Local Sports

By Chevi Rabbit, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, Alberta Native News

After a couple of close games, the Donalda School Girls Basketball team has taken the Central West Alberta Junior High Schools Athletic Association (CWAJHAA) title, the first in the team’s history, for the 2023 season after a final tournament in Rocky Mountain House.

Spectators took to the Wetaskiwin Ag Grounds Saturday March 4, to watch daring participants race down the snow in skijoring.

“Once a volunteer, always a volunteer” pretty well describes Don Forth’s life. As a young father he started out coaching his son’s hockey teams before becoming a hockey referee officiating youth and then “old timers”. Don was always interested in stock car racing and in 1968 he was part of the founding group of the Wetaskiwin Stock Car Club (WSCC).

County of Wetaskiwin youth participated in the Hockey Hooky for Ben fundraiser this week and their efforts have helped raise over $3,000 for the Ben Stelter Fund and the Stollery Children’s Hospital Foundation.

With softball season just around the corner, the members of Central Alberta Softball Umpires Association (CASUA) are seeking volunteers.

Following a three-year hiatus because of the Coronavirus pandemic, the Wetaskiwin & County Sports Hall of Fame is set to hold a banquet and induction ceremony Saturday April 15, 2023.

Maskwacis youth will have the opportunity to learn one-on-one with an internationally accomplished, female, First Nations bronc rider, Kaila Mussell in April.

Snowmobile drag races return just north of Wetaskiwin this Saturday

By Sam Laskaris, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, Windspeaker.com