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Innisfail High School students have hit the field for the soccer season. “It's a junior, senior high, co-ed soccer team. We've got a good mix of students from grades 9 to 12 this year,” said Narsh Ramrattan, head coach.

It's play ball time for the Innisfail Indians. “We've been out on the diamond. This will be our second week. We also did a week of training inside at the Collicutt Centre in Red Deer,” said Steven Bouteiller, head coach of the Indians.

Thirty-two teams from across the province, including three from Saskatchewan filled up the Ralph Klein Centre April 15-17 for a tournament hosted by the Edmonton-based Swoosh Canada Basketball Club.

Olds High School student Tatum Olsen is a lot of things: guitarist, singer, and painter. But she's no athlete. "I'm an artsy person," Olsen says. "I create anything I can.

Olds Koinonia Christian School's senior high school badminton team sent eight players to the provincial championship this past weekend in Edmonton. It's the largest cohort in team history.

Veteran Grizzlys forward Landon Kletke is staying close to home, committing to play for the Red Deer College Kings next year. The Trochu native spent all four years of junior hockey in Olds and will study kinesiology and sport studies.

In between recruiting for his own Broncos programs, coach Macky Singh has been helping out with Olds Minor Soccer Club. Two times a week this month, Singh is leading practice on his own time for U-10 players.

In his final match as a high school-aged wrestler, Olds' Kevin Waldron won silver at the 2016 ASICS Cadet/Juvenile Canadian Wrestling Championships. In three previous trips to the national championship, Waldron had never medalled.

The Olds Rapids invited three-time Olympic medallist Tom Ponting to guest coach the club during its practice on April 26. Ponting swam at the 1984, 1988 and 1992 Olympic Games, medalling each time.

The Olds Mavericks are out to a 3-0 start in their first season as a Tier II team in the Rocky Mountain Lacrosse League after a 10-7 victory over the Calgary Wranglers. "Obviously we're not going to win every game. It'd be nice if we did.