Local Sports

While they didn’t bring back medals, five swimmers from Airdrie gained a valuable learning experience at the 2019 Speedo Western Canadian Championships, held April 11 to 14 in Edmonton.

For the first time in W.H. Croxford High School history, a player from the Cavaliers football team will compete in the Football Alberta Senior Bowl All-Star Game, to be held May 20 at Shouldice Athletic Park in Calgary.

Airdrie’s competitive men’s baseball team is pulling the plug, as the Brewers will no longer be taking to the diamond in the Foothills Major Baseball Association (FMBA).

Chestermere Lakers running back Roy Outh will join some illustrious football company May 20, when he competes in the 2019 Football Alberta Senior Bowl All-Star Game.

Hundreds of badminton players descended upon three of Airdrie's high schools April 6 for the Rocky View Sports Association divisional finals.

Two goals from Brayden Dunn – including an overtime snipe on a two-on-one – brought the Airdrie Techmation Thunder its first Junior B provincial championship, April 7.

Capping off the 2018-19 season, Airdrie’s AAA minor hockey teams recognized the efforts of its players April 4 at the teams’ year-end awards gala and banquet.

High school cheerleading teams from across Alberta will be in Airdrie April 12 and 13, when George McDougall High School hosts the 2019 Alberta Schools Athletic Association (ASAA) cheerleading championships.

The Airdrie Raiders midget football team enjoyed a dominant start to the 2019 Calgary Spring Football Association season, downing the Central Alberta Prairie Fire 34-12 at Shouldice Athletic Park in Calgary, April 3.

A young freestyle snowboarder from Springbank has shown she can punch above her weight in the sport, earning plaudits and medals against older athletes at the national level.