Local Sports

On Friday afternoon, Bowen Island’s soccer pitch is the domain of six and seven year old girls (and one boy, who they are happy to have join them). This new, girls soccer league is Rina Freed’s creation.

There’s nothing like tuning up the bike and going for a ride, especially after a long winter. Dan Cowan’s bike camps proved very popular over spring break and its easy to understand why.

On Saturday March 1st the Bowen Island Gymnastics Club (BIGC) hosted their first ever invitational meet with 70 competitors participating from clubs such as Pemberton, Whistler, Squamish, Vancouver and of course Bowen Island.

Freezing temperatures last week saw island kids skate onto not-so-thin-ice to play Canada's game right here on Bowen.

Is your child interested in playing baseball? West Vancouver Little League (WVLL) has just opened registration for the 2014 season.

David Koeplin grew up in West Berlin with Mohammed Ali fanatics for parents. "They would get all of us up in the middle of the night to watch Ali fight," says Koeplin, "even my grandmother got up at two in the morning to see Ali vs. Fraser.

On Saturday, January 11th brought a rain and wind warning, but that didn't deter 56 of Bowen Island's most hearty golfers from competing in the Bowen Island Golf Club's 9th Annual Snowman Scramble.

The Bowen Island Football Club, like most non-profit organizations, relies on the dedication of volunteers for success. Giving back to the club their skills, talent and time are two local high school students, Peter Goumeniouk and Devon Thomson.

Since the beginning of December, the Gym at Artisan Square has been open every day from 6am to 10pm and owner Fawn Gill says the experiment in this new operating method has been such a success that it is here to stay.

Getting dropped off high up on a mountain slope by a helicopter to face an expansive run of powder and a terrain that offers countless opportunities for jumps and tricks was part of the World Heli Challenge ( http://worldhelichallenge.