Local Sports

Cochrane High School will post up another provincial banner after racking up 307 points to finish in first place at last weekend’s Alberta Schools Athletic Association track and field championship.

It’s a pretty rare feat for a soccer goalie to score a goal. In fact, keepers in the celebrated Premier League put less than one per cent of goals in the opposing team’s net every year.

The Bow Valley Bobcats may not get to defend their historic provincial championship title if the school’s student base squeaks past the Tier 4 cap and pushes them into Tier 3 – where they will instead take on the commanding Cochrane Cobras.

The Cochrane Cobras are gearing up for next season with a strong roster of young football players to complement the more seasoned members of the squad.

Before starting their own spring camp with the Canadian Football League this week, two members of the Calgary Stampeders’ O Line shared workouts and wisdom with their counterparts on the Bow Valley Bobcats.

More than 750 runners of all ages and abilities will put one foot in front of the other this weekend – including Cochranite Meaghan Fisher, who is fired up to face her first Footstock.

Ten athletes from the St. Timothy High School track team are headed to the Calgary City Track Championships on Saturday after a solid showing at the Calgary Senior High School Athletic Association divisional meet last week.

Like he’s done so often before, quarterback Tae Gordon led his football team to victory last weekend – but this time, it was the last time, and he couldn’t have gone out in better style.

Cochrane diver Ashley McCool was one of the youngest competitors at the Canada Summer Games in 2013 – and now, four years later, she will again take to the platform before leaping into in a new life at Arizona State University.

Two-time national champion wrestler Brendan McKeage did not clinch a spot on the Canada Summer Games team this year … but not because he was muscled off the mat.