Local Sports

Players hoping to become one of the first Cold Lake Fighter Jets hit the field in Bonnyville. Over 30 athletes took part in the team’s first training camp at Walsh Field from Friday, May 3 to Sunday, May 5.

The Mallaig Stingers girls’ team are provincial team handball champions after a nail-biting overtime victory in the final against the Old Scona Academic Olympians on April 27, in Lacombe.

Four local hockey players will hit the ice in the 2019 Peewee Prospect Cup. Ismail Abougouche, Jacob Labant, Cash Capjack, and Cael Charlton from the Lakeland Panthers peewee AA team were successful in their tryouts for the tournament.

Bonnyville will have representation on the ice at a national-level. Local Ali Macaulay was named a member of the Alberta National Hockey Team for the second year in a row.

Fans will have the chance to cheer on two hometown boys after the Bonnyville Jr. A Pontiacs signed a second local player to their roster. Bonnyville-native Austin Saint will be sporting the Pontiac jersey for the 2019/20 season.

This upcoming summer will mark the inaugural season of the Lakeland Men’s Fastball League.

Local faces will be representing Bonnyville on Football Alberta's teams this year. Quarterback Silas Fagnan was chosen to be part of the Senior Bowl, while offensive linemen Kistin and Navarone Watchmaker were announced for the U17 roster.

To mark their year-end , the Lac La Biche & District Curling Club held a mixed bonspiel on April 5-7 at the local curling rink in the Bold Center.

A Lac La Biche local, Carrie Lecuyer — an experienced and recognized Career Practitioner and Life Coach — has organized a series of Spring into Action workshops at the Key-Way-Tin during the month of May for locals to get inspired, informed and off t

Four local football players were invited to participate in the inaugural Alberta Wild Rose Bowl. Brady Christians, John Neumann, and Mason Ward, all 16-years-old, made the varsity team, while Zayden Ward, 12, made it at the freshman-level.