The Hay River pool will have a full complement of local staff watching over swimmers this summer. “Every one of our lifeguards has grown up in this town,” said Heather Tybring, the acting aquatic supervisor and a lifeguard of six years. “A lot of them have come up through the levels since they were [...]
Hay River teams took to the pitches in Yellowknife on the weekend of May 4 for the annual Super Soccer tournament, and netted one gold and two silver medals. The 15-and-under girls’ team from Ecole Boreale took first place over Diamond Jenness Secondary School girls, while the Diamond Jenness 15-and-under boys took silver in [...]
About a dozen track and field coaches gathered for a clinic at Diamond Jenness Secondary School over the weekend and learned the basics of the sport as well as effective ways to train young athletes in it. “We have a really good level of performance at a national level,” said Rita Moizis, a Grade [...]
Young gymnasts and their supportive parents and coaches packed the Princess Alexandra School gymnasium on April 27 for a variety of entertaining performances. Over 30 young athletes from the Hay River Gymnastics Club took part in a gymnaestrada – a non-competitive gymnastics event combining dance and music for all ages and skill levels – [...]
The Hay River Minor Hockey Association capped off an eventful season with its annual awards banquet on April 16. A large contingent of players, coaches, volunteers and parents packed the upstairs of the Royal Canadian Legion for a banquet and an opportunity to acclaim individual players for their outstanding performances. Atom, peewee, bantam and [...]
While most high school students were spending spring break vacationing, Mason Bruneau spent his time in intense training – and it paid off. Bruneau recently returned from the Edmonton International Judo Championships, held from April 5-7, with one gold and one silver medal in two separate categories: youth 21 and senior intermediate. It was [...]
In the blink of an eye, the Ben Sivertz Arena went from a raucous building to a silent one. The Yellowknife First Air Flyers stunned a packed barn on Saturday when they scored two-and-a-half minutes into overtime of Game 5 and, just like that, the playoff series was over. As the Flyers mobbed their [...]
Hay River’s Gavin Broadhead and the Medicine Hat Tigers have just pulled off an enormous upset in the first round of the Western Hockey League’s Eastern Conference playoffs. The seventh-seeded team was the underdog heading into the first-round series against the Saskatoon Blades, which finished 19 points ahead of the Tigers in the overall [...]
As the end of the curling season approaches, Hay River youth curlers concede it will be hard to take a hiatus from the sport throughout the summer. With ice going out at the end of this month, junior curling program participants came out to their annual windup on March 18 to mark the end [...]
Former Hay Riverite Michelle Brodeur knows a thing or two about how to manipulate snow. She grew up around lots of it, and she’s proven that familiarity this year with a silver medal at the U.S. Grand Prix Snowboardcross NorAm Cup on March 3 in Utah. “The Grand Prix was great. I finally felt [...]
