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Weekend featured a dominating victory over the division rivals

Clinton team wins A event

Dedication to figure skating isn’t something 14-year-old Katharina Wetzig has questioned. Each week, Wetzig can be seen on the ice at the South Cariboo Rec Centre.

Losses see Kamloops inch closer in division

The 100 Mile and District Figure Skating Club got off to a great start in September 2019. There were a few setbacks with lower registration and the shortfall of a coach due to a job relocation. In total, 40 skaters registered in the club for the fall session and are continuing through to the winter session. The club also received seven new applications as of January 2020.

Due to travel and vacations, the team has decided not play

Aidan Morrison has freed himself from the pressure of playing Junior A hockey. Because of that, he is thriving with the 100 Mile House Wranglers.

‘There used to be one but I guess it went to the wayside’

“It was funny because we were dressing these little girls in their hockey gear and they’re going ‘grr, we’re tough’ and then ‘you look like a boy’ and I’m trying to tell them ‘you don’t look like a boy, you look like a girl that plays hockey,” Denise Balbirnie, the director of female hockey for the 100 Mile House and District Minor Hockey Association (OMHMHA) about one of the stereotypes young girls face in hockey, recalling a moment during the association’s new school-based program.

The Wranglers lost to Chase Heat but beat the Kamloops Storm