Local Sports

Payge Doty-Brown of the Comox Valley received the BC Athletics U16 girls Athlete of the Year award at a recent awards banquet in Richmond.

A small but mighty team of Strathcona Nordic Ski Club athletes demonstrated their grit and tenacity at the recent Western Canadian Cross Country Ski Championships held over three days in Kimberley, B.C. More than 450 athletes from ski clubs throughout western Canada attended the Kimberley Nordic Ski Club event, as well as a handful of skiers from Ontario and Quebec.

The Comox Valley wrestlers competed at The Port Alberni School Invitational Feb. 3 and 4. The event was the team’s first two-day tournament of the year — and the most competitive and largest competition to date. The weekend was highlighted by championship performances from Unya Hollmayer (Vanier), Inga Hollmayer (Huband) and Oscar Stehura (Puntledge) as well as a third-place team finish in the Elementary School Division for the SD71 wrestlers.

Towhees host North Islands this weekend

Isfeld’s junior girls basketball team hosted the first round of playoffs — the North-North Zone Championship — on the weekend. The tourney consisted of the three Comox Valley teams, along with Port Alberni, Brooks from Powell River, and Carihi and Timberline from Campbell River.

The Victoria Shamrocks drafted Arthur Miller with the second-overall pick

The JumpCamp crew can add a new feat to its long list of accomplishments; publishing.

On Tuesday, Canada Soccer named Comox midfielder Liam Mackenzie, 15, to the 23-player squad for a men’s Under-17 pre-tournament camp in Guatemala in the buildup to the FIFA U17 World Cup in Peru.

Yetis coach anticipates exciting playoff games

The Comox Paddlers Club invites fellow paddlers to attend the next meeting on Thursday, Feb. 2 at 7 p.m. at the Lion’s Den in Comox (1729 Comox Ave. - lower level, entrance of Nordin Street).