Category Archives: Local Sports

NANAIMO - Clipper hockey fans will barely recognize the team as it takes to the ice for the 2021-22 season.While nine players return from the shortened pod season of April and May, the only player fan...

NANAIMO - High school football is back on the field after COVID-19 wiped out the 2020 season.There's extra excitement among players, coaches, parents and fans to see the game back on the field.John Ba...

NANAIMO - The Junior A Timbermen reached all the way to Albany to bolster their coaching staff.Albany FireWolves coach and general manager Glenn Clark will coach the Jr. Tmen in 2022 and the western s...

NANAIMO - A BMX event to remember a fallen hero and support the local race community is back on track.After a year off because of COVID-19 the Aidan Webber Memorial Race and Pro-Am will return to the ...

PARKSVILLE - A fourth visit to the Paralympics was unlike any other for a local Olympian.The Tokyo 2020 Paralympics wrapped up on Sept. 5 with Parksville's Trevor Hirschfield competing for Team Canada...

NANAIMO - Nearly two years after winning silver medals at CCAA nationals the VIU Mariners soccer program is back on the pitch.The men's and women's sides return to PACWEST game action Sept. 18.Men's c...

NANAIMO - A former local minor hockey product is staying put for the next two years.Dylan Coghlan has put pen to paper on a two-year extension with the Vegas Golden Knights. The team announced the dea...

NANAIMO - The return of VI Raiders football and Nanaimo Buccaneers hockey signal the beginning of the local fall sports season.Raiders head coach Curtis Vizza said not having a season in 2020 was a vo...

NANAIMO - The Island Swish youth basketball program will focus on improving skills and developing coaches this fall.Boys and girls club teams and a fall rec league will get players into game action wh...

NANAIMO - Hornets rugby is returning to Nanaimo with fall programs for all ages.Practices for the fall season begin Sept. 7 for the men's team and Sept. 9 for the women.Hornets rugby president Nick Sc...