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Ariadne Holness de Hiller remembers the first time she saw speed skating. As a geologist who grew up in Panama, she was working in Peru while the 1988 Winter Olympics were underway in Calgary.

Mandy Botham is taking her basketball game back to the college ranks. Botham, a former assistant coach with UNBC's women's basketball team, is now the new head coach of the Kwantlen Polytechnic University women's squad.

Ariadne Holness de Hiller, a longtime volunteer with the Prince George Blizzard Speed Skating Club, has been recognized nationally for her dedication to the sport.

Aidan Proctor is on quite the roll this season. He's won every single motocross race he's entered in Williams Lake and Quesnel.

James Nearing knew capturing his first Prince George Citizen Open Championship tennis title wouldn't be easy. Especially since he would have to defeat Kristian Kiland, the defending champion from a year ago.

"I'm going to knock some sense into you damned fools," shouted Kevin Drew, aka Wallace Foster, as he stabbed a square bale of hay. He then picked up his Winchester Model '92 .45 Colt calibre gun and fired several rounds into a pair of steel targets.

There will be bumper-to-bumper and metal-to-metal action tonight on the oval track at the Prince George Auto Racing Association Speedway. It's the first Hit-to-Pass of the season that features a one and only 150-lap hit-to-pass main event.

Eleven men will vie for the men's singles title at the Prince George Tennis Club this weekend at the Prince George Citizen Open Tennis championships. Action on the hard courts was set to get underway Friday night if rain showers had cleared by then.

The Westwood Pub Devils' record remains unblemished on the lacrosse floor, even after a wild affair against the B.X. Pub Bandits Wednesday night at Kin 1.

A week ago as 40 women spun out of the gate in the second race at the Wild Rose MX Park in Calgary, the weather was not good. Rain started coming down in sheets. There was hail. There was wind.