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UBC X-C gets Hollywood treatment, Maria and Marek help bring three-peat to...
Whomever the UBC Thunderbirds tab to replace Marek Jedrzejek as the head coach of its women’s and men’s cross country teams next season will have big shoes to fill. Led by the first-place finish of...
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Uni track: SFU Clan’s Butterworth sizzles at Stanford, UBC collects multiple...
Athletes from both Simon Fraser and UBC were rounding into fine early-season form at west coast meets this weekend, setting the stage for spirited competition when the two schools clash with a number...
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The Mark of Z! STM’s Corrales-Nelson sprints to Triple Crown gold at...
EUGENE — The big news this week in Eugene, Ore., the track and field capital of North America, came Thursday when the IAAF announced that the 2021 World Outdoor Track and Field championships had been...
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Clan’s Butterworth continues to push gold standard, SFU senior stars at...
Lindsey Butterworth’s collegiate running career may be coming to an end, but right on time, the North Vancouver native looks set to stride into her post-university career. With conference and national...
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Vancouver’s Gleadle opens throwing season in Japan by breaking own national...
Liz Gleadle’s star found its place over the weekend in the Land of the Rising Sun. Vancouver’s javelin ace and 2012 London Olympian enjoyed a golden start to her throwing season Sunday, breaking her...
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Maria and Marek: Collegiate farewells are golden at NAIA nationals for star...
Maria Bernard made the biggest splash of the NAIA track and field championship weekend for the UBC Thunderbirds, but the most memorable one came just after the three-day meet wrapped up Saturday in...
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SFU’s Lindsey Butterworth wins NCAA Div. 2 national title at 800m, later says...
You can’t ask for anything more than to run the best race of your university career on its final day, and in Lindsey Butterworth’s case, that race was for a national championship. “I’m in shock,” the...
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PoCo pair spearhead javelin showdown at B.C. meet; Brit and Tea inch closer...
PORT COQUITLAM — Liz Gleadle’s record in the javelin might seem safe for another season when the 2015 Subway B.C. High School Track and Field championships get underway a week from Thursday in Langley....
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BCHS track 2015: Three to watch in Aono, Tjernagel and Schultz; CUI event...
LANGLEY — The meet within the meet is back and it’s better than ever. Since the Subway B.C. high school track and field championships made Langley’s McLeod Athletic Park its new home in 2013, the...
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Ben Ingvaldson is Tweedsmuir’s real-life Thor, thrower has golden powers even...
SURREY — His hair remains neatly coiffed, but those whiskers are starting to find favour again on the stoic chin of a young man whose exploits have seemed to come straight from the pages of a...
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Day 1: BCHS track and field championships — Best’s Botsis throws for gold in...
The latest — Nina Schultz of New Wstminster leapt 5.69 metres to win the senior girls long jump competition as Day 1 of the Subway B.C. high school track and field championships came to a close...
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Day 2: BCHS track and field championship report from Langley’s McLeod...
FULL SKINNY ON RESULTS AND MEDAL WINNERS FROM FRIDAY AND SATURDAY ARE BELOW SENIOR GIRLS 100 METRES “I wanted to get the record, so I am a little disappointed,” New Westminster Hyacks sprinting...
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Day 3 BCHS T/F: Who’s leading in the senior and JV team standings at...
The top five team scores heading into today’s third and final day of competition at the 2015 Subway B.C. high school track and field championships. (Click here for Friday and Thursday results, quotes...
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Hamber boys plate their baton in Griffins’ gold, Cinderella sprinters make...
LANGLEY — The greatest thing about each and every season of B.C. high school sports lies in the fact that its sense of drama is never compromised by its sheer length. From the moment that first...
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COACH OF THE YEAR: Scott Kent
SCOTT KENT TRACK AND FIELD EARL MARRIOTT (SURREY) SURREY — The best coaches are people who have found their calling, and if Scott Kent didn’t discover his until a little later in life, he’s making up...
