Sports

You’ve heard these sorts of stories begin like this: team hasn’t travelled in two years, no tournaments to play, players nervous about how they’ll do, team goes out and wins division at provincial championship and goes undefeated to do it.

The first stage of Hockey NWT’s quest to find the boys and girls teams for the 2023 Canada Winter Games in Charlottetown is done.

It’s been three years since the Yellowknife Gymnastics Club has had anyone traversing around the country to compete in anything.

I know I’m a bit late on this but that’s how the deadlines work. I can’t let this go, though, without saying something on it.

Arctic Bay’s recreation co-ordinator has been hoping to get a baseball diamond for his community for quite some time.

In 2011, Yellowknife played host to the Canadian Men’s Para-Hockey Team so it only made sense that the women’s squad would follow suit.

As we begin the march toward the Canada Summer Games in Ontario this August, we celebrate the fact that major multi-sport games competitions have returned.

As the weather gets a bit more palatable to outdoor happenings, that means the indoor sports begin to wind down for another year.

While the younger players were out at the Fieldhouse looking to claim victory for real, the older kids had themselves a bit of fun between soccer games.

In normal times, the minor hockey season is Yellowknife would be finished well before now.