Canadian Amateur Summer Sports News
Team Canada won their second gold medal of the 2018 Commonwealth Games on Friday. The Canadian squad won gold in the women’s artistic gymnastics team competition and comprised of Ellie Black of Halifax, Nova Scotia, Shallon Olsen of Vancouver, British Read more
Canada has won its first gold medal at the 2018 Commonwealth Games in Gold Coast, Australia. Canadian Olympic bronze medalist Taylor Ruck of Kelowna, British Columbia won the gold medal in the women’s 200 metre freestyle swimming competition. Ruck set a Read more
Kia Nurse of Hamilton, Ontario was named the 2018 NCAA defensive player of the year for women’s basketball on Friday. The Canadian Olympian had 2.6 defensive rebounds per game, 1.3 steals per game and 0.4 blocks per game. With Nurse Read more
The 2018 NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament got under way on Tuesday and Wednesday with four play-in games. On Wednesday evening in Dayton, Ohio, it was a glorious game for Syracuse Orange forward Oshae Brissett of Mississauga, Ontario. Brissett had 23 Read more
The University of Calgary Dinos delivered a significant surprise this past Sunday in Canadian university sports. The Dinos defeated the University of Ryerson Rams 79-77 in the final of the Canadian University Sport Men’s Basketball Championship at the Scotiabank Centre in Read more
Denis Shapovalov has once again beaten a grand slam tennis finalist. This time Sahapovalov’s opponent was Japan’s Kei Nishikori in the first round of the Abierto Mexicano Telcel in Acapulco (also known as the Mexican Open). Shapovalov needed three sets Read more
Canadian Olympic bronze medalist Meaghan Benfeito of Montreal, Quebec will carry the flag in the opening ceremonies of the 2018 Commonwealth Games in Gold Coast, Australia. Benfeito has won three Olympic bronze medals in diving in her career. She won Read more
Team Canada has changed their coaches for their national soccer teams. In a surprise announcement on Monday, John Herdman has been announced as the head coach of the men’s team and Kenneth Heiner-Moller has been named the head coach Read more
The Canadian under-19 basketball team has won the 2017 Canadian Press Team of the Year. Canada won the 2017 FIBA Under-19 Basketball World Cup in Cairo, Egypt on July 9. Team Canada defeated Italy 79-60 in the gold medal game. Read more
Olympic bronze medalist Georgia Simmerling of Vancouver, British Columbia won World Cup women’s ski cross medals on back-to-back days this past week in Innichen, Italy. Simmerling won a silver medal on Thursday and a bronze medal on Friday. On Thursday, Read more