The St. Albert Nordic Ski Club hosts its fall open house Sunday at the STANSKI building in Kingswood Park.
Rental equipment pickups run from 4 to 5:30 p.m. and the members’ barbecue and activities for the children is from 4:45 to 6 p.m.
Online registration is through www.zone4.ca and a receipt copy is required prior to picking up equipment.
Visit www.stanski.ca for more information, or contact membership director Ken Chin at 780-240-1858 or [email protected].
Three players from the St. Albert Rugby Football Club were among the starting 15 for Team Canada in Tuesday’s match against the USA Eagles at the IRB Americas Rugby Championship in Langford, B.C.
Second row Kyle Baillie, flanker Kyle Gilmour and winger Duncan Maguire were in the line-up as the Eagles upset Canada 30-10.
Last weekend in the tournament opener, Canada beat Uruguay 17-10 with Maguire at wing and Andy Tiedemann of St. Albert at prop. Tiedemann, captain of the Canadian squad, sustained a cut on his head in the first half and was forced to exit the match.
Canada’s last match in the tournament is today against Argentina.
The reigning President’s Cup playoff champions at the St. Albert Curling Club are competing for a berth at nationals at the Dominion club provincials this weekend in Fort St. John.
With skip Christina Monk on maternity leave, Lauren Jenkyns was promoted from third to call the shots for Kathy Piper, Laurie Schreiner and pick-up Diana Backer.
Jenkyns also curls on Doug McLennan’s perennial mixed President’s Cup championship rink.
Backer is a silver medallist with the Deb Santos’ rink of St. Albert at the 2013 Canadian Senior Curling Championships. She was also the coach of the Jasper Place-based Team Canada ladies’ rink that lost the final of the second annual World Deaf Curling Championships to Switzerland this year.
The Dominion champion advances to nationals, Nov. 18 to 23 in Thunder Bay, Ont. With Monk at the controls at the Dominion northerns in March, the winners of the 2013 St. Albert Centre Ladies Bonspiel finished 4-1 as the B-event qualifiers for a trip to provincials.
In the St. Albert Wednesday night league the ladies are 3-0.
The Team Alberta roster for the Western Canada U16 Challenge Cup features a strong St. Albert connection on the ice and behind the bench.
St. Albert resident Serge Lajoie of the NAIT Ooks is the head coach and Fiorillo Umberto, co-coach of the midget AAA St. Albert Raiders, is an assistant coach.
Raiders forward Parker Aucoin and St. Albert defenceman Josh Mahura of the Okanagan Hockey Academy midget prep team made the provincial line-up.
In the 2013 Western Hockey League bantam draft, Aucoin was the Tri-City Americans’ first pick (15th overall) after racking up 63 goals in 33 games as captain of the Calgary Northstar Sabres, the second-highest total in Alberta Major Bantam Hockey League history. His 87 points ranked third in the AMBHL scoring race and he was named the south division’s most valuable player.
Parker has two assists in five games with the Raiders.
Mahura was selected by the Red Deer Rebels in the second round (36th overall) as the ninth defenceman taken in the bantam draft.
The captain of the bantam AAA St. Albert Sabres was among 42 bantam-age players from across Canada to play in the third annual Allstate All-Canadians Mentorship Cup in Mississauga, Ont. The invitation only mentorship camp was hosted by the National Hockey League Players’ Association.
Mahura has eight goals and eight assists in 13 games with the Okanagan academy.
The Challenge Cup starts Oct. 31 in Calgary and includes teams from British Columbia, Saskatchewan and Manitoba. Visit www.hockeyalberta.ca for more information.
Racquetball Canada has launched a Let’s Play Racquetball initiative to increase participation in the sport by making it more visible and accessible to all age groups and skill levels.
“We’ve had support from the suppliers who are supplying playing gear so we’ll be running clinics in every province for new players to come out and use the gear and try and play the game and learn the game. There will be people at the clinics coaching and teaching them and this is going right across Canada,” said Racquetball Canada president Jack McBride of St. Albert.
Visit www.letsplayracquetball.ca for more information, or contact Alberta Racquetball executive director Barbara May of St. Albert at 780-918-5332 or [email protected].
