Local Sports

Service without a smile? Backhand like a rusty screen door? The Whistler Racquet and Golf Resort is offering a series of locals clinics for all levels of ability to help you get your tennis game to the next level.

In last week’s coverage of the World Snowboarding Championship, there a few corrections to note. The first is that the picture and captions were reversed.

Two hundred boys and girls of all ages and abilities are expected back this year to kick off the Whistler Youth Soccer Club’s 2001 season on May 5, with spring start-up activities at Myrtle Philip and Whistler Secondary fields.

The Whistler Skating Club’s ice carnival is taking place this weekend, featuring an original production called Safari on Ice.

After growing in size for the five years, the Sea2Summit Adventure Racing Series of Vancouver has partnered with Trojan Sports and Event Marketing, a Toronto-based promotions company with a Vancouver office.

After weighing her many alternatives, Whistler’s Danielle O’Reilly decided that she couldn’t pass the Bucs.

The season wrapped up for young alpine hopefuls last weekend with the Coast Zone finals on Whistler Mountain.

After four crazy days and nights, the World Snowboarding Championship wrapped up in Mountain Square with more than 15,000 spectators and an annual Big Air contest that gets bigger every year.

Dozens of Whistler and Pemberton locals took part in the annual 10K Vancouver Sun Run on April 22, jostling their way through a record crowd of 45,080 people, more than 35,000 of whom were runners.

More than 200 amateur and professional skateboarders in the world, not to mention the best homegrown talent, will be in Vancouver from May 4 to 6 to compete in the annual Slam City Jam, part of the Vans Triple Crown of Skateboarding.