Local Sports

If you thought the Whistler Ultimate season was over with the league championships, you obviously underestimated the enthusiasm of local players. Every Wednesday, starting at 6 p.m. there will be drop-in Ultimate at Spruce Grove.

The Canadian Alpine Ski Team got the season off to an early start last week with a downhill at La Parva, Chile at the Kandahar of the Andes race.

Saturday’s Cheakamus Challenge Fall Classic Mountain Bike Race is considered the last big event of the mountain bike season.

The library offers a variety of programs for children throughout the year. Attending story time with your child is fun and educational for both of you.

SPECIAL EVENTS SEA TO SKY FILM FESTIVAL . The sixth annual festival rolls Sept. 21 at the Eagle Eye Theatre at Howe Sound secondary in Squamish. Tickets available from Mostly Books, Highlands Video and Howe Sound Inn.

More than 300 triathletes were in Whistler on Sept.

After its most successful summer of competitive swimming ever, the Whistler Swim Club dives into the new season on Monday, Sept. 24 at Meadow Park. Brandi Higgins, the current masters coach, was appointed Head Coach of the new club.

You didn’t have to be crazy to take part in the first annual Samurai of Singletrack last weekend, but it helped.

Canadian mountain bikers medal at World Championships, led by Roland Green Once again Roland Green made it look easy.

In last weeks’ coverage of the freestyle aerials World Cup at Mount Buller in Australia, it was reported that the women’s team had trouble on the first day of competition when in fact Pascale Gadbois of Coteau-du-Lac, Quebec, a newcomer to