St. Albert swimmer Paige Kremer made the B finals in three long course events at the Canadian world championship trials last week at Saanich Commonwealth Pool.
The Olympian Swim Club member finished the 50-metre freestyle in third place for 11th overall at 26.32.
The Grade 11 Paul Kane High School student also placed sixth in the 50 fly for 14th overall at 27.94 and was seventh in the 100 back for 15th overall at 1:03.98.
Kremer, 16, joined Olympian teammates Emily Flowers and Georgia Kidd of St. Albert and Jacomie Strydom in setting a new 4x100 free relay record of 3:52.43 for fifth place in the final.
The Olympian line-up of Kremer, Kidd, Strydom and Ester Gonzalez also broke the provincial 4x100 medley relay record with a time of 4:18.20 for ninth place.
Jack Hanna equaled his ranking at the national juvenile wrestling championships with a fourth-place finish last weekend in Saskatoon.
Hanna competed in the 130-kilogram category in his first appearance at nationals. The Grade 11 football and rugby player at Bellerose Composite High School beat Shamus Tubman of Ontario 5-2 on points and lost 12-2 to Manheet Kahlon of British Columbia, 6-1 to Tim Glascon of Ontario and 3-1 to Ty Nordick of Moose Jaw.
Kahlon was ranked first in the division, followed by Nordick, Glascon, Hanna and Tubman.
Hanna was the 120-kg bronze medallist at the Alberta Schools’ Athletic Association wrestling championships after placing first at the Edmonton zone meet.
Players from the St. Albert Skyhawks’ senior and junior championship basketball teams were honoured at the recent Alberta Shooting Stars Showcase Weekend in Calgary.
Grade 12 forward Paige Knull was named the AAA player of the year and Grade 10 forwards Marinya Marcichiw and Brielle Wise were recipients of the AAA rookie of the year award.
The Skyhawks repeated as the undefeated metro Edmonton premier conference champions and won a historic fourth-straight 3A provincial gold medal.
Grade 10 guard Abby Schneider of the junior Skyhawks received a junior varsity rookie of the year award. The Skyhawks repeated as the premier junior champions in the metro league.
Last year Skyhawks’ graduate Kendall Lydon was the AAA player of the year, Kayla Ivicak of the Skyhawks was the AAA rookie of the year and Jessa Ivicak of the Vincent J. Maloney Marauders was the junior high player of the year.
This season Lydon, the 2012 metro premier female player of the year, played for the Alberta Pandas and the Ivicak sisters contributed to the Skyhawks’ 39-1 overall record.
The mission of the Alberta Shooting Stars program is to develop, showcase and promote girls’ basketball in the province.
Founded in 1990, the Shooting Stars is the only event that brings together hundreds of girls from across the province to one gym to compete.
This year Basketball Alberta used the showcase event as part of the identification and evaluation process for the female provincial team selections.
St. Albert Raiders’ assistant captain Tyler Dea was named to the Alberta Midget AAA Hockey League’s first all-star team on defence.
The second-year Raider was the team’s top defencemen with 14 assists and 16 points in 32 games.
The Grade 12 Ecole Secondaire Saint Marguerite d'Youville student was the only returning Raider on defence from the 2012 provincial finalists.
Last season he had four assists and five points in 34 games.
Justin MacDonald and Brady Nicholas of the peewee AA St. Albert Sabres are joining the Western Canada Selects’ international hockey program.
More than 300 invited players from across North America competed for 68 positions at the annual minor peewee international tryout in early January in St. Albert.
Those players selected are participating in the program’s international spring training development camp in Stockholm, Sweden and the World Selects Invitational in Helsinki, Finland in April and May.
The selection committee consisted of independent hockey evaluators, including head coach Brad Church, a longtime minor league player, Ottawa Senators’ goalie consultant John Stevenson, former pro Nathan Dempsey and other professional scouts.
Since 2003, Selects Hockey has worked with some of the top 12-to-16 year-old hockey players across North America and Europe.
