Local Sports

A Blackie cowboy can’t be tied down in one spot for long during the Foothills Cowboy Association (FCA) rodeo season.

Alberta’s representatives at the Football Canada Cup will have a distinctly local feel at the July tournament in Lethbridge.

Family life can have its ups and downs, but for one Okotoks family they are cheering each other on every Wednesday night as they go up and down the Okotoks BMX Club’s track.

For two of Oilfields High School’s graduating athletes, their moment of recognition was surreal.

When you go to a restaurant hoping for steak and wind up having to settle for a cheeseburger, it’s hard to maintain one’s excitement.

It was a good problem to have but one that couldn’t go on forever.

It wasn’t a good weekend to be a Calgary Mountaineer. The Okotoks Junior Raiders steamrolled the Mounties Junior and Senior teams on their way to a perfect weekend.

The Holy Trinity Academy Knights beat their opposition by a combined score of 141-17 at the Alberta High School Tier I boy’s rugby championships last week. Not bad for the “fifth-best” team in the province.

An Okotoks lacrosse player will be in some elite company come July. Natalie Valleau, 15, of the Okotoks Midget Mustangs lacrosse program was recently named to the 2011 Team Alberta Midget girl’s lacrosse team.

A self-confessed jock in high school is now the head of high school and junior high school sports in Alberta.