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They served some roasted bearcat at the Foothills Centennial Centre in Okotoks last week and it left everybody with sore stomachs.

All good things must come to an end. Okotoks Bisons assistant coach Rory Hennigan, a born-and-raised Calgarian, is emigrating to Regina and in doing so ending a five-year tenure as a coach with the club.

The Foothills Falcons have done it again. The Falcons won their third-consecutive Foothills Athletic Council Senior boys volleyball banner when they downed the Strathcona-Tweedsmuir Spartans 3-0 (25-14, 25-20, 25-17) Nov.

The Okotoks Wrestling Club proved last year it can do big things for the athletes’ respective schools with just a handful of wrestlers.

There’s no margin for error when you are competing against the best rodeo athletes in the country. The four foothills area athletes who competed at the Canadian Finals Rodeo (CFR) in Edmonton on Nov.

pair of volleyball coaches were adamant about who would win the Foothills Athletic Council girls volleyball final tonight in Strathmore. The Spartans.

It’s been a two-month battle, but the Okotoks Bisons find themselves on top of the Heritage Junior Hockey League standings for the first time this season.

A three-year veteran of the Okotoks Masters found the perfect opportunity to dip his toes into the waters of a competitive swim meet. Ben Czelenski dove head first into the Big Rock 350 swim meet, Nov.

It turns out November is not too early to scoreboard watch in the Alberta Junior Hockey League’s South Division.

Just when he thought his Junior hockey career was coming to a close they pulled him back in. Joel van der Velden has re-joined the Okotoks Bisons after parts of two seasons spent with the arch-Nemesis Strathmore Wheatland Kings.