Local Sports

Keegan Murphy had a goal - he just didn't expect to accomplish it with an injured foot. He had planned to come in the top ten in the Canadian Figure Skating Championships senior men's division, and he did, placing ninth.

The Test of Metal Trials competition almost didn't happen this year, but organizers just couldn't let it go. "They just felt it was important to trials in North America to keep it," said Cliff Miller, Test of Metal executive director.

Local hockey player Jamie Jacquard-Sowa, 17, a member of Team BC, almost took home a gold medal at the Under 18 National Championships in Salmon Arm last weekend. The team finished the championship with a bronze medal. On Jan. 26, the B.C.

There is no stopping the Killer Eagles novice ringette team. The team is on a seven-game winning streak, and hasn't lost a game since Port Coquitlam beat them 11-8 on Nov. 21. "I feel it's awesome," said Steve Stanley, the team coach.

It was -25 C and by 10 a.m. there were eight cases of frostbite among the 37 Howe Sound Secondary school students. And were they ever happy. The HSSS snowboarding and skiing team was in Whistler Jan.

The Atom C1 hockey team just doesn't give up, no matter what is happening on the ice. On Jan. 21 the team faced Hollyburn, and lost 5-2 with misfires into their own net, but that didn't stop them from throwing themselves into the game.

The Squamish Bald Eagles went 1-1-1 at a tournament in Victoria last weekend, but it wasn't enough to send them to the finals. "We came very close to advancing, but we didn't," said Gregg Van Hierden, the president of the Old Timers League.

The Sunshine Coast Peewee Rep Blues can't seem to find an answer for the Squamish Eagles.

A local hockey player has taken his first step towards what could one day be a spot on Canada's national hockey team.

Dominique Vallée doesn't have a long commute from home to the 2005 FIS Snowboard World Championships.