Local Sports

The words sailing and Squamish have been closely connected for years in the community, and this year marks a special year for the sport.

In the end, there were two athletes that stood above the rest. They chopped, bucked, ran, raced and sawed better than any of the other competitors throughout the day and their effort paid off.

The weather was hot, but the times of the racers were even hotter in this year's edition of the GearJammer on Saturday (July 24).

Corner Brook, Nfld. is the place to be this week for adventure racers. The Adventure Racing World Championships 2004 will begin on Sunday (Aug. 1) and a Squamish resident will be in the field of competitors.

Squamish is consistently producing great fastpitch players and the next star from Squamish is set to make his mark. Kenny Webb joined the B.C. Junior Men's fastpitch team a few weeks after the team was created in April.

In Joe Eppele's case, using size to your advantage is a good thing.

It started with emotion, as the wife and son of Bob McIntosh returned to Squamish to witness their first Squamish Triathlon - a Memorial to Bob McIntosh Sunday (July 11) at Alice Lake.

The Squamish Windsports Society (SWS) received a much-needed gift last week when No Limits Motorsports of Squamish donated a brand new 2004 Bombardier Sea Doo for use as a retrieval vessel.

Another wave of athletes will converge in Squamish on Sunday (July 11) to take part in the second huge event of the summer of 2004.

There's modest and then there's Jungsuv Song. The 19-year-old participant in Howe Sound Secondary School's international student program participated in the West Coast Can-Am Championship martial arts event at the B.C.