Sports Person of the Year
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Ryan Watters is proud to announce that Tony Sodaro has been named the “Ryan Watters.ca Sports Person of the Year” for 2011. One of Tony’s roles is the head coach of the senior girl’s volleyball team at Kelowna Senior Secondary (KSS). For the first time since the 1950s Tony led a Kelowna high school to a provincial gold medal in the girls AAAA category. It is the first time KSS ...
Sports Drive Spotlight – Roz Huber UBC
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It's all about UBC Okanagan athletics this weekend as Ryan presents the first Game of the Month. In preparation for the game, Ryan shines the Sports Drive Spotlight on Heat forward and Rutland Senior grad Roz Huber. Why did Roz choose UBC and find out the one thing people don't know about her. Ryan will call both the women and men Heat on Saturday night live from the campus of UBC ...
Sports Drive Spotlight – Shalane Elliott
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The Sports Drive Spotlight shines on Shalane Elliott, senior point guard at Rutland Senior Secondary school. Shalane shares why she got into the sport of basketball along with what she will do next following her graduation of at RSS. ...
Sports Drive – Natalie Schmidt
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Eleven year old Natalie Schmidt was named the Canadian National #1 Amateur Girl in 2011 in BMX, which was just the icing on the cake following a tremendous and successful year. The Kelowna native won the American BMX Association US Grand Nationals in November giving her the title of 'fastest girl on two wheels.' It appears only the weather can slow Natalie down as Ryan talks with her in front ...
Sports Drive – Okanagan Sun Scholarship Fund
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On Wednesday morning the Okanagan Sun football club received a very generous donation from the Cary Lehmberg and the Scotiabank Group to put towards their Scholarship Fund, helping current players continue their education in Kelowna. Ryan was at the presentation and talked with Commercial Banking Director Cary Lehmberg from the Scotiabank and Les Weiss from the Sun following the donation announcement of $9,430.00. Currently 17 players have taken advantage of the Fund. ...
Sports Drive – Arden Knoll
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The Kelowna junior bantam Lions football club was perfect in 2011. They finished 12-0 during the regular season and outscored their opponents 591-89! They then dominated the BC final in Langley beating Meadow Ridge 44-6 and became the first Interior team to win the BC championship. Ryan catches up with head coach Arden Knoll fresh off the championship win. Front page photo courtesy of Doug Farrow ...
Sports Drive Spotlight – Baily Weymouth
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Ryan shines the Sports Drive Spotlight on Baily Weymouth. She's the senior starting point guard for the Mount Boucherie Bears in her final year. She's also coming off a significant injury, but not on the basketball court. ...
Sports Drive – KSS Girls are Golden
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Monday morning, KSS celebrated their senior girls volleyball team who won AAAA provincial gold for the first time EVER. Back in 1951 "Kelowna highschool" brought home the same award as the "Owlettes." Since then city and area highschools have been shutout of the provincial gold...that is up until last weekend when the Owls claimed victory. In a ceremony in the gym on Monday this year's team was joined by the head ...
Sports Drvie – Kraft Hockeyville 2012
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West Kelowna is one of 42 communities across the country that have officially qualified in the Kraft Hockeyville contest for 2012. In the upcoming weeks the list will be shorten to 10 before CBC Hockey Night in Canada features the remaining communities. West Kelowna has an opportunity to win the $100,000 prize as well as host a pre-season NHL game. Ryan talks with West Kelowna's Todd Simpson about their bid. ...
Sports Drive – Jon Zaks – Westside Warriors
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The Westside Warriors play back to back home games on Friday and Saturday night. They are currently sit on the outside looking in at a playoff spot with still a couple of months left in the season. Play by play voice Jon Zaks joins Ryan to talk about the season, some major trades as well as how the West Kelowna Hockeyville bid has impacted the Warriors. Saturday night a Royal LePage ...
