Local Sports

Rocky View County will have plenty of representation on the gridiron this spring, with players from Chestermere, Cochrane and Springbank donning the Airdrie Raiders jersey in the Calgary Spring Football Association (CSFA).

After five years of holding its annual swim meet in Olds or Didsbury, Special Olympics Airdrie (SOA) brought the yearly competition home, when SOA hosted more than 100 athletes March 30 at a day-long swimming competition at the Genesis Place Recreati

Airdrie soccer players enjoyed una experiencia of a lifetime March 15 to 24, when they travelled to Madrid, Spain to further their development in the world’s most popular sport through a program put on by Generation Adidas.

After a successful regular season, the Airdrie United 1 men’s soccer team’s 2018-19 indoor campaign came to an end March 22 to 24 at the Tier 3 men’s provincial championships in Edmonton.

A teenaged curler from Cochrane will experience something not many Alberta curlers get to do – compete in two national competitions in one winter. After featuring at the 2019 Canada Winter Games in Red Deer Feb.

The Cochrane Cobras senior boys’ basketball team went the distance this season, concluding its 2018-19 campaign in Brooks March 14 to 16 at the Alberta Schools Athletic Association (ASAA) 3A championships.

Defying all odds and exceeding expectations for a first-year program, the Edge School’s prep basketball team earned a spot in the 2019 National Preparatory Association’s (NPA) championship game, held March 23 in Brampton, Ont.

A women’s curling team that competes in Airdrie’s Super League is riding high, after winning the 2019 Curling Alberta Optimist U18 Provincial Championships, held March 14 to 17 in Medicine Hat.

After a 19-year wait, the Heritage Junior Hockey League (HJHL) trophy is finally returning to Airdrie.

The Edge Mountaineers midget girls’ prep hockey team reached a new milestone this season, qualifying for the gold-medal game March 12 at the Canadian Sport School Hockey League (CSSHL) championships in Penticton, B.C.