Local Sports

An unprecedented – and abbreviated – season is finally underway for Airdrie’s top junior hockey players. After months of pandemic-related delays, the Western Hockey League (WHL) kicked off a shortened 2021 season on March 5.

Even as Airdrie’s youth sports clubs and teams are allowed to hold small-group training sessions again, a local swim club is still grappling with pandemic-related challenges that have made mentoring the city’s young swimmers difficult.

Fans of the Airdrie Techmation Thunder hockey team will have to wait until next fall – at the earliest – to get their junior B fix. On Feb.

A season that hardly got going in the first place has come to a disappointing end for Airdrie’s competitive minor hockey players. On Feb.

The Alberta Summer Games have been dealt another hammer blow. Originally scheduled to be held in Lethbridge in July 2020, the Alberta Summer Games were postponed for a year due to the COVID-19 pandemic. However, on Jan.

Members of the Indus Minor Hockey Association (IMHA) gathered at the hamlet’s recreation centre Jan. 26 to protest continued restrictions that prevent team sports from being played in Alberta.

The Airdrie Air Park played host to a special moment in BMX history last summer. On Aug.

An Airdrie-based curler will have the opportunity to wear Alberta’s colours at this year’s mixed-doubles national championship in Calgary. On Jan.

The 2021 International Ice Hockey Federation World Junior Championship did not go Canada’s way, as the tournament hosts and heavy favourites fell 2-0 in the gold-medal game to the United States on Jan. 5.

The West Bragg Creek day use area has seen record-breaking attendance this season, according to the association that maintains its trails.