Local Sports

An Okotoks soccer player got a kick-start to her morning last week.

To paraphrase one of the greatest rock bands to ever come out of the 2012 Olympic host country, there’s a reason why Canada’s women are upstaging the men on the world’s stage. As the Rolling Stones’ kinda sang: “Time is on their side.

A High River area chuckwagon driver has the world in his hands. He just doesn’t want to drop it at the final event of the year on the World Professional Chuckwagon Association tour this weekend in Rocky Mountain House.

A group of pitchers for the Foothills Midget Black Dawgs will have the advice of a major leaguer ringing in their ears when they go to the mound for the national championship in Quebec City later this month.

Some players from the foothills were worried they didn’t have the horses to win an international polocrosse tournament for their country last month, however, they proved their concerns were unwarranted.

The Sheep River Road Race will live up to its name this year. A new course has been established for the 34th Sheep River Road Race on Labour Day Sept. 3, and this year the majority of the 10km race will be along the river.

An Okotoks Mustangs product completed his four-year journey for a national medal on the weekend. Team Alberta won the bronze medal at the Midget Box Lacrosse Championships on Aug.

First-time jitters were not a factor for a Foothills Stingray debutant at the premier junior national swim meet in Canada.

A provincial record that stood for six years has been supplanted by a prolific Okotoks swimmer. Okotoks Stingray Tanner Potaka, 12, established a new Alberta Summer Swimming Association (ASSA) record in the 400m freestyle with a time of 4:45.

The newest member of the Okotoks Junior A Oilers should be used to changing addresses at this point of his hockey career.