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Back in February 2010, when Brandon Deschamps was still attending high school in Prince George at Kelly Road, he was all ears when Andrew Harris came to the Northern Sport Centre to teach the running backs at the Northern Combine skills camp.

Jaymie Hinks capped her gymnastics season with a strong performance at the Ogopogo Invitational in Kelowna on the weekend. Hinks, from the Prince George Gymnastics Club, posted a second all-around finish in the Junior Olympic 7 category.

Simon Nemethy couldn't be caught. Nemethy, a Grade 8 student at Vanderhoof's Nechako Valley secondary school and a member of the Prince George Track and Field Club, ran to double gold at the B.C.

The Prince George Spruce Kings have added skilled American forward Corey Hoffman to their roster for the 2015-16 B.C. Hockey League season. Hoffman, five-foot-nine and 165 pounds, hails from Syosset, N.Y.

Heat and humidity are not typical conditions for an early-morning running race through the streets of Prince George. But by 7:30 a.m.

Tyler Robertson rode the wings of an eagle to dig himself out of a big hole in the opening round of the Junior Simon Fraser Open and put himself back into contention.

The Cariboo Cougars will get to play for a national hockey championship. They've got a spot already wrapped up now that Prince George has won the right to host the Telus Cup midget national championship in April 2017.

In a perfect world, Brooke Sawan would have been sitting in the crowd in Edmonton Saturday afternoon to watch Canada beat China 1-0 in the opening game of the FIFA Women's World Cup. But she had a game to play with her Environmental Dynamics Inc.

In 1985, two years after he first became an arm wrestling world champion, Vern Martel learned what it really takes to beat the odds. He had to figure out how to walk again after a motorcycle accident.

He's only seven years old but you wouldn't want to mess with Zach Loewen. The young Kaiten Mixed Martial Arts Academy member traveled to Edmonton last weekend for the Mind Body Soul tournament and returned to Prince George with two silver medals.