Canadian Amateur Summer Sports News
Taylor Ruck of Kelowna, British Columbia tied a Canadian record on Monday for most medals at a single Commonwealth Games by a woman with seven. Ruck won the bronze medal in the women’s 100m freestyle swimming competition in Gold Coast, Read more
Olympic bronze medalist Kylie Masse of LaSalle, Ontario has won her second gold medal at the 2018 Commonwealth Games in Gold Coast, Australia on Sunday. Masse, who also won the gold medal in the women’s 100m backstroke on Saturday (the same Read more
Three Canadian women won a gold medal at the 2018 Commonwealth Games in Gold Coast, Australia on Saturday. The Canadian Commonwealth Games gold medalists were Ellie Black of Halifax, Nova Scotia (women’s individual all-around gymnastics), Canadian Olympic bronze medalist Kylie Masse Read more
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