Local Sports

Is your child interested in playing baseball? Cypress Park Little League (CPLL) has just opened registration for the 2012 season. CPLL covers the western portion of West Vancouver, plus Bowen Island and Lions Bay.

For the last decade, Bowen Island Taekwondo has offered classes to adults and children of our community.

Are you looking for company and expert advice in your build up to the Vancouver Sun Run? Come join the Bowen Island Sun Run clinic starting Saturday, January 14, at 8:30 a.m. at the Bowen Youth Centre.

If anyone has soccer on the brain it's Morgan Quarry, the general manager of the Canadian men's national soccer team. Quarry has also dedicated much of his time as the president of the Bowen Island Football Club.

On Saturday, December 10, three young students of Bowen Island Taekwondo tested for their black belts. Devon Thompson and Brian Cuba achieved the rank of second Dan (or degree) black belt and Dawson Taylor achieved his first Dan black belt.

The Bowen Island co-ed soccer league completed Season 5 last Saturday as Red United whitewashed Pink FC 3-0 to take home the Wooden Trophy before 34 fans on a frozen AT field at BICS.

They pranced and they dashed. Decked out in various forms of reindeer finery, the reindeer run collective herd raised $1,767 at this year's fifth annual Reindeer Run, with all proceeds benefiting the Bowen Island Christmas Hamper.

T'was not long before Christmas, When all through our isle, not a creature was stirring, at least not for awhile When what to my wondering eyes should appear, But Bowen trails, hot cocoa, and a community of Reindeer! A sweet and strong lady, so livel

It takes determination and dedication to run a 42 kilometer marathon. But to run in the New York City marathon, one of the world's greatest road races, along with more than 100,000 participants, takes a very special type of person.

In what was likely the very first organized football game in the history of Bowen Island, two teams from the North Shore's Gordon Sturtridge Football League played at the BICS field on Sunday morning, Oct. 16.