Category Archives: (Portal- NanaimoNewsNow) Local Sports

NANAIMO - VIU athletes have had to deal with many challenges returning to play in 2022. Several games have been postponed because of COVID-19 with the only game to get off the ground in the first week...

NANAIMO - Registration is underway for early 2022 soccer sessions with Nanaimo United. A number of eight week programs are set to begin the week of Jan. 10 including Happy Cleats for kids three to six...

NANAIMO - Volunteer members of the Nanaimo Canoe Kayak Club have been hard at work installing a metal roof on their boat storage facility at Loudon Park. The project was made possible thanks to a dona...

NANAIMO - The Nanaimo Sport Achievement Awards are set to be an in-person event once again in 2022. The awards were announced virtually in 2021 but the upcoming 17th annual ceremony will be held on Fe...

EDMONTON - Amid rising COVID-19 cases among players and cancelled/forfeited games, the ongoing World Junior Hockey Championship in Edmonton and Red Deer, AB is cancelled. The announcement from the Int...

NANAIMO - For some local athletes 2021 was a return to competition while for others the waiting game continued. Nanaimo’s Dylan Coghlan scored his first NHL goal for the Vegas Golden Knights on ...

NANAIMO - Dover Bay Secondary’s senior AAAA girls volleyball team had more than just wins and losses on their minds this season. It was a year that saw a return to play from COVID-19, but also h...

NANAIMO - Island Top team is back on the mat with two Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu fall tournaments. A typical year might contain 10-14 events but pandemic-era rules have put things largely on hold. Head instr...

NANAIMO - A local couple have found their way to the international curling scene, representing a country over 8,000 kilometres away from home. April Gale-Seixeiro is the president of the Nanaimo Curli...

NANAIMO - A work shop converted into a dedicated training facility is rumbling with the next potential generation of pro wrestlers. The vision was orchestrated by 36-year-old BJ Laredo, a key architec...