Local Sports

More than 700 young athletes from around British Columbia will converge at Pinetree Community Centre this weekend for the BC Artistic Gymnastics championships.

Four previous attempts reaped a lot of great memories and a bronze medal. A few weeks with a broom brought home the gold for Sam Kell. It’s just part of the crazy world of sports.

Volleyball is not a contact sport.

Coquitlam’s Peter Huang and Madisen Jacques led their Hyack Swim Club to a sweep of the Short Course winter age group and Long Course provincial championships earlier this month.

For Dale Proctor and Raymond James, the roaring game exists in silence. The Port Coquitlam curlers are deaf.

Coquitlam’s Adam Rockwood has signed an amateur tryout contract with the Springfield Thunderbirds, of the American Hockey League. The Thunderbirds are the minor league affiliate of the National Hockey League’s Florida Panthers.

The Coquitlam Sports Hall of Fame is looking for a few good athletes, teams, builders or volunteers.

Lincoln Gunning put the spring in the United Rugby Club’s step last week, scoring a try and converting five others as his squad powered past Cowichan 60-12 in Div. 1 action last week at Hume Park.

The weather is finally sunny and warm. But in just five weeks it will be time to head back indoors. The BC Junior A Lacrosse League launches its regular season Friday, April 26, when the PoCo Saints host the Langley Thunder.

The thing about playing hockey when you’re 72 years-old, the older you get, the better you were.