Archive 1997-2016
By Richard Bloom
Add another win to the Ottawa 67’s record. But this win is worth a lot more than two points.
The first-place Ontario Hockey League team has won the right to host the 1999 Memorial Cup, the Canadian junior hockey championships, this spring.
By Sandra Lewrey
In the high-pressure world of competitive sports, there is an unspoken belief that athletes who haven’t “made it” by the time they’re 20 years old won’t make it at all.
Derek Schmidt, 24, hopes to lay that theory to rest.
Schmidt, an Ottawa resident, has been figure skating for 15 years and competing at the senior level for three. In a sport typically reserved for teenagers, it’s rare to find skaters like Schmidt who have not fared well at the amateur level still competing past their 20s.
By Jon Filson
One thing is for sure: there will be no women’s football at Carleton University next year.
But right now everything else is still up in the air. University president Richard Van Loon will decide in mid-February on director of athletics Drew Love’s recommendations. Among the changes being considered: axing football entirely and giving more money to women’s athletics than men’s.
By Krysta Krupica
If local outdoor rinks are in worse shape than usual this year, blame the weather not the city.
“I know for a fact there has been no discussion about reduction in grants for 1999 in the budget,” said Linda Pajot, who formerly worked for Parks and Recreation and is now facility manager for Jack Purcell Community Centre.