Tony Koo, left, Caebri Smith, Eli Fitzsimmons and Oliver Johnson won first-place for the Cochrane Piranhas Summer Swim Club in the boys 13-14 200-metre medley relay race at a swim meet in Didsbury June 4. (Photo Submitted/Kate Johnson)
Cochrane High School continued its perennial dominance in high-school track-and-field, winning the ASAA 3A provincial banner on June 4 in Medicine Hat. Cochrane High sent 30 athletes to the meet, who collectively finished with 16 medals and 514 points. That was despite not fielding a full roster, as the provincial meet coincided with the school’s graduation ceremony as well as other sporting events that same weekend.
Even without a full roster, the CobraCats senior girls’ team managed to finish fourth at the ASAA rugby provincial championships in Edmonton on June 3 and 4, following their zones and divisional banners in May. The team’s short-handed numbers at provincials were due to Cochrane High School’s overlapping convocation ceremony and grad banquet the same weekend.
The Cochrane Piranhas showed their hunger in the club’s first meet of the 2022 short-course season on June 4, ranking first at a competition in Didsbury and recording plenty of personal bests. Thirty-nine Piranhas athletes raced at the event, amassing 24 first-place finishes, 22 second-place finishes, and 17 third-place finishes.
The Cochrane Cobras boys’ and girls’ soccer teams played each other in a spirited inter-school scrimmage to see out the 2021-22 school soccer season on June 8. As usual, the boys-vs.-girls game – which ended in a 5-5 tie – got a bit rowdy, resulting in the need for some rather unconventional refereeing from Carolyn McLeod, who coaches both teams during the school year.
Members of the Cochrane Cowboys wrestling club competed at Wrestling Canada Lutte’s Nationals in Calgary from June 9 to 12.
Bike Cochrane Society hosted over 80 young riders from across the province on June 11 at the Cochrane Ag Society for an enduro mountain biking race. The event featured athletes from ages four to 16, many of whom were competing in their first enduro race.
The Banff Bears gained some revenge over their regional rivals, beating the Bow Valley Grizzlies of Cochrane 24-19 at the Banff Rec Grounds on June 25, in the second regular-season match-up between the two sides of 2022.
Four athletes from the Cochrane Endurance Project represented the club and town at the 2022 Canadian National Track and Field Championships in Langley, B.C., marking the first time CEP sent competitors to the national meet.
