Local Sports

Twelve-year old Lola Quicili wrapped up her seven years as a ringette player by winning a silver medal at the Western Canadian Ringette Championships in Winnipeg last month. Ringette, by the way, isn’t just hockey for girls.

U-10 Bowen FC team ties for first in Surrey The Bowen Island Football Club’s Under 10 team played in their first soccer tournament this weekend: the Surrey Mayor Cup. The team won three of our four matches and tied one.

Before entering grade eight, Elliott Beamer had never played a team sport, but when he started at West Vancouver Secondary School he decided to take up football.

Pilates is the fountain of youth. No, that’s not a quote by Joseph Pilates, the originator of this popular form of exercise, but rather a comment from a longtime client. That’s the magic of Pilates exercise … it makes you feel young.

Wondering what the buzz is about the rapidly growing sport of pickleball? Here is your chance to find out without having to travel off island.

Four teams weathered the pouring rain on Saturday in order to wrap up the first season of Bowen Island’s co-ed softball league.

Thirty-five years after the first Terry Fox run, Canadians are still going strong to raise funds for cancer research by running, walking, and biking every September.

This Olympics marks the second time that females have been included for boxing. Three weight classes were represented in Rio.

Last year’s logger sport event at Bowfest gave Bowen Islanders a taste of competitive axe throwing, pole climbing and cross-cut sawing.

Seventy-two golfers between the ages of 8 and 14 descended upon Bowen Island Golf Club this week to compete in the BC Bantam and Novice Golf Championships. Eleven of those young players come from the North Shore.