Andrea Hebert has yet to decide where she will play university basketball next season. Photo by Eric Labonté. Decision time is approaching for Andrea Hebert. The Grade 12 student at...
A recruiting trip to Missouri in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic convinced Krysten Schuster to join the NCAA Division 2 Drury University Panthers women’s soccer team. “Going down and...
For the past 20 years, Dave (Max) Maxwell has officiated upwards of 50 football games a year. “I love it, I just love it and I wish I would have...
Stefanie DeMizio has a simple answer for why she started coaching the moment she entered the teaching profession 17 years ago. “It’s the kids,” the 37-year-old Niagara Falls native said....
Thanks to Canadian Tire Jumpstart Charities, the Niagara Olympic Club will be able to provide its athletes with one-stop training. The charity, founded in 2005 to help kids overcome financial...
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...