Category Archives: Local Sports
Devils hire Recchi as assistant coach
KAMLOOPS --- Mark Recchi has a new job.The Hockey Hall of Fame'er from Kamloops has been hired by the New Jersey Devils as an assistant coach to new head coach Lindy Ruff.Recchi was part of the purge ...
Sep 08, 2020
Kamloops minor hockey feeling the pinch with limited ice times in the city
KAMLOOPS - The start of minor hockey is in the air. Rep tryouts are going this week at McArthur Island. It's the beginning of what players hope is a full season amid the pandemic, but the Kamloops Min...
Sep 04, 2020
KIJHL announces plans for the 2020-21 season
KAMLOOPS - The Kootenay International Junior Hockey League has announced the size, shape, and format for the 2020-21 season. There will be 17 teams. Hopefully, with the way 2020 has gone, this is not ...
Sep 03, 2020
TRU WolfPack women using off year to grow as a young team
KAMLOOPS - The TRU women are seeing the cancelled season as a growth opportunity. It's still a young program. With nine new recruits coming in, it's a chance for the rookies to get used to head coach ...
Sep 02, 2020
West Coast League (baseball) expanding to Kamloops
KAMLOOPS --- Kamloops is getting an expansion team in the West Coast League ---- a collegiate summer baseball league with teams in B.C., Washington and Oregon.With expansion to Kamloops and Nanaimo in...
Sep 02, 2020
ViaSport BC clarifies some of the confusion around "cohorts" for Phase 3 of the return-to-play plan
KAMLOOPS - While entire seasons have been cancelled this summer due to COVID-19, there is still hope for some amateur athletes preparing for their fall season and itching to get back. ViaSport BC, the...
Aug 28, 2020
Kamloops' Team Brown named team of the year by Curl B.C.
KAMLOOPS --- Curl B.C. has announced its award recipients for the 2019-2020 season.Team Brown from Kamloops has een named the adult team of the year.Comprising skip Corryn Brown, third Erin Pincott, s...
Aug 26, 2020
Former Blazer Kneen signs in ECHL
KAMLOOPS --- Last week Zane Franklin signed with the Allen Americans in the ECHL. Franklin will see a familiar face when he arrives to play with the Texas based team. His former Kamloops Blazers teamm...
Aug 25, 2020
'We don't want to lose any momentum': WolfPack men's soccer start training despite no season
KAMLOOPS - It's the time of year when the TRU WolfPack would be starting their Canada West season on the pitch. That was cancelled due to the pandemic, but the WolfPack are still training at the newly...
Aug 25, 2020
Hall of Fame and Sports Council Awards
KAMLOOPS - The Kamloops Sports Hall of Fame inductions and Sports Council Awards were presented last night (Aug. 21).Normally held in the spring, the ceremony was postponed because of COVID-19 and was...
Aug 22, 2020
