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New web series traces radical changes in the sport

There's one wall that doesn't need to be built, and that's the front line of the Douglas College Royals men's volleyball team. The squad is already pretty impenetrable, and continued its rise up the charts both provincially and nationally.

As big steps go, Tuesday’s win was huge. Having talked about hard work and potential through the long high school hoop season, New Westminster Hyacks senior boys coach Ted Cusick was longing to see it come together in a sustained way.

Depth is paying dividends for the Douglas College Royals women’s volleyball team.

Medals and strong results were the order of the day for Royal City Track and Field Club athletes, who made the most of their events at the 2019 Harry Jerome Indoor Meet in Richmond.

Tamara O’Brien thought her connection to the gymnastics career she loved was finished and her medal-winning days done after being diagnosed with Stage 4 melanoma.

Everyone knows too much salt is a bad thing -- and in lacrosse circles, that Salt is especially bad for opposing offences.

While it looks like B.C.ers have escaped, for the moment, that chilly winter feeling that’s trapped parts of Eastern Canada in snow, think again. The New Westminster Hyacks’ shooters spent the past days with a touch of Jack Frost.

They’ll be counting on someone to make a mistake. With the seventh overall pick in next week’s Western Lacrosse Association junior draft, the New Westminster Salmonbellies have to wait and listen.

She makes her most noise crashing the boards, but Rachel Beauchamp’s first successful shot in Saturday’s showdown with the Okanagan College Coyotes came from long distance, signalling another successful night for the Douglas College Royals women’s ba