Okanagan Sports News
Healthy Heat Braced For Bisons
With a firm belief that being healthy for the CIS Canada West playoffs is more important than finishing first in the regular season, UBC Okanagan Heat head...
OK Rockets Glad To Be Home
The Okanagan Rockets ended what their general-manager (David Michaud) termed an “ugly 12-game road trip” with a now-so pretty 6-5 win over the...
Sweetheart Ringette Tournament Underway
Billed as the largest ice tournament held in B.C. and the second largest in Western Canada, the 25th annual Kelowna Sweetheart Ringette Tournament got under way...
First Almost Out of Reach For VB Heat
An upset loss at the hands of the Mt. Royal Cougars last week, makes the odds of the UBC Okanagan Heat women’s volleyball team finishing first in the CIS...
Kelowna Gymnasts Among Elite
Two Okanagan Gymnastics Centre athletes got their first taste of Elite Canada competition in Quebec on the weekend — with encouraging results. Lucia Jakab...
Winnipeg’s Raiders Reach Western Semi
The Oak Park Raiders of Winnipeg scored 28 points in the third quarter on the way to a 76-56 win over the Harry Ainlay Titans of Edmonton in the second game of...
Burnaby S. Opens With Western Win
Jumping out to a 23-point lead at the half, the Burnaby South Rebels waltzed to a 75-55 victory over the Bishop O’Byrne Bobcats of Calgary in the opening...
Community Sport Heroes Honoured
Okanagan athletes and volunteers took centre stage at the annual Community Sport Hero Awards reception on Wednesday at the Marry Irwin Theatre. The City of...
Third Ringette Tourney Win for U-16s
The Kelowna A’s handled the best Alberta could offer to win their third straight under-16A ringette tournament in Edmonton on the weekend. A 7-2 triumph...
Boucherie Claims BB Tourney Title
Following up on a recent decisive win over the Kelowna Owls (104-83), the Mt. Boucherie Bears gathered even more late-season momentum on the weekend with a...
Struggling Chiefs Succumb To Posse
The Kelowna Chiefs’ modest goal of a third-place finish in the Okanagan Division of the Kootenay International Junior B Hockey League took a major setback...
Comeback For Cailey At Skate Nationals
Cailey England of Kelowna overcame a four-month layoff due to injury to claim a silver medal at the Canadian junior figure skating championships in Kingston,...
Smith To Redshirt For Olympic Prep
Kelowna’s Kierra Smith is planning to take an “Olympic redshirt” season between her junior and senior years at the University of Minnesota to...
Immaculata Downs Owls In Final
While coaches downplayed the real significance of the first senior girls basketball game between the Kelowna Owls and Immaculata Mustangs in more than 10 years,...
Junior Owls Sweep At Sweet 16
The Kelowna Owls lived up to their No. 4 ranking and might have moved up a rung by winning the fourth annual Sweet 16 junior girls basketball tournament on...
Familiarity In Rare KSS-Immac Matchup
While the two schools' senior girls teams haven’t played each other for more than 10 years, there will be plenty of familiarity among the players and...
Volleyball Heat Win 13th Straight
Dominant performances by Katy Klomps and Katie Wuttunee led the CIS No. 1-ranked UBC Okanagan Heat to their 13th straight victory on Thursday in Calgary. The...
OKM, KSS Take Aim At Sweet 16 Final
Yet another Okanagan Mission Huskies-Kelowna Owls confrontation is looming at the fourth annual Immaculata Sweet 16 junior girls basketball tournament. Both...
Canada Games Preview For X-C Skier
Displaying the talent that earned him a berth on B.C.’s 2015 Canada Winter Games cross country ski team, Gareth Williams of Kelowna won back-to-back races...
Western Canada BB Tourney Preview
If the B.C. high school quad-A rankings released today are any indication, the host Kelowna Owls will have little trouble advancing to the Interior Savings...