Blaise Trottier

On March 27, five skaters with the Cochrane Rockies atom girls hockey team took to the ice with Team Canada Olympic gold medallists Cassie Campbell-Pascall and Danielle Goyette for the third annual Scotiabank Girls HockeyFest.

Three hundred skaters of novice, atom, pee wee and bantam age spent the day at the Scotiabank Saddledome in Calgary participating in both on- and off-ice drills (more…)

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The Cochrane-based Swiss International Sports and Education Centre (SISEC) Selects are the Canadian Sport School Hockey League (CSSHL) champions after defeating the Edge Varsity Double A Maroon in three straight games.

“We are playing the No. 1 team, they’ve won the league and we’re the underdogs,” said Selects manager Fred Voser (more…)

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Brandon Harrison

Brandon Harrison will be representing Cochrane on the U-17 Canadian rugby team when they play three games in England this summer.

“It’s an honour to make the Canadian team,” he said. “Its pretty awesome.”

The games will be played against England, Belgium and France at Wellington College in Crowthorne, England. (more…)

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Matthias Mailer

The Cochrane White Wolves U-10 soccer team earned Calgary Minor Soccer League gold March 24 at the South Soccer Centre in Calgary.

The team soundly beat the Chinook Arsenal 5-1 in the championship match.

“It was a great game,” said team manager Shona Jackson.

“(They) got out on the field and played like they (more…)

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Cochrane’s Blaine Kruger has signed with the Canadian Football League’s Hamitlon Tiger Cats.

The six-foot-four, 210-pound wide-receiver played two seasons with the Calgary Stampeders before being released, becoming a free agent.

For more information check out ticats.ca. (more…)

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Justin Dowling

The Calgary Flames American Hockey League affiliate, the Abbotsford Heat, announced the signing of Cochrane’s Justin Dowling March 24.

The five-foot-ten, 20-year-old is coming off his fifth season with the Western Hockey League (WHL) Swift Current Broncos.

Dowling had 20 goals and 47 assists in 63 games (more…)

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Connor Chartier

In his first game with the Spokane Chiefs March 20, Cochrane’s Connor Chartier scored his first Western Hockey League goal in the first period with his first shot.

The 17-year-old forward was drafted by the Chiefs in the second round of the 2009 WHL draft and has signed a standard player agreement with the team.

Chartier was free to join (more…)

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Hidemi Uchiage

Students of Cochrane’s Ippon Dojo were in Saint-Hyacinthe, Que., March 18-20 for the 2011 National Karate Championships.

“It went really well,” said sensei Adam Wackershauser, adding eight out of the 25 Team Alberta contestants hailed from the Cochrane dojo.

Hidemi Uchiage, in her 11th nationals (more…)

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Oliver Mayo

For the first time in the league’s 16-year history, Cochrane is hosting the Foothills Recreational Hockey League (FRHL) tournament April 2-3.

“It’s kind of a big event for us, being it’s our first tournament,” said Mark Lenson, Cochrane and area co-ordinator for the FRHL’s Cochrane Cougars.

The league is comprised of Cochrane, Canmore, Bragg Creek, Millarville and Priddis (more…)

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