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Jessica Hanson
JESSICA HANSON BASKETBALL SCHOOL: Little Flower Academy (Vancouver) FRESHMAN’S FUTURE: UBC VANCOUVER — In the parlance of her second-favourite sport, Jessica Hanson has never backed away from setting...
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UBC track wins recruiting battle, top Canadian sprinter Michael Aono chooses...
NORTH DELTA — Laurier Primeau makes it his business to know just about everything there is to know about the youth delivery system that populates the high school and club ranks of B.C. track and field....
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NINA SCHULTZ: New West’s young phenom sits as Canada’s No. 1-ranked junior...
NEW WESTMINSTER — It’s not the easiest mantra for a busy high school student to live up to each and every day, but in Nina Schultz’s world, its words have come to represent a simple truth in her quest...
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Classroom conflicts can’t slow Clan’s Kelloway from golden pursuits at GNAC...
It’s not a conventional training regimen by any stretch of the imagination, but when you’re a student-athlete forced to cope with an academic calendar whose dates aren’t always in synch with those of...
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Jasper Schiedel: Plucky Irish senior decathlete set to run, throw, jump for...
Spend a few moments talking to Vancouver College’s Jasper Schiedel and he comes across like your average high school senior. Yet place in him the heart of track and field’s most gruelling multi-sport...
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Zion’s time to shine! STM’s sprinter deluxe Corrales Nelson aims for history...
BURNABY — Since the turn of the century, no girl at the B.C. high school track and field championship meet has come around the final turn of the 400 metres stronger than Zion Corrales Nelson. Yet as...
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Hyacks’ Schultz sets new B.C. high school heptathlon record, VC’s Schiedel...
SURREY — Once, twice, three times the champ, New Westminster Secondary’s Nina Schultz turned in the greatest heptathlon performance in B.C. high school sports history Saturday at South Surrey Athletic...
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BCHS track championships: All the highlights from the first two days of...
When you set a new Canadian age-group record in the heptathlon like New Westminster’s Nina Schultz did last week, what are you supposed to do for an encore? How about go out and finish your high school...
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BCHS track and field wrap-up: Our first look at the championships with much...
Here’s some of the highlights from the 2016 B.C. high school track and field championships held in Nanaimo. We will be producing our definitive edition on Sunday, with a huge look in our Monday print...
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World junior standard now within his reach, Hoff’s sacrifice brings added...
Ask Brendan Hoff why he moved away from home in Campbell River to relocate to Victoria for his final two years of high school, and he’ll tell you that it was for months like this one. June of senior...
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Throwing her passion to the wind results in golden returns for McMath’s...
RICHMOND — Strength, coordination, fast-twitch muscle speed, an ideal centre of gravity. Ask Richmond Kajaks’ coach Garrett Collier to tell you what is so special about the skill set of one of Canada’s...
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UBC freshmen will engineer a delicate balance between the demands of sports...
(Welcome to Day 2 of Head of the Class 2016 Spirit Week. Today, we look at a special group of high school grads set to embark on the UBC campus next season) VANCOUVER — Throughout the first few months...
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Evan Dunfee on Russian track ban: “This is a great first step. This problem...
Richmond race walker Evan Dunfee had strong words for the IAAF banning Russians athletes from the Rio 2016 Olympics on Friday. Dunfee helped Canada to a silver medal at the world race walking team...
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Joel Della Siega
JOEL DELLA SIEGA TRACK AND FIELD SCHOOL: Elgin Park (Surrey) FRESHMAN’S FUTURE: UBC Joel Della Siega of Elgin Park Secondary. (PNG photos) In no sport is there a snapshot that provides a more chilling...
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Nina Schultz
NINA SCHULTZ TRACK AND FIELD SCHOOL: New Westminster FRESHMAN’S FUTURE: Kansas State New Westminster Secondary’s Nina Schultz. (PNG photo) There is a long-standing train of thought that the best gauge...
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