For the past 21 years, Joanne Thomson has been a coach of all trades at A.N. Myer Secondary School in Niagara Falls. The Niagara Falls native and Myer alumna has...
Shake the Melnick family tree and out falls a bevy of high-calibre volleyball players. Found in the highest branches is mother, Dale Ann Melnick, who won two Southeastern Conference championships...
The University of Guelph has been chasing runner Eric Campbell for a long time. The Grade 12 student at Sir Winston Churchill first came to the attention of the school’s...
The roots of the Thorold Elite Track Club can be traced back to 2011 when a then-Grade 10 student at Thorold Secondary School, Amy Browett, went around the school asking...
Kevin Moore had no noble intentions when he decided to become a basketball ref 25 years ago. “A friend of mine (Mike Holmes), who I was teaching with, suggested that...
Denis Morris' Michael Conlon (2) was awarded the Mike Mitruk Bursary by the Welland Tribune Boys Basketball Tournament. In normal times, the Welland Tribune Boys Basketball Tournament would be in...
Even during COVID-19 times, Michele O’Keefe has her hands full as Niagara College’s associate director of athletics and recreation and serving on the FIBA Central Board and the Canada Summer...
Lauren Audino’s seven days in captivity ended Wednesday. The 17-year-old Welland native joined the NCAA Division 1 Western Michigan Broncos women’s basketball team in late December and had to quarantine...
Jenna Pollock’s signing ceremony with Boston College wasn’t quite what she expected. The Grade 12 student at Sir Winston Churchill was in Richmond , B.C., from September until December, training...
No one needs to tell St. Francis basketball coach Jon Marcheterre how hard David Picard works. “He is a throwback, hardworking, honest, shake your hand and look you in the...
