Pond Inlet receives grant from Jays Care Foundation to help rebuild baseball field
The Toronto Blue Jays may not ever get to Pond Inlet anytime soon but a piece of the team will be around in the community for years to come. The Jays Care Foundation, the Blue Jays’ charitable organization, announced on April 14 that Pond Inlet was one of 15 communities around Canada to receive a...
Basketball program a slam dunk for Inuvik youth
A nation-wide basketball program for Canadian youth that made its way to Inuvik for the first time earlier this year continues to attract a high volume of young ballers to the court every weekend. Canada’s exclusive “Jr. NBA” basketball program is designed to introduce youth between the ages of five to 12 to the game...
Kiah Vail set to play in Esso Cup national midget girls hockey championship again
Fort Smith’s Kiah Vail has already tasted the sweet victory of the Esso Cup, the national midget girls hockey championship, having won in with the St. Albert Slash last year in Nova Scotia. This year, it’s all about making sure the Slash leave a legacy. Vail and her Slash are the Pacific region representatives for...
Gjoa Haven and Naujaat share spoils at Gold Diggers Volleyball Tournament
Big money and big bragging rights in the Kitikmeot region were up for grabs on the volleyball court earlier this month. The Gold Diggers Volleyball Tournament brought together a total of 16 teams – eight men’s and eight women’s – from Taloyoak, Naujaat and Gjoa Haven, the host community and when the dust settled, it...
Potential Volleyball Club 16U girls win division in Calgary
It’s the only Alberta Volleyball Premier Tournament the Potential Volleyball Club’s 16U girls will play this season but they made it count. The squad came out on top in Division 5 at the Premier 3 Tournament in Calgary on Sunday thanks to a straight sets win over the Canuck Stuff Volleyball Club from the host...
Kevin Koe collects silver medal at World Men’s Curling Championship
Kevin Koe had managed a week’s worth of heroics at the World Men’s Curling Championship in Lethbridge, Alta., with some stunning shots to pull his rink out of danger at the opportune time. His luck, though, ran out on Sunday. Koe, who was wearing the maple leaf as Team Canada, fell to Sweden’s Niklas Edin...
Eekeeluak Avalak wins silver medal at Canadian Wrestling Championships
There’s a wonderful think about being from Nunavut and going to a national championship. No one takes you seriously until you beat them and even then, they still don’t take you seriously. Eekeeluak Avalak of Cambridge Bay was in that sort of situation at the U17/U19 Canadian Wrestling Championships in Fredericton, N.B., on Saturday and...
Peewee Canucks dominate in Winnipeg
All three Kivalliq Jr. Canucks teams made a good showing at a Winnipeg hockey tournament March 22 to 24, but one team really outshone the competition: the peewees. “Every game they had a mercy except one, the third game, but every other game was 8-0,” said Gleason Uppahuak, one of the team coaches. “Even the...
SPORTS TALK: Our apologies to Terry Jones for being from the North
In case you haven’t heard, there was no Nunavut entry in either the boys or girls at the recent Canadian U18 Curling Championships in Sherwood Park, Alta. The NWT was there, as they always are, but no Nunavut. It’s a shame because it looks like a fun event not only for the amount of good...
Yellowknife looks to host Hockey Day in Canada 2020
The national broadcasting event Hockey Day in Canada may be on its way to Yellowknife in February 2020, if city council approves it. Councillors were given a presentation on Monday with a memo from Johanna Elliot, the city’s facilities manager, on the benefits of endorsing Hockey Day in Canada. The event, which entails music, cultural...
Junior curlers share their knowledge with Inuvik youth
In an effort to attract a younger demographic to the sport, members of Inuvik’s Team Bain female junior curling team facilitated a curling night for budding curlers at the town’s curling club on March 27. A total of 12 girls between the ages of nine and 12 came out to learn more about the sport,...
Twelfth time lucky for Richard Beck in Canadian Championship Dog Derby
In a surprise twist this year, the Canadian Championship Dog Derby was won by a member of the Beck family. Chances are you knew that already. Richard Beck proved yet again that he’s still a perennial contender in the 10-dog 150-mile main event race as he took top spot for the 12th time on Sunday,...
Sage Acorn wins division at Canada West Short Track Championships
We’ve all read and heard about how Wren Acorn is making her charge against the elite junior speedskaters of the country. But there’s another member of the Acorn clan who’s beginning to make some noise and he announced his intentions last weekend in Grande Prairie, Alta. Sage Acorn, Wren’s younger brother, is the best of...
Three-peat of college hockey titles for Yellowknife’s Jacob Schofield
If you’re going to close out your college hockey career, you may as well do it in style. Jacob Schofield got the chance to do just that on Saturday night as the Yellowknife star helped MacEwan University to the Alberta Colleges Athletics Conference (ACAC) men’s hockey title for the third year running. Not only that,...
Inuvik introduces curling to Germans
Members from a German documentary film crew visiting from New York spent their final night in Inuvik drinking beer and throwing rocks at the town’s Curling Club on March 22. The team from the New York bureau of Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen (ZDF), a German public service broadcaster, spent 10 days in Inuvik creating a reportage...
