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The Bow Valley Grizzlies senior men’s team dominated their opening game of the 2023 Calgary Rugby Union (CRU) season, shutting out the Calgary Knights 67-0 on May 13 at the Calgary Irish Rugby Park.

“Our mentality is to try to push people as far as they can go, and create a community of success and goal-setting so that people can really perform.”

Cochrane's local junior B team, the Rockyview Silvertips, have already played their first four matches of the 2023 Rocky Mountain Lacrosse (RMLL) season, with mixed results thus far. 

“A lot of people have been congratulating me, which has been a really cool experience,” said Boychuk, a Cochrane native who has played the last two seasons with the Xtreme. “It’s really great to get drafted and see how things will go with that.”

Head coach for Trinity Taekwon-Do, Cameron Macdonald, said a team consisting of six colour belts, two black belts, and two umpires (Brenda Peacock and Tim Wuthrich) took part in the national tournament, which hosted over 600 competitors from across Canada.

“It’s a 1A/2A provincial championship we wanted, so for the size of our school, we’re the best in the province which was a great goal to attain,” he said.

“It’s a 1A/2A provincial championship we wanted, so for the size of our school, we’re the best in the province which was a great goal to attain,” he said.

“It’s always really awesome to see some Cochrane rivalry go down, especially at our home turf,” Scheberger said. “It was a really fun game to watch, a really fun game to coach, and not quite the outcome we wanted, but it was a really good game.”

Three Cochrane Cobras football players will don their high-school helmets one last time, as they get set to participate in Football Alberta's annual Senior Bowl.

History was made on the national stage as a team of talented ringette players hailing from Airdrie and Cochrane proudly represented the Zone 2 AA ringette association for the first time at nationals, capping off a memorable season and an unforgettabl