Canadian Amateur Summer Sports News
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
Cincinnati Reds first baseman Joey Votto of Toronto, Ontario won the 2017 Lou Marsh Award, which is presented to the most outstanding Canadian athlete every year. In 2017, Votto led Major League Baseball in number of times walked (134), Read more
Team Canada won the gold medal in a women’s World Cup team pursuit track cycling competition in Milton, Ontario on Friday. The Canadian team who won gold on their home track comprised of Ariane Bonhomme of Gatineau, Quebec, Kinley Gibson Read more
Arthur Margelidon of Montreal, Quebec has cracked the top 10 in the International Judo Federation world rankings. On Saturday, Margelidon won the silver medal in the men’s 73 kilogram division at the Tokyo Grand Slam, and moved into 10th in Read more
Reigning Canadian Olympic gold medalist Jennifer Jones of Winnipeg, Manitoba began her title defense of the Canadian Olympic Curling Trials in Ottawa with an impressive 9-6 win over Valerie Sweeting of Edmonton. It was a slow start for Jones on Read more
The University of Western Ontario have won the 53rd Vanier Cup. On Saturday at Tim Hortons Field in Hamilton, Ontario, the University of Western Ontario Mustangs won their seventh Vanier Cup in the history of the school by defeating Read more
University of Alberta Golden Bears running back Ed Ilnicki of Spruce Grove, Alberta has won the 2017 Hec Crighton Trophy, which is presented annually to the top university football player in Canadian University Sports. Ilnicki, who won the award on Read more
Sophiane Methot of La Prairie, Quebec won the bronze medal in the women’s individual trampoline at the 2017 World Trampoline Championships in Sofia, Bulgaria on Sunday. Methot becomes the third Canadian woman to win an individual medal in women’s Read more