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An Okotoks rink found its return to the Juvenile curling circuit a little more challenging than they expected.

A Holy Trinity Academy Knight is taking full advantage of his lack of size by hitting the wrestling mat — an advantage he couldn’t use while on the school’s football team. “I liked football but I didn’t see much action,” Christian Nori said.

With the parity in the Alberta Junior Hockey League goaltending is often the difference between a one-goal loss and a two-point effort.

The good folks at Natural High Fitness have come up with a way to combine two of my favourite activities this Family Day. They are organizing the first Winter Triathlon on Feb.

The Okotoks Oilers don’t often make third-period comebacks, but when they do they prefer the achievement be at the expense of their biggest rival.

The guest speaker at the Okotoks Dawgs’ banquet has a message for the young athletes in attendance this weekend: be proud of your accomplishments and keep your goals realistic.

A pair of Okotoks curlers found their first crack at the Alberta Junior Curling Championships to be tough sledding.

Families have a new sporting option for the annual holiday named in their honour every February. Actually, if they plan it right, they could make it three options and all proceeds are going to help Okotoks area families.

It was déjŕ vu for an Okotoks rink in the A final of the second leg of the Ladies Triple Crown.

Okotoks’ King of the Mat found out his kingdom isn’t of Olympic proportions. Reid Watkins, a Grade 12 student at Holy Trinity Academy, went undefeated at Stu Hart’s King of the Mat tournament in Burnaby, B.C. on Jan. 6-7.