Nelson Neptunes BCSSA Results
The Nelson Neptunes took a core group of swimmers to the BC Summer Swim Association Championships this past weekend in Coquitlam. Here is a capsule look at the Neptune Results:INDIVIDUAL RESULTS: Kallie Badry 100m Individual Medley,14th 50m Butterfly, 19th 50m Backstroke, 12th 50m Breaststroke, 20thKeira Badry 50m Backstroke,...
Neptunes shine against BC's best at BCSSA Championships
Medals are generally hard to come by for Interior clubs when competing at the BC Summer Swim Association Championships. However, this is a different Nelson Neptunes team. The road warriors from Nelson continued their success away from home as the Heritage City Club did not look out of place at the provincial meet held this ...
Twelve B.C. athletes bring home medals
Twelve athletes from British Columbia are bringing home eight medals from the Rio 2016 Olympic Summer Games, including team medals in sports such as swimming, soccer, cycling, rugby and rowing. A total of 142 athletes with a connection to B.C. competed at the Games in 18 different sports. Of those, provincially-affiliated...
Mallard's Team of the Week — OK Tire B Division Winners
They may have started slow out of the blocks, but OK Tire made a run to the B Division title at the Nelson Mixed Slopitch Championships at the Lakeside Ball Diamonds on the Nelson Waterfront. Mallard's Source for sports would like to honour the great run by OK Tire with Team of the Week honours. The team includes, Brittany ...
Back on familiar ground, West Kootenay Glacier Challenge set to ride
Last year paving in the Slocan Valley forced organizers of the West Kootenay Glacier Challenge ride to conquer MS (Multiple sclerosis) to re-work the route. While paving is now raising havoc fro travellers on Highway 3A from Playmor Junction to Taghum, organizers are not at all worried as the show is back to its normal New ...
It's only August, but different vibe in Leafville as Training Camp ends
The month on the calendar says August. Not really hockey weather as temperatures ranged in the low 30s C on the weekend. But that didn’t stop the Nelson Leafs from being the first Kootenay International Junior Hockey League franchise out of the blocks as the Green and White kicked off the season with its 2016 training camp ...
Bronze for Koot-Neigh Indigo Bowick at BC Summer Games
Indigo Bowick and Ella Gotzy of Nelson were front and center in the equestrian competition at the recent 2016 BC Summer Games in the Abbotsford. The two local Koot-Neigh equestrian vaulters represented Zone 1 as two of 13 athletes competing in equestrian vaulting competition. There was three competitions in Canter D, and both...
Team effort clinches Kootenay Summer Swim Association Regional Title for Neptunes
The Nelson Neptunes continue to get better with age. The Heritage City club stole the show at the Kootenay Summer Swim Association Regionals this past weekend in Colville, Wash., finishing ahead of the rest of the field to claim the overall title. Neptunes coach Cynthia Pfeiffer said every single Neptune swimmer finished in...
KIJHL opts to put 'development' back into league; Leafs open training camp Friday
The calendar may have played a big part in the decision, but the brain trust of the Kootenay International Junior Hockey League will want to take the credit for pushing for more “development” of hockey players after deciding to reduce the number of regular season and playoff games during June’s Annual General Meeting in...
Mallard's Team of the Week — Nelson Neptunes Swim Club
Good things do come in small packages. The Nelson Neptunes did not let numbers get in their way as the Heritage City Swim Club came out on top and finished the Kootenay Summer Swim Association season in first place. The overall team was calculated by taking overall points and dividing it by number of swimmers who attended the...
