Local Sports

It wasn’t a Hoosiers ending, but the Whistler senior boys basketball team returned from the provincial ‘A’ division championships in Castlegar with their heads high, moving up two places in the rankings to 13th overall out of 16 teams.

They call the U.S. Open the Wimbledon of Snowboarding, for some reason, an A-list event that routinely draws the best riders in the world.

Whistler’s emerging triathlon community may be getting a little more organized if enough people turn out the Meadow Park Sports Centre on March 27 at 6:15 p.m.

Team Week 17 Total Royal Bank 11 234 Affinity Sports 11 216 Scotia Bank 3 215 Slopeside 16 208 W.

The FIS Snowboard World Cup season wrapped up in Ruka, Finland last weekend with Quebec’s Jasey Jay Anderson taking the Snowboard Cross (SBX) finals and the overall championship title.

Fernie’s Emily Brydon was named British Columbia’s top female Junior Athlete of the Year on Mar. 15 at a banquet held at the Hyatt Regency in Vancouver.

The Kokanee Valley Race Series continued on March 15, with a 39-gate giant slalom in soft packed snow on Ross’ Gold. Only one event remains on this season’s schedule, another GS on Blackcomb on March 29.

Over 60 gymnasts performed in Whistler Gymnastics annual ribbon day on March 7, as local tumblers strutted, flipped and balanced their stuff in the full range of events – vault, single bar, parallel bars, floor and trampoline.

Dynamic Women of the Run is inviting interested women of all ages and abilities to come out and train for the Edge to Edge Marathon Relay in Ucluelet on June 10.

The Kokanee Couloir Extreme is billed as the steepest giant slalom race on the planet, challenging skiers, boarders and telemarkers to make it from the lip of the Couloir to the base of Jersey Cream – 2,500 vertical feet of thigh-burning hell &#