With friends and family in the stands cheering, Nelson's Ryan Lewis and the Thompson Rivers WolfPack men's soccer squad captured the U SPORTS Championship Sunday in Kamloops. The WolfPack defeated the UBC Thunderbirds  2-1in shootout in front of 2400 fans at Hillside Stadium Sunday evening to earn the first U SPORTS National...

When the Kootenay International Junior Hockey League meets the Pacific Junior Hockey League in the 2022 Prospects Game in Chilliwack, three players from the  Neil Murdoch Division will be front and centre for scouts to assess. Leafs defenceman Tyler Seminoff caught the eye of KIJHL head coach Dave Hnatiuk to represent the...

Nelson Leafs forward Joe Davidson has been selected as one of the Instat Kootenay International Junior Hockey League Stars of the Week. The Nelson native joins Dain Levesque of the Kelowna Chiefs and Sicamous Eagles netminder Damon Cunningham as Stars of the Week winners. Davidson finished the past week with four goals and ...

Nelson schools, including L.V. Rogers, Trafalgar and Waldorf, experienced some great results at the BC High School Cross Country Championships this past weekend in Victoria. Aleah Smith of Trafalgar and Mitchell Erickson of LVR both finished in the top 25 in their respective, Junior Girls and Senior Boys, races. Smith finished...

Fifteen years ago in November, the Kootenay International Junior Hockey League assembled a team of its best players to play Team Canada East in a pre-tournament match-up in advance of the 2007 World Junior A Hockey Challenge co-hosted by Trail and Nelson. The coaching staff for the KIJHL All-Stars was led by Nelson Leafs Head...

The British Columbia Hockey Conference announced today the coaches and staff that will be a part of the first annual BCHC Prospects Game on Tuesday, November 22nd at the Sardis Sports Complex in Chilliwack, BC. The KIJHL’s Top Prospects team will be led by head coach Dave Hnatiuk, whose Grand Forks Border Bruins currently...

Another tournament played, and another tournament title for the L.V. Rogers Bombers. The Bombers, winners of earlier tournaments in Oliver and Mount Sentinel, rolled past Osoyoos 2-0 in the best-of-three final to capture the Mount Sentinel Senior Girls Volleyball Tournament Saturday in South Slocan. LVR opened the tournament...

L.V. Rogers grad Ryan Lewis capped an amazing regular season of Canada West Men's Soccer by being selected to the Second Team All Star squad Thursday. The Thompson Rivers WolfPack men's soccer star, who played youth soccer in Nelson, joins teammates Jan Pirretas Glasmacher (First Team All-Star), Patrick Izett (Second Team...

The West Kootenay will be well represented at the upcoming BC High School Cross Country Championships set for Saturday at Royal Roads University in Victoria. More than 45 runners qualified for the provincials following Kootenay Zone Championships held last week at the Salmo Ski Hill. The Zone Championships attracted more than...

NHL Central Scouting has released its preliminary list of "Players to Watch" for the upcoming 2022/23 NHL Entry Draft with Smoke Eaters defenceman Brady Smith being named to the list. Smith, who is just 17 years old playing in his first year as a Smoke Eater, has been named to the NHL Central Scouting preliminary watch list...