One of St. Catharines’ premier sporting events returns this Monday with the staging of the 60th Annual Standard High School Basketball Tournament. “Each year we get very excited the week...
Youth will be served this season with the Saint Francis Phoenix varsity girls basketball team. “We have a very young team with a lot of Grade 9s and 10s and...
Kirsten Moore-Towers and pairs partner Michael Marinaro have qualified for the 2022 Winter Olympics. Skate Canada photo. Kirsten Moore-Towers of St. Catharines and pairs partner Michael Marinaro of Sarnia are...
Avery Clark (front) won gold this year at the Skate Canada synchronized skating championships. Submitted photos. After taking home three silver medals from the national championships, synchronized skater Avery Clark...
Niagara College recreational therapy student McKenna McGovern bulked up her curling resume in a big way this past season. It started in January when the 18-year-old Lambton Shores resident was...
Pictured left to right is the Chelsea Brandwood curling team made up of Hilary Nuhn, Riley Sandham, Jordan Brandwood, Brenda Holloway and Chelsea Brandwood. The Chelsea Brandwood team continues to...
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...
It was more than the big crowd at the Woolwich Memorial Centre in Elmira that was making Claire Fish nervous at the Fourth Annual Hit Draw Tap Provincial Championship last...
Avery Clark and the Nexxice junior synchronized skating team is off to Switzerland. After placing second last year, the 19-member team — 16 skate during competitions — won the Canadian...
Niagara Falls Lightning Gymnastics Club member Chloe Theriault is adjusting well to her first year of competition at Level 9. Competing in the level below national stream competition, the 16-year-old...
Aereo gymnasts Greta Robinson (left) and Sydney Bisci had a strong showing at the first provincial qualifier. Two members of Welland’s Aereo Gymnastics Club got off to a flying start...
For Niagara Falls Lightning Gymnastics Club member Riley Wilson, it’s all about getting in the zone. “Usually at every competition, I get in the zone and I do pretty well,”...
Doug Geddie, chair of the 2020 Brier Bid committee for St. Catharines, speaks at the press conference announcing the bid. Kingston will be awarded the Brier on Thursday. St. Catharines’...
Indira Moores made the most of her second chance to represent Canada at the international level. Competing at the 2018 World University Wrestling Championship Sept. 4-9 in Goiania, Brazil, the...
Down 7-0 early in the second round of her match to teammate Kristina McLaren at the Canadian wrestling trials for the world championships, Brock Wrestling Club member Diana Weicker remained...
Standing in the way of Olivia Di Bacco’s second straight trip to the senior world wrestling championships was a formidable opponent at the recent Canadian trials in Toronto. In order...
Getting an injury exemption was the last thing’s on Jessie MacDonald’s mind after undergoing surgery five weeks before the Canadian team trials for the world wrestling championships. “I didn’t want...
Growing up in Niagara Falls, Fred Bassi always had a pair of boxing gloves in his basement. “I used to fight guys when I were younger. We would pound at...
Jazmine Deveau had high expectations heading into the Eastern Canadian artistic gymnastics championships. “I was hoping to place in the top 20 and I was trying to at least get...
It was with mixed emotions that Elliot Speck greeted the news that he had qualified for the Eastern Canadian gymnastics championships. “I was so relieved because I have done all...
For the previous three years, Gymnastics Energy member Ben Tschakovsky has been an alternate selection for the Eastern Canadian championships. All that changed this year when the 15-year-old Grimsby resident...
The third time was definitely the charm for Gymnastics Energy tumbler Alissa Castano. The 13-year-old failed to qualify for the provincial tumbling championships at the first two qualifiers before achieving...
Samantha Adams’ impressive wrestling season continued April 13-15 at the University of Alberta in Edmonton. Already the Ontario Federation of School Athletic Associations champion at 54 kilograms and the Ontario...
Competing in his first Canadian senior boxing championships, Antonio Napolitano was feeling on top of the world. Fighting in the 75-kilogram final against Quebec’s Denis Nickenson, the 24-year-old St. Catharines...
Things were going extremely well for Emilie Hamilton until the final 10 seconds of her floor routine at the provincial gymnastics championships. Then disaster struck. “I kind of face-planted,” she...
It took some time, but Elizabeth Baker finally found her way to the sport of gymnastics. “I did dance for six years before gymnastics and every year my mom would...
Lucas Bahdi ended one and a half years of frustration by winning the 60-kilogram division of the Canadian senior boxing championships in late March in Edmonton. In the process, the...
It was mission accomplished for Gymnastics Energy member Jazmine Deveau. With a fourth-place all-around finish in the Level 7 age 14 division at the Women’s Artistic Gymnastics Ontario Championships held...
The coaches at the Niagara Falls Lightning Club weren’t expecting Ariya Schmidt to finish third all-around at the Gymnastics Ontario Championships in Amherstburg. “We were surprised in a good way...
Chloe Theriault had a long wait to determine whether or not she would be declared the champion in bars in the event finals at the Gymnastics Ontario Championships. “I was...
