St. Catharines high school’s recent athletic awards banquet. Winning Grade...
Dorian Pinson is the Niagara River Lions’ Swiss Army Knife. “In baseball, they have five-tool players and Dorian is the equivalent of that in basketball,” Niagara head coach/GM Victor Raso...
The Niagara College men’s basketball program has landed the biggest transfer student in school history. Joining the squad is Donald Mims, a 7-foot-1 native of Sacramento, Calif., who last played...
Much has changed since last July when Nolan Piazza shocked the field and won the Ontario Junior Boys Golf Championship at age 15. “My confidence has gone up and I...
Pictured are E.L. Crossley athletic award winners: Back row left to right are Trent Glenney, Pooja Senthill, Emily Bonisteel, Jenna Mergl, Ben Bonisteel, and Kaleigh Smith. Front row left to...
The stakes were high when the Niagara Varsity Spears football team hosted the first-place London Junior Mustangs last Saturday night at Kiwanis Field in St. Catharines. “This game is huge...
Rockway Vineyard’s Mark Wiebe carded a three under par 34-35-69 at Twenty Valley to win the second stop on the Niagara Men's Golf Tour. Rounding out the top 10 were:...
St. Catharines senior athletes of the year left to right: Joseph Waterman, Micailah Jones and Nathan Taylor. Micailah Jones was named St. Catharines Collegiate’s senior girls athlete of the year at...
Josh Lisi’s first season of scholarship football with the University of Toronto Blues didn't got as planned. The 19-year-old Niagara Falls native didn't dress for a single game of Ontario...
Julianna Fabiano and Giulian Berezowski were named Saint Paul’s senior female and male athletes of the year at the Niagara Falls high school’s athletic banquet. Other major award winners were:...
More than 2,500 athletes from around the world celebrated the 50th anniversary of Special Olympics by competing May 14-17 at the Special Olympics Ontario Invitational Youth Games in Toronto. Beamsville’s...
Shannon Swinson mined double silver in impressive fashion at the recent Ontario Federation of School Athletic Associations’ track and field meet. The 19-year-old Beamsville and District Secondary School student won...
Gisélle Rugigana was named Confederation’s senior athlete of the year at the Welland high school’s recent athletic awards banquet. Laveena Lavoie was named the school’s junior athlete of the year....
A stint with Canada’s under-17 national box lacrosse team helped bring Alex Pace to St. Catharines. “Sean Allen was one of the coaches and he coached here in my first...
Maya Fetic has had an eventful journey on her way back to the Ontario Federation of School Athletic Associations’ track and field podium. The 17-year-old Niagara Falls native won OFSAA...
Tori Rigas-DiDomenico and Larissa Adamo were named co-winners of A.N. Myer’s female athlete of the year award. Nick Murdaca was named the Niagara Falls high school’s male athlete of the...
MUSTANGS PERFECT IN SIMCOE The Welland Mustangs minor peewee baseball team, sponsored by The Paint Can, defended its title in Simcoe on the weekend with a perfect 6-0 record. Round-robin...
It didn't take long for Guan Xi Liu to fall in love with the sport of fencing. “I always found it really interesting, I always wanted to try it and...
Pictured left to right are Eden athletes of the year Taylor Dool, Peter Pilling, Madalyn Weinert, Trent Thorpe and Grace Tawil. Peter Pilling and Grace Tawil were named Eden’s...
