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Sometimes big things start from small ideas.

Port Moody paddler Finn Wakeling is making waves. The 14-year-old Gleneagle secondary school student recently qualified for Canoe Kayak Canada’s junior national team in C1 slalom whitewater paddling.

In their 25th anniversary season, a lot is new for the Port Coquitlam Saints. The biggest change for the BC Junior A Lacrosse League team is at the top.

The graduation of key components like goaltender Christian Del Bianco and defender Ryland Rees means the beginning of a new chapter for the Coquitlam Jr. Adanacs.

There was more at stake in last Wednesday’s senior girls high school soccer match between the Dr. Charles Best Blue Devils and the Riverside Rapids than just first place in the Fraser Valley North standings.

The new head coach of the Centennial secondary school’s senior football team is hoping to bring the Centaurs’ program into the light from the darkness of two consecutive winless seasons.

Anmore’s Ethan Leyh is ranked 167th among all North American skaters by NHL Central Scouting for the 2019 Entry Draft that will be held in Vancouver June 21 and 22. That’s down six positions from the bureau’s mid-season report, when the 6-ft.

At 70 years-old, Frank Quigg’s dreams of racing his bike in the peloton at the Tour de France are long behind him.

The depth of high school basketball talent in the Tri-Cities was affirmed by three teams, Terry Fox, Centennial and Heritage Woods, qualifying for the AAAA provincial championships in Langley last Month.

Senior girls soccer in the Fraser Valley North is not unlike a game of Survivor. Persevere and do what it takes in league competition and your team will be steeled for a run through the Fraser Valley championships and on to provincials.