Another top-10 for Wren Acorn at national event
Wren Acorn’s competitive season is done and she wrapped it up with another fine showing on the national stage. The 15-year-old competed at the Canadian Junior Selection Meet in Sherbrooke, Que., last weekend and finished in ninth place overall on the girls side, scoring a total of 7,813 points from her three races. Each race...
Skiers wrap up season at Canadian Ski Championships
You could forgive the Yellowknife Ski Club’s high performance program if they seem a bit fatigued. They have, after all, had a busy last few weeks of competition. The program’s competitive season is all done following the completion of the Canadian Ski Championships at the Nakkertok Ski Club in Gatineau, Que., on Wednesday. The mass...
Yk gymnasts win big at University of Calgary International Cup
If you were to ask the Yellowknife Gymnastics Club, it was worth the trip to Calgary last weekend. A total of 12 gymnasts from the club competed at the University of Calgary International Cup and for four of them, it was a very successful trip as between them, they won eight medals. Emma Leathem was...
Frostbite 50 brings out dozens of competitors for annual event
It would be hard to say you got frostbite at this year’s Frostbite 50. The Yk Multisport Club’s annual event happened on a very warm Sunday, with dozens of entrants trying their luck to ski or snowshoe a 50-km course starting at 10 a.m. and finishing at the Yellowknife Ski Club. When it came to...
DT Electric Futures U13 and U15 basketball squads win seventh place games at Alberta...
For the first time, Basketball NWT had teams playing in the Alberta Basketball Youth Provincials. And it wasn’t a blowout by any stretch of the imagination. The DT Electric Futures program was a U13 and U15 boys team entered in the C/D division of their respective age brackets and both teams finished in seventh place....
Jamie Koe skips rink to victory at NWT Mixed Curling Championship
Jamie Koe is all done with curling for this season and he ended off on a winning note. Koe skipped his rink of Kerry Galusha, David Aho and Megan Koehler to victory at the NWT Mixed Curling Championship in Fort Smith on Sunday thanks to a 9-2 win over Hay River’s Darcy Delorey in the...
Inuvik Curling Club hosts second annual Mixed Doubles Funspiel
The Inuvik Curling Club hosted its second annual Mixed Doubles Funspiel on March 17, where nine teams came out to the Midnight Sun Complex and competed for cash prizes. “We ran it last March also, so this is kind of a year end wrap up,” said Nick Saturnino, president of the Inuvik Curling Club. “It’s...
Yellowknife rinks win titles at NWT Seniors Curling Championships
What’s old is new again when it comes to seniors curling in the NWT. No pun intended. But the two rinks heading to the Canadian Seniors Curling Championships in Chilliwack, B.C., later this month are exactly as they were one year ago. Sharon Cormier and Glen Hudy led their rinks to victory at the NWT...
NWT Darts Championships sees men’s and women’s teams selected for Canadian Championships in June
The Canadian National Darts Championships are happening in Saskatoon in June and Team NWT will be right there battling with the rest of the country. And if what some of the team members are saying is true, this could be a good year. The men’s and women’s teams were finalized at the NWT Darts Championships...
A&K best KIA to claim crown
Craig Aglukark scored 1:24 into the first overtime period to give A&K a 5-4 win over the KIA to take the Rankin Inlet Senior Men’s Hockey League championship three games to two. The championship series was a hard-fought affair, with four of the five games decided by a single goal and three needing overtime to...
Traditions celebrated at the seventh annual Northern and Dene Games Summit
A total of 180 athletes from each community in the Beaufort Delta Region participated in the seventh annual Northern and Dene Games Summit that took place at Inuvik’s East Three Secondary School from March 6 to 9. “This is one of the very rare times and – at least at this scale – it is...
Taking to the martial arts in Arviat
A new taekwon-do club is kicking up a pile of enthusiasm in Arviat. The club is led by the husband-and-wife team of John Arnalukjuak High School (JAHS) principal Don Peters and his spouse, Joanne. Taekwon-do (art of kicking and punching) is the Korean art of unarmed combat that is based on karate and the earlier...
Four times lucky for Kevin Koe at Tim Hortons Brier
For the fifth time in his career, Kevin Koe will have the honour of wearing the maple leaf in international play. It will be the first time he’ll get to wear it while on home turf as the national men’s curling champion. Koe and his rink of B.J. Neufeld, Colton Flasch and Ben Hebert are...
Kerry Galusha talks about disappointment of missing playoffs at Scotties Tournament of Hearts
The NWT has missed the playoffs at the Scotties Tournament of Hearts many times before. No need to belabour that fact. This year, though, it was meant to be different. Kerry Galusha and her rink of Sarah Koltun, Brittany Tran, Shona Barbour and Megan Koehler had travelled, played the World Curling Tour circuit,and even saw...
Yk karateka wins top spot in novice shindo at South Calgary Wado Kai Karate...
When you travel to any sports tournament, you want to do well. After all, it’s not cheap to travel from Yellowknife to anywhere. Matthew Bui, though, did well enough that he came home sporting some new neckware. Bui is the owner of a gold medal after winning the novice division in shindo (three-foot staff) at...