A record 100 medals wasn't exactly on the radar for Team Alberta at the 2019 Canada Winter Games, but that mark goes to show how much the home athletes stepped up over the last two weeks. Going into the final day of competition Saturday with a record-high 93 medals in-hand, Alberta added seven more, including gold in w...

Team Alberta has officially had its most successful Canada Winter Games in history. With five medals on Friday, Alberta surpassed its personal all-time mark of 91 medals, which was set at the 2003 Games in Bathurst-Campbellton, New Brunswick. Alberta now sits at 93 heading into the final day of competition Saturday, in...

The extensive reach of the 2019 Canada Winter Games cannot be understated, and has been showcased over the last two weeks by people like Ester Pinheiro. The 21-year-old from Belo Horizonte, Brazil had never been to Canada until arriving to be a media services volunteer at the Repsol Sport Centre in Calgary, where artis...

RED DEER- His program finished, Jeff Leung remains seated in the kiss and cry at these Canada Winter Games, a broad smile beaming across his face. He isn't going anywhere for a while. Moments earlier, Leung, a Special Olympics athletes from Team B.C., had skated off the ice to a rousing ovation, absorbing the cheers wi...

Team Alberta earned a berth in the female hockey semifinals at the 2019 Canada Winter Games with a 3-0 win over Manitoba in the quarterfinals Thursday at the Downtown Arena. It was a 0-0 score through 20 minutes with Alberta killing off three minor penalties to keep the game goalless. In the second, Teghan Inglis put A...

Team Alberta has set one provincial record and is one the verge of breaking another at the 2019 Canada Winter Games in Red Deer. Alberta athletes won seven medals on Thursday, including three gold medals bringing their total to 31 to surpass the mark for the most gold medals earned by the province during a single Canad...

While many are focused on the competitions taking place at the 2019 Canada Winter Games, there is a group of unique volunteers here sharing stories about their homeland. Nine members of the Nunavut Ambassador Program are in Red Deer as accredited volunteers and have been teaching people about some of the traditions of ...

Red Deer athlete reaches goal in archery The individual female compound archery playoffs wrapped up Thursday at Westerner Park. Kaitlyn Wiley from Red Deer fell short in her quarterfinal match, losing to Ontario's Abigail Bunn. Despite what she described as a tough competition, Wiley is happy on how she performed. &quo...

Medals, medals and more medals. By the time competition was over, Wednesday was Team Alberta's best day yet at the 2019 Canada Winter Games with a most impressive haul of 17 medals. With three days of competition remaining, the home province appears on its way to reacings its goal of finishing in the top three in the o...

Players from Canada's U18 Women's hockey team participated in a fun game of road hockey at the 2019 Canada Winter Games Athletes' Village at RDC on Wednesday. All but two players from Canada's gold medal winning team at the IIHF U18 Women's World Championship in Japan last month are now representing their province at t...

It was Super Tuesday for Team Alberta at the 2019 Canada Winter Games with home province athletes earning 13 medals (five gold, five silver and three bronze). The last time Alberta had a 12-medal day was February 23, 2011, in Halifax. Red Deer's own Kalena Soehn and Zach Blakely, who won medals Monday in the individual...

Alberta has had a solid start to the 2019 Canada Winter Games curling competition with both the men's and women's teams opening with strong performances. On the men's side, Alberta has started the tournament at 3-1 through their first four games with wins over Quebec, Northwest Territories and most recently a tight win...

The Canada Winter Games provides an amazing opportunity for so many athletes and coaches, including women and girls who might otherwise not be involved in sport. Monday night, the Coaching Association of Canada (CAC) held a panel discussion at Coach House in Athletes' Village at RDC with a focus on keeping girls in spo...

Save for one broken down bus which caused a short delay to competition, the Calgary portion of the 2019 Canada Winter Games went off without a hitch. Artistic swimming was held during week one at the Repsol Sport Centre, and halfpipe athletes will battle it out at Canada Olympic Park during week two. Alpine skiing even...

