Local Sports

Students hit the snowy trails for annual ski loppet

Over 500 students hit the trails on Tuesday for the annual ski loppet put on by Red Deer Public Schools at River Bend.The event has been running for over thirty years and features students from grades...

Feb 12, 2020 (rdnewsNOW/Dan Hermanutz)

Former Central Alberta Freestyle Ski Club athlete wins bronze at X-Games

Brenden MacKay showed up at the X-Games in Aspen, Colorado not expecting much from his first event of that magnitude, one he'd dreamt about competing in his whole life. Not only did he compete, he won...

Feb 11, 2020 Brenden MacKay (photo supplied)

Red Deer's Sandstrom up for AJHL's top defenceman award

Red Deer native Adam Sandstrom of the Whitecourt Wolverines is the Alberta Junior Hockey League's Defenceman of the Week. Sandstrom, who led all AJHL defencemen in scoring last week, has also been nam...

Feb 11, 2020 Adam Sandstrom (Photo: AJHL)

Weekly Scoreboard: Feb. 10-16, 2020

*All records shown are current prior to the week beginning**If you have a local sports score or story you'd like to see on our website, email news@rdnewsnow.com or josh@rdnewsnow.comDQ ATHLETE OF THE ...

Feb 10, 2020

Olds College hosts athletics scholarship breakfast

Olds College hosted their second annual Broncos Scholarship Breakfast Saturday morning as a fundraiser for scholarships for their student-athletes.Olds College has 154 student athletes on ten differen...

Feb 10, 2020

Red Deer's Canyon Ski Resort hosts Alberta Winter Games ski events

Some of the best and brightest U14 athletes on the alpine and freestyle ski scenes were at Red Deer's Canyon Ski Resort this weekend.Approximately 200 of them were there to unofficially kick off the A...

Feb 09, 2020 Beaumont's Jorja Ottenbreit, 13, competed this weekend in the slalom events at Canyon Ski Resort as part of the 2020 Alberta Winter Games. (rdnewsNOW/Josh Hall)

Hockey community says goodbye to Chase Brewster Memorial Tournament

A fixture on the Red Deer calendar for 10 years now, the Chase Brewster Memorial Peewee Hockey Tournament is being played this weekend for the final time.In 2010, at the age of 12, Gateway Christian s...

Feb 08, 2020 Chase Brewster's mother Karrie-Anne, is pictured with 11-year-old nephew Gavin Rosenkranz, who is playing in his first Chase Brewster Memorial Hockey Tournament. Gavin's cousin Chase passed away in 2010. (rdnewsNOW/Josh Hall)

Alberta Winter Games to feature 150+ central Alberta athletes

More than 150 athletes from in and around Red Deer are set to compete at the 2020 Alberta Winter Games.The Games kick off next Friday, Feb. 14 at venues in the Airdrie region, but one event is happeni...

Feb 07, 2020

Red Deer hosting Canadian Youth Long Track Championships this weekend

The Canadian Youth Long Track Championships are set for this weekend in Red Deer. Athletes ages 11-15 from BC, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Ontario, Quebec, Nova Scotia and New Brunswick will be c...

Feb 06, 2020 (Canada Games/Rick Lawrence)

Pearman carries medal-winning experience to World Cup speed skating event in Calgary

After capturing two medals at last week's ISU Four Continents Speed Skating Championships in Milwaukee, local speed skating star Maddison Pearman is ready for the biggest competition of her life.Calga...

Feb 06, 2020 Maddison Pearman racing the 500m at the long track speed skating Canadian Championships at the Olympic Oval in Calgary on October 18, 2019 (Photo: Dave Holland)