Two Nelsonites took part in the final Ironman Canada this past Sunday in Penticton Peter Lee, and his daughter, Danica, of Nelson completed the grueling course on a hot day in the Okanagan. The senior Lee, 58, completed the 2.4 mile (3.8 km) swim course in a time of 1:19:56, bike course of 112 miles (180km), 7:39:55 and run...

The race to knock off Beaver Valley as champions in the Kootenay International Junior Hockey League begins this weekend for the Nelson Leafs Hockey Club. Coach Frank Maida opens camp on the 2012-13 season Friday at the NDCC Arena. Camp runs all weekend as Maida and Company evaluate players for the upcoming season. The Leafs...

West Kootenay Boundary finished with 67 medals at the B.C. Senior Games held recently in Burnaby. The zone tallied 22 medals of the golden variety led by the swim team that took home no less than 11 first-place medals. Lower Mainland topped the medal standings with an amazing 446 medals, more than 60 ahead of second place...

Members of the Nelson Trail Running Series recently went on a Kokanee Glacier Traverse trek. Eight runners left the Enterprise Creek Drainage on the Slocan Lake side of Kokanee Glacier Park at 6:45 a.m. and five others left the Gibson Lake parking lot on the east side of the park at 8 a.m. Almost four hours later the team met...

Three days of biking, starting of course with a parade down Baker Street, riding through bush trails and thundering down a wild cross country run and over jumps is all competitors could handle at the 2012 Nelson Fat Tire Festival. Baker Street was filled with riders celebrating the start of the festival, held in the memory ...

The Canadian Paralympic team in London is getting a big boost from Canada's western-most province, with British Columbia-born or-trained athletes making up 29 per cent of the team. Of the 42 athletes B.C. is sending, 38 were born and raised here, while the other four have received substantial training support through the B.C....

A handful of Nelson Neptune swimmers took to the road to see how they stack up against the best in the province at the B.C. Summer Swim Association Championships held recently in Nanaimo. Madeline Holitzki, Samuel Matthew, Matthew Holitzski and Jaylen Rushton were the only Neptunes to attend the provincial meet but still...

Hockey fans looking to check out the Nelson Leafs this Kootenay International Junior Hockey League season can pretty much pick any Friday or Saturday from September to February to see the Green and White in action. Those two days of the week offer the best choice as Nelson plays no less than 20 of the team’s 26 home games on...

Staff at Mallard’s Source for sports is dipping into the vault a little to find the most likely recipient for Team of the Week. Mallard’s staff looked back at the 2012 B.C. Summer Games held last month in Surrey for the winner — Kootenay Zone U12 Boy’s Soccer squad. The team played very well against some of the top U12 teams...

Fifty-nine riders busted the $60,000 mark this past weekend at the West Kootenay Glacier Challenge. The event, hosted by the West Kootenay Chapter of the MS Society of Canada, is a pledge-based fundraising event that provides Canadians with the opportunity to ride through scenic and often spectacular parts of the country. Not...