Local Sports

Bill Kelly, general manager at Crown Isle Resort & Golf Community, has been named executive professional of the year by the Professional Golfers’ Association of BC, while the course itself earned facility of the year honours.

Sean Hayes has entered the professional ranks of his sport by winning a strongman competition, Saturday, Oct. 3 in Quebec City.

A Comox Valley basketball product has won a prestigious fellowship that will provide an inside view of the Toronto Raptors organization.

The Comox Valley United Soccer Club’s U18 girls and U18 boys soccer cohorts had their first tournament-style games against one another last weeknd.

The Comox Valley United men’s team unleashed a 5-1 thumping over Juan de Fuca to mark its return to the first division of the Vancouver Island Soccer League, Saturday at the Vanier turf.

The new head coach/general manager of the beleaguered Comox Valley Glacier Kings is confident his team can be in the mix during the 2020/21 Vancouver Island Junior Hockey League season.

The regional district has identified an under-utilized space in the Sports Centre that could be converted into a dressing room for the Comox Valley Glacier Kings Junior B hockey team.

Five Comox Valley athletes are part of an eight-person B.C. team that competes at Strongman Nationals Saturday, Oct. 3 in Quebec City.

The Comox Valley Ringette Association has appealed to the regional district for an equitable share of ice time to help grow the sport locally.

Janet Green has run another Boston Marathon — a virtual one — held Sept. 13 in Surrey. Along with a few other members of the Marathon Maniacs group, the Courtenay doctor ran 105 laps of a track to fulfil the parameters set out by the Boston Athletic Association, in lieu of this year’s cancelled event.