Sports

As part of the commitment to long-term athlete development and the "swim to win" initiatives, Swim BC selects swimmers from each club and brings them together in each region for a training camp.

Five junior members of the Comox Valley Kickers rugby club are on the move this week as they climb into the upper echelons of the rugby world.

Just when he would prefer to be going for the jugular, Jim MacLean finds himself becoming a juggler.

This weekend, the Strathcona Nordic Ski Club (SNSC) will host the Coastal Cup #4 & #5 cross-country ski races.

While the eyes of the Alpine world turn toward Germany and the world championships at Garmish, the eyes of the champions-in-training of the Mt. Washington Ski Club are fixed more locally.

The Chimo Gymnastics Club invites the public to join them this weekend at the Comox Recreation Centre for their annual PJ Party Competitive Meet.

A full night of amateur MMA action featuring seven Comox Valley fighters goes Saturday night in Campbell River when King of the Rock hits the Thunderbird Hall.

The Comox Valley Kickers women’s rugby team, returning from a two-month long Christmas schedule break and dressed in eye-catching new uniforms, suffered a rude awakening Saturday when it dropped an inglorious 63-0 defeat at the hands of the Nanaimo Hornets at Village Park in Cumberland.

The call is out to 14-to 18-year-olds to register for the 29th annual Royal LePage Comox Valley Snow to Surf Adventure Relay Race.

On Wednesday Feb. 2 I received a phone call from Len Everet, B.C. director of Ducks Unlimited Canada. He was inviting me to a celebration of the genesis of Bear Creek Nature Park (161 acres) on the Oyster River and the creation of a conservation covenant granted by the Evans Family, owners of Shelter Point Farms, consisting of 357 acres of fields and environmentally sensitive foreshore on the Oyster River Estuary to Ducks Unlimited Canada.