KAMLOOPS - The Thompson Rivers University WolfPack men's soccer team has added a midfielder from the Netherlands ahead of the 2024-25 season. Mel Nelissen, from Maastricht, Netherlands spent the past seven years playing at the MVV Maastricht academy where he captained the U16 and U18 squads. "Mel is another really...

KAMLOOPS - The Kamloops Blazers selected two players on Wednesday (May 8) in the WHL U.S. Priority Draft. Kamloops nabbed forward Eli Tverdovsky of Los Angeles, Calif., with the sixth overall pick in the draft. Tverdovsky, a 5-foot-11, 154-pound right shot, is the son of former NHLer Oleg Tverdovsky and played most rec...

KAMLOOPS - Management and scouting teams across the Western Hockey League are making final adjustments to player rankings this week ahead of a pair of drafts. The Kamloops Blazers are slated to pick sixth overall and 23rd overall in the WHL U.S. Priority Draft, which is slated to get underway at 9:00 a.m. on Wednesday ...

BURNABY - Axemen Rugby Football Club of Squamish proved too sharp for the Kamloops Raiders in the B.C. Rugby Union men's Division 2 championship match on Saturday (May 4) in Burnaby. The Axemen claimed the provincial title with a 42-12 triumph over the Raiders, who enjoyed a bounce-back season prior to defeat in the fi...

FINLAND - Kamloops Blazers defenseman Harrison Brunicke is returning home from the IIHF U18 World Championship with a gold medal draped around his neck. Brunicke and Team Canada defeated the USA on Sunday (May 5) morning 6-4. The Canadians battled back from a 3-1 deficit, not leading in the contest until 13:00 minute m...

KAMLOOPS - After seeing their starting middle graduate last season, the Thompson Rivers University WolfPack have committed to a new big man.Jakob Leinemann has committed to the WolfPack after spending two season with Capilano University."Jakob fills one our biggest off-season needs, an experienced middle," sa...

Nanaimo, B.C. - Rivers FC starting a four week road trip in Nanaimo on Saturday evening, as the side battled Harbourside FC at Q'ung'inuqwstuxw Stadium. The women's team kicked-off first and found early success with Kambria Mellum scoring in the fourth minute of the contest. The home side would equal the score in the s...

PHOENIX - Former Kamloops Blazers goaltender Connor Ingram has been named one of three finalists for the NHL's Bill Masterton Memorial Trophy.The award recognizes the "player who best exemplifies the qualities of perseverance, sportsmanship and dedication to hockey."Playing for the Arizona Coyotes, Ingram had...

KAMLOOPS - Greg Thomson booted a late penalty goal to lift his Kamloops Raiders to a 28-27 victory over Vancouver Rowing Club in the men's Division 2 B.C. Rugby Union final on May 5, 2018, in Abbotsford. The victory marks the most recent men's B.C. championship victory for the Raiders, who are aiming to end the six-yea...

KAMLOOPS - Colton Meikle of the Kamloops Broncos has been invited to B.C. Lions' mini-camp, which gets underway on May 8 at Hillside Stadium.Meikle, a receiver from Kamloops, was invited to main camp after performing well at a recent evaluation camp in Langley.The CFL club assessed top players from the B.C. Football Co...

Rusty Brewer's husband, Bill, was a cowboy at Douglas Lake Cattle Company. After he died in a drowning accident, Rusty and her two- and four-year-old children moved to Merritt in 1976 and found comfort in hockey. Rusty got hooked on the game. And the game was a step-father, of sorts. Soon enough, she was a billet mothe...

KAMLOOPS -- Michelle Peters is confident she can lead the cash-strapped Kamloops Broncos to financial safety. That's why she took over the junior football club's presidency in February. "Because I wanted there to be a junior football team," said Peters, noting the team came perilously close to folding last ye...

The B.C. Hockey Conference (BCHC) issued a statement on Monday (April 29) to reinforce its commitment to operating inside the Hockey Canada umbrella. Earlier in the day, the Vancouver Island Junior Hockey League (VIJHL) announced its departure from the national governing body umbrella, opting to leave the Junior A tier...

KAMLOOPS - Kamloops' semi-pro soccer club kicked off their 2024 season at Hillside Stadium with a pair of results Sunday (April 28). Rivers FC's men's squad shut out Altitude FC from North Vancouver 1-0. Hagon Kim scored at the 36-minute mark and that was all Rivers FC needed to secure all three points. Meantime, River...