Red Deer athletes won not one, but two medals on home turf Monday night at the 2019 Canada Winter Games. They came in the high-flying trampoline competition at the Collicutt Centre. Kalena Soehn won the gold medal in the Individual Female event with a score of 51.170. Soehn explained the feelings she had during her rou...

The second week of competition got underway Sunday at the 2019 Canada Winter Games in Red Deer. At the Pidherney Curling Centre, both Alberta teams were in action in the opening draw a facing Quebec. The men's team easily took a 7-1 victory over Quebec in six ends while the women's team earned a 6-3 victory in seven en...

Red Deer is getting a ‘thumbs up’ for its work during week one of the 2019 Canada Winter Games. David Patterson, President and CEO of the Canada Games Council is learning what many already knew, that Red Deer and central Alberta are second to none when it comes to volunteer spirit. "The volunteers have...

The first week of competition has wrapped up at the 2019 Canada Winter Games in Red Deer, and it was a great week for home province athletes. Alberta is sitting in second in the medal standings with 44 medals. Quebec is leading with 87 medals, and Ontario is third with 42 medals. Alberta won 16 gold medals (surpassing ...

The ringette tournament at the 2019 Canada Winter Games had no shortage of memorable moments, and was a stand-out event in first week of competition. Teams had an exhausting week of play with first battling battling in the group stage, followed by the qualification round, then the playoff round. Most games took place i...

It was an electric atmosphere at the Westerner Park Centrium Friday night as Team Ontario and Team Quebec faced off in the gold medal game for male hockey at the 2019 Canada Winter Games. After building an early lead before falling behind, Team Quebec came back to defeat Ontario 4-3 in overtime to claim gold. Quebec op...

Two local curling stars competing at our country's highest level say the Canada Winter Games played a key role in launching their careers. Lacombe native Colin Hodgson won gold at the 2007 Canada Winter Games in Whitehorse, YT playing third on Team Alberta skipped by Red Deer's Joel Peterman. "The Canada Games was...

The Canada Winter Games has produced many decorated athletes, but one stands alone as the most decorated athlete in Games history. Felix Dolci, artistic gymnast from Team Quebec, has now won 11 medals over two Canada Winter Games. He won six medals in 2015 in Prince George, and he has picked up another five here in Red...

Therapy dogs from St. John Ambulance paid a visit to the Gary W. Harris Canada Games Centre on Friday. Dylan and Booker were there to show comfort and support to athletes competing at the Games. Sandi Misselbrook, Manager of Community Service for St. John Ambulance in Alberta explains why these dogs come out to big eve...

A three-part survey being conducted by Red Deer College faculty members will assess the impact of the 2019 Canada Winter Games on students, staff and faculty. Part one, which asked respondents what they anticipated the impacts would be, was done prior to the Games. The next phase will take place immediately following t...

Thursday was another great day for Team Alberta at the 2019 Canada Winter Games with home province athletes racking up 10 more medals. Alberta swimmers won two gold medals on the last day of competition in artistic swimming at the pool of the Repsol Centre in Calgary. The morning session saw Jamie Czarkowski of Calgary...

Alberta will play for bronze in men's hockey at the 2019 Canada Winter Games after a crushing 8-4 loss to Ontario in semifinals action Thursday night at the Centrium. It was a rematch of the gold medal game from the 2015 Canada Winter Games where Ontario also prevailed. Ontario came out strong and took the lead just 1:...

Top seed and host Alberta seized the gold medal on home soil in wheelchair basketball for the first time since 1995 with a 51-48 win over Ontario on Thursday at the 2019 Canada Winter Games. There wasn't a dry eye in the house when Team Alberta won the gold medal in front of a packed crowd of Alberta supporters. "...

This week's Canada Winter Games has had some special moments in competitions, but just off the fields of play some new coaches are getting a very special chance to experience elite level coaching first-hand. The Aboriginal Apprentice Coach Program (AACP) has provided the chance for each province and territory to send t...