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The power of parity, a balance sought by every league in every sport, is evident in sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½ West basketball.

The UVic Vikes women’s rowing program measures success in world terms, as evidenced last year in Tokyo with Olympic gold and bronze medals by Vikes alumni Avalon Wasteneys and Caileigh Filmer.

The Vancouver Island University Mariners have created one of the better traditions in Canadian college men’s soccer the past decade-plus, winning the national championship in 2017 and 2010 and placing as the national runners-up in 2019, 2014, 2

Nanaimo has been chosen to host the 55+ sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½ Games in 2025.

When the Canadian Premier League came into being in 2019, people legitimately wondered whether a national pro domestic soccer league could survive, never mind thrive.

It’s a topsy-turvy soccer calendar that sees the World Cup starting in November. But what isn’t out of place this month is the boys’ high school season careening to a close, as it always has.

Four was fine for Owen Bohn, whose quartet of goals led the Victoria Grizzlies to a 7-2 sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½ Hockey League victory over the Trail Smoke Eaters at the Q Centre on Sunday. The 20-year-old from San Jose, California, has seven goals on the season.

Dexter Janke learned from the best in the Canadian Football League in playing in two Grey Cup games with the Calgary Stampeders and hoisting the Cup in 2019 with the Winnipeg Blue Bombers.

Ruby Broadbent, the Parkland Secondary star, won the senior girls’ sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½ high school cross-country championship for the second consecutive year by running the 5K course at Royal Roads University in 17 minutes and 17 seconds on Saturday.

NANAIMO 5 VICTORIA 2 The Nanaimo Clippers got an unexpected night off Friday when a power outage at Frank Crane Arena postponed their sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½ Hockey League game against the Cranbrook Bucks.