Sports

Reported by Kelsea Franzke  Teaching about consent and shaming perpetrators has been the focus of the #MeToo movement, but self-defence instructors say there’s also a need to empower people with training about personal safety. On Oct.…

Reported by Taesa Hodel A local tai chi master will spin swords with anyone — from star athletes in the international arena, to the ordinary women who attend her drop-in classes. Sprina Fu is the only instructor in B.C., and one of…

By Kate Gardiner  Former Langara students will be representing Vancouver as the youngest ever coaches of the national under-24 dragon boat team in 2019. Brothers in boating Aidan Menard and his twin brother Shamus, 21, formed the…

Reported by Shab Jessa In a Langara first, the men’s golf team has brought in female golf pro Christine Wong as its new head coach. Knowing how relationships are built in a team is paramount to being a good coach, whether you're a man…

Reported by Adam Levi When Jasper Lau joined the Vancouver Dodgeball League he had no idea it would become such a big part of his life. Lau was recruited to the VDL by a friend. “She got me into the league. We played once and I was…

Reported by Nick Laba  Without playing a single game, the Langara Falcons have secured a spot in the 2019 Men’s Basketball National Championship. The Falcons were guaranteed one of the eight available berths when the Canadian…

“They're a very good team and they’re definitely good at executing so what we'll have to focus on is capitalizing when they've missed,” Brown said. “So we just need to make sure we're making shots if they get a slight miss of even a half…

“The purpose of the plan is to identify basketball players in smaller, less-known B.C. communities and give them a chance to showcase their skills,” Rudnisky said. “We’ve implemented more development camps that are spread out across the…

New homeowners do not always make new horse riders in Vancouver’s Dunbar Southlands neighbourhood, much to the dismay of a local riding club.

Basketball is back in Musqueam. Youth interest in the sport, which thrived throughout the 1990s, had all but died, until last year.