Category Archives: (Portal- NanaimoNewsNow) Local Sports
Nanaimo Adult Hockey League returns after eight month absence
NANAIMO - Local recreational hockey players haven’t been on the ice since March but that’s about to change with the beginning of a new season. The Nanaimo Adult Hockey League will resume p...
Dan Marshall Nov 14, 2020
VIJHL hits pause on season after Nanaimo school reports COVID-19 exposure
NANAIMO - A number of teams in the Vancouver Island Junior Hockey League is pressing pause on their season for one week. Following a confirmed COVID-19 exposure at Dover Secondary School in Nanaimo, t...
NanaimoNewsNOW Staff Nov 10, 2020
New rules and innovations highlight return to play at Nanaimo Curling Club
NANAIMO - It’s about one month later than usual but the local curling season is now underway. The Nanaimo club was one of the first to establish return to play guidelines, including a laneway sy...
Dan Marshall Nov 05, 2020
Three Nanaimo pole vaulters leap to personal bests in shortened season
NANAIMO - Three local pole vaulters set personal bests in a shortened season with only three meets in October. Sonya Urbanowicz, the 2019 national champion and BC record holder in the U-16 division, c...
Dan Marshall Oct 29, 2020
Basketball camps offered for K-12 students in Nanaimo
NANAIMO - Basketball camps for school age kids have returned. Island Swish is a six week program for kindergarten to Grade 8 students, running Saturday’s out of the new gym at Aspengrove School....
Dan Marshall Oct 27, 2020
Nanaimo racewalker sets new Canadian record in 3 kilometre event
NANAIMO - It took all of one event for Olivia Lundman to break a Canadian record. The 17-year-old Dover Bay student was the only competitor in the three kilometre U18 racewalk in Kamloops on Oct. 17. ...
Dan Marshall Oct 22, 2020
VIU Mariners players seek alternate competition amid paused university season
NANAIMO - The VIU Mariners soccer team will have to wait awhile before they can defend their 2019 PACWEST title and get back to the CCAA national tournament. But most of the players are playing this f...
Dan Marshall Oct 16, 2020
Nanaimo kettlebell competition takes innovative approach to continued competition
NANAIMO - The fourth Grip Strength Invitational took on a slightly different form but the Harbour City’s annual kettlebell competition was a success. The two day event featured 16 lifters almost...
Dan Marshall Oct 08, 2020
“It’s a marvel” – Vancouver Island’s Levins to race in London marathon bubble Sunday
TORONTO — A Vancouver Island-born marathon runner is preparing for the upcoming London Marathon in extreme circumstances. Cameron Levins is in a compound somewhere outside England’s capita...
The Canadian Press Oct 01, 2020
Buccaneers first hockey team in Nanaimo to start regular season
NANAIMO - The first local hockey team to start a 2020/2021 regular season is the Nanaimo Buccaneers. The VIJHL will begin play on Oct. 1 when the Bucs host the Oceanside Generals. There are eight game...
Dan Marshall Sep 30, 2020
