Local Sports

At an Okotoks competition measuring the limits of pure physical strength two foothills children proved pumping iron is not the sole domain of adults.

The pressure of a last chance qualification meet didn’t faze members of the Foothills Stingrays Swim Club as six swimmers earned berths to the 2012 Alberta championships.

The five-time defending Foothills Athletic Council champions turned a two-point deficit after three quarters into a 19-point victory to cap a clean sweep in the basketball finals for the Okotoks school.

Three 20-year-old Okotokians in their final season of Junior eligibility have been reunited on an upstart Alberta Junior Hockey League team poised for a playoff run after notching a shocking upset in their first-round series.

A former Oilfields High School varsity standout has taken his talents to the Alberta Colleges Athletic League where the 19-year-old is a two-sport star for the Olds College Broncos.

The Okotoks Bisons’ special teams were truly special in the first battle of a highly anticipated matchup of Heritage Junior Hockey League South Division heavyweights.

The Okotoks Oilers have lost home-ice advantage after a heart-breaking double-overtime loss in Game 1 of the second round of the Alberta Junior Hockey League playoffs.

The leader of the Holy Trinity Academy Knights Senior boys basketball team is just following in his sisters’ footsteps.

A coin appraiser has given me his two cents worth, which means I have made a 100-per-cent profit in my investment.

It didn’t matter whether you were a Falcons fan or decked out in Holy Trinity Academy green-and-white on the weekend, Foothills Composite High School was the place to be on Saturday.