Local Sports

One way to prepare for your first season as a varsity soccer coach is to go over strategies and study systems of play from a book. But Quest University's first women's soccer coach, Martina Franko, is taking more of a cleats-on approach.

Whether rooting for the RCMP or spouting for the firefighters, a packed crowd filled Brennan Park Arena to raise more than $2,000 for Briana Gonzales through the eighth annual Guns and Hoses charity hockey game Friday (March 14).

Quest University athletic directors are looking for a new men's basketball head coach since choosing not to renew Steve Anderson's contract for the 2008-2009 season.

In an attempt to make an entire playoff run outside of their den, the Squamish Cougars were stopped in their tracks sinking two games straight against the Armstrong Sharks in the WHA semi-finals on Friday and Saturday (March 7-8).

It's the end of an era - but it ended magically.The Squamish Under-18 boys' soccer club played Rep together for the last seven years, guided the entire way by coach Andy King.

Consider them geezers, old-timers or wily veterans - it doesn't matter. The Bald Eagles have heard all the monikers while representing Squamish over the last 12 years.

Squamish snowboarders reached the podium in both the men's and women's FIS snowboardcross World Cup in Lake Placid, N.Y. on Saturday (March 1).Maelle Ricker won the silver medal to maintain top position, 350 points ahead of U.S.

The competition gets stiffer but the score stays the same for Squamish FC, winning their second consecutive Vancouver Metro Soccer League (VMSL) Cup game 5-1 against Norvan JB's at Brennan Park Saturday (Feb. 23).

Four young Squamish archers bussed the redeye 12 hours to the B.C. Winter Games in Kimberley and Cranbrook Thursday (Feb. 21) and returned bright-eyed three days later with the shimmer of four gold and two silver medals.

Dalton Thrower and the rest of the Under-16 boys of BC journeyed across the Pacific to face an old nemesis and an up-and-coming hockey nation in the Memorial Cup (Feb. 7-11) celebrating the 10th anniversary of the Nagano Olympics.