KAMLOOPS -- Rivers FC will begin its third season in semi-pro League 1 B.C. on Sunday (April 27) at Hillside Stadium, with Altitude FC of North Vancouver coming to town for men's and women's soccer matches.The women kick off at 3 p.m., with the men's game to follow at 5:30 p.m. Neither the men nor women have qualified ...

KAMLOOPS -- Saturday is a rugby day for the Kamloops Raiders - and it's a big one. It's semifinal Saturday (April 27), with spots up for grabs in B.C. Rugby Union finals. The Raiders' men are playing host to Kats Rugby Club of Kitsilano in Division 2 action, with kickoff scheduled for 1:30 p.m. at Exhibition Park. Mean...

KAMLOOPS - Logan Stankoven was with the Dallas Stars in the National Hockey League (NHL) for the final two months of the 2023-24 regular season but that didn't stop him from being the American Hockey League's (AHL) rookie of the year. The AHL announced on Thursday (April 25) that Stankoven was voted as the winner of th...

NAIROBI, KENYA - Ethan Katzberg of the Kamloops Track and Field Club dismantled his own Canadian record and recorded the ninth-longest heave in the history of men's hammer throw to win gold at the Kip Keino Classic on Saturday (April 20) in Nairobi, Kenya. Katzberg, the 22-year-old reigning world champion, launched the...

Kamloops skateboarder Matt Berger has put himself in good position to qualify for the 2024 Olympic Summer Games in Paris. "There is no question about it. I definitely want to come back, make it to Paris and, hopefully, do better," said Berger, who finished last in the street discipline in 20th place at the 20...

KAMLOOPS -- Simranjit Singh is trumpeting a new era for the Kamloops Cricket Club (KCC). "We are trying to establish the club for a long-term purpose and the main purpose is to implement and foster the game of cricket in the Interior and trying to get more people involved," said Singh, vice-president and secr...

MERRITT, B.C. - The new Merritt Centennials have their first head coach. In a news release issued Thursday (April 18) morning, the Centennials announced the hiring of Wes McLeod as their head coach and assistant general manager heading into the 2024-25 Kootenay International Junior Hockey League (KIJHL) season. The 31-...

KAMLOOPS - Kamloops Blazers' defenceman Harrison Brunicke received a double dose of notable news on Tuesday (April 16).Brunicke, 17, is one of six defencemen named to Hockey Canada's U-18 roster for the 2024 International Ice Hockey Federation Under-18 World Championship in Finland.The tournament is slated to run from ...

KAMLOOPS -- Kamloops Gymnastics and Trampoline Centre athlete Gavin Dodd has added to his substantial hardware collection. Dodd, 20, won two gold medals -- in double-mini trampoline and synchronized trampoline (along with Keegan Soehn) -- and placed sixth in senior men's individual trampoline at Trampoline Gymnastics E...

KAMLOOPS -- The Kamloops Rattlers will begin their Thompson Okanagan Senior Lacrosse League season on Sunday (April 14) with a game against the Kelowna Raiders.Game time is 4 p.m. at Memorial Arena. Alcohol will be served in the beer garden.

KAMLOOPS - The Kamloops Blazers will be represented behind the bench for the upcoming IIHF U18 World Championships, which will take place in Finland from April 25 to May 5.Longtime Blazers' goaltending coach Dan De Palma has been selected to fill that same role for Hockey Canada. De Palma has been with the Blazers sinc...

KAMLOOPS - Touted as one of the fastest growing sports in the country, pickleball is a relatively new sport - first created in the 1960s - but it's not a fad. The local club in Kamloops now has around 600 members, using any court space in the city they can get their hands on. CFJC crews paid a visit to the courts at Ri...

TORONTO - Kamloops skip Matt Dunstone and his Manitoba team that includes third B.J. Neufeld, second Colton Lott and lead Ryan Harnden, is chasing a Grand Slam of Curling title this week in Toronto.Team Dunstone is 1-1 at the Princess Auto Players' Championship following a 7-4 victory over Team Joël Retornaz of Tr...

KAMLOOPS -- Svyatik Artemenko of the TRU WolfPack men's soccer team is expected to be featured in the national sports spotlight.The WolfPack confirmed on Tuesday (April 9) that TSN is bringing a documentary crew to Kamloops this week to focus on the goalkeeper who was born in Odesa, Ukraine, but grew up in Winnipeg.Art...