Sports

For Canadian boxers — especially those from small towns — the opportunity to fight for a Canadian title doesn’t often present itself.

On Feb. 1, 1981 a dream became a reality in Williams Lake — the Sam Ketcham Memorial Pool opened, providing a premium aquatic centre for both recreational and competitive activities.

For 16 local figure skaters, the weekend presents an opportunity to showcase everything they’ve been working on in front of parents, family and friends.

Royal Canadian Sea Cadet Corps 202 Chilcotin recently competed in the Zone Championship and Provincial/Territorial Selection held in Prince George for the Zone 1 and 2 Cadet Corps on Jan. 8.

Williams Lake Wrestling Club grapplers joined close to 700 wrestlers from B.C. and Alberta from Jan. 13-15 at Kamloops’ Tournament Capital Centre to do battle at the Western Canada Age Class Tournament — B.C.’s premier high school wrestling event.

The Williams Lake Stampeders will look to close out its best-of-three Central Interior Hockey League East Division semifinal Saturday night in the lakecity against the Burns Lake Braves.

Fresh off his Battlefield Fight League featherweight championship win, Williams Lake’s Gurdarshan Gary ‘Saint Lion’ Mangat will be in Williams Lake this weekend helping conduct a mixed martial arts seminar.

Local Williams Lake race car driver Ryley Seibert is quickly learning how to turn heads. The 18 year old has just returned from North Carolina after graduating from the RACE 101 program in Mooresville, NC which acts as home to the biggest teams in NASCAR.

For the first time in the history of high school rodeo in B.C., Williams Lake will host the 2011 British Columbia High School Rodeo Finals.

Williams Lake, she said, offers a more central location for all parties involved.