The COVID-19 pandemic has claimed the Ontario Federation of School Athletic Associations winter sports season. “After a meeting of our Return to Sports Working Group in recent days, OFSAA’s Executive...
For the past year and a half, multi-talented Mia Friesen has been agonizing over whether to pursue track and field or wrestling at the post-secondary level. “I cried a lot,”...
From the moment Maryann Mergl arrived at E.L. Crossley 27 years ago, she has become a fixture in the ranks of Niagara’s high school coaches. The 51-year-old native of Sarnia...
Niagara Basketball United is ready to hit the floor running. After being delayed by the COVID-19 pandemic, the travel basketball program, spearheaded by Brock University men’s basketball head coach Willy...
Heather Sweezey would be the first to admit a teaching career wasn’t one of her lifelong dreams. “I actually went into teaching because I had just finished my first degree...
Delayed more than two months by the COVID-19 pandemic, non-contact tryouts for the Niagara Juel and Juel Prep teams will begin Nov. 15. “I am excited about getting together with...
Like several of his Notre Dame teammates, Jarod Tessier saw his 12B season of high school football terminated by the COVID-19 pandemic. “It was a tough one because I didn’t...
Kaia Schilte has set an extremely high goal for her soccer career. “My aunt is my biggest role model, I look up to her in everything she does and I...
Andre Pacheco was looking to create something different in Niagara. The 34-year-old native of Bermuda, who moved to Canada in 2007, decided to do just that by taking over soccer...
Playing NCAA Division 1 soccer has been on Demi Maroudas’ radar for more than five years. The 17-year-old Niagara-on-the-Lake native joined the Western New York Flash in Grade 8 and...