Local Sports

Sometimes, life has a way of working out in ways you’d least expect. For Sylvan Lake resident Brett Gardiner, who has a successful career as an announcer for the Canadian Professional Rodeo Association (CPRA), the work found him, instead of the other way around.

Curling is back at the NexSource Centre for the 2022/2023 season and there are spots still available in the curling league.

A large crowd of fans and spectators gathered at the football field Sunday afternoon to cheer the Sylvan Lake Atom Tigers on to victory in their first-ever home game.

The HJ Cody Lakers football team finished the regular season in second place after a nail-biter of a game on Oct. 13 in Stettler against the Wildcats.

The Fox Run Fury senior volleyball teams competed in a pre-season tournament on Sept. 23 and 24, held at Hunting Hills High School in Red Deer.

The Sylvan Lake Wranglers played two away games last week, launching the regular season that will run until the end of November.

This year marks a quarter of a century that youth football has been played in Sylvan Lake and so far the season is off to a strong start.

The expedition was a way to meet fans

They defeated the Giants in two games

Dean Dereniuk and Carla Smith defended their championships at the Meadowlands Open Golf Tournament on July 23 and 24. Dereniuk, the CPGA head professional at Meadowlands, shot a 72 on Saturday to par the course and finished with a 75 Sunday for a 36-hole total of 147 to take the men’s championship. He won by four strokes over Fin Vermette. Vermette is a junior, but he competed with the men because he was the only entry in the junior category and thus won the junior title.