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Will Zafiris has been named the new head coach of the Charlottetown Bulk Carriers Knights’ major under-18 male hockey team. Will Zafiris • Special to The Guardian

P.E.I.'s Charlottetown Knights name new head coach

Jason Simmonds · Journalist |Updated May. 10, 2024 |4 min read Premium content

A familiar face behind benches in eastern P.E.I. is continuing to progress up the ranks to the New Brunswick/P.E.I. Major Under-18 Male Hockey League next season. Will Zafiris of Stratford has been named head coach of the Charlottetown Bulk Carriers ...

Trainer-driver Mike McGuigan and Islebetu Islebeatu lead the field around the turn for the homestretch in the opening race of a 10-dash harness racing card at Red Shores Racetrack and Casino at the Charlottetown Driving Park. Islebetu Islebeatu, a three-year-old bay filly, won the race over a sloppy track in 2:03.1. Jason Simmonds • The Guardian

HARNESS RACING: Tobins Brownie wins feature race in sloppy conditions

Nicholas Oakes · Columnist |Updated May. 10, 2024 |1 min read Premium content

A wet night led to a front-end victory for Tobins Brownie in the feature at Red Shores Racetrack and Casino at the Charlottetown Driving Park on May 9. The $3,700 Fillies and Mares Preferred Pace had Tobins Brownie and trainer-driver David Dowling ...

This summer in Paris, Ellie Black of Halifax will become the first Canadian female gymnast ever to have competed in four Olympic Games. - CONTRIBUTED

‘I’m going to Paris with no regrets’: Decorated gymnast Ellie Black reflects on her record-breaking Olympic journey

Glenn MacDonald · Multimedia Journalist |Updated May. 10, 2024 |8 min read Premium content

When Ellie Black steps into Paris’s Bercy Arena for the gymnastics competition at this summer’s Olympic Games, she will add her name to the Canadian record book. Already Canada’s most decorated female artistic gymnast, the 28-year-old from Halifax ...

Carter Lawless is back on the rugby pitch with the Three Oaks Axemen senior AAA boys’ team this season. Lawless, a Grade 12 student, had a serious non-rugby-related injury close to a year ago. - Joel Arsenault/Special to SaltWire

TOSH senior keeps promise to coach of returning to rugby pitch after suffering serious injury

Jason Simmonds · Journalist |Updated May. 10, 2024 |6 min read Premium content

It has been a long 12 months for Carter Lawless, but the Three Oaks Senior High School senior has kept his promise. Lawless broke two bones in his leg – the tibia and fibula – in an all-terrain vehicle accident in mid-May 2023. Despite surgery – ...

GOR GLAN MAC STORY:
Joni Colburne is seen during practice at the Tennis Canada u15 camp at the Atlantic Tennis Centre in Bedford, Thursday May 9, 2024. 

TIM KROCHAK PHOTO

Goin’ down the road: Tennis wunderkind Colburne partakes in Canadian U15 camp, will join brother in Montreal this fall

Glenn MacDonald · Multimedia Journalist |Updated May. 9, 2024 |7 min read Premium content

The time has come for Joni Colburne to leave Nova Scotia behind to further her tennis aspirations. In August, the 12-year-old will move to Montreal with her family and reunite with her older brother Caden, one of the country’s top up-and-coming ...

Scott Morrison and his son, Max, are all smiles as they hang out. Scott and his wife, Susanne, have formed To The Max Foundation in honour of their son to assistant families and individuals with autism. Scott, an assistant coach with the Utah Jazz is from Morell, P.E.I., and recently spearheaded an initiative where all 30 NBA head coaches wore specially-designed sneakers featuring an autism theme. - Susanne Morrison/Special to SaltWire

P.E.I.'s Scott Morrison enjoys first season as Utah Jazz assistant coach

Jason Simmonds · Journalist |Updated May. 9, 2024 |2 min read Premium content

Scott Morrison said his first year as an assistant coach with the NBA’s Utah Jazz was a great experience. “It was good to be back in the front of the bench and have a big role, and I feel like Coach (Will) Hardy, and I have a really good relationship ...

Scott Morrison and his wife, Susanne, have formed To The Max Foundation in honour of their son, Max, to assist families and individuals with autism. Scott, an assistant coach with the Utah Jazz from Morell, P.E.I., recently spearheaded an initiative where all 30 NBA head coaches wore specially designed sneakers featuring an autism theme. - Susanne Morrison/Special to SaltWire

Raising autism acceptance: NBA coach from P.E.I. and his wife form To The Max Foundation in honour of their son

Jason Simmonds · Journalist |Updated May. 8, 2024 |10 min read Premium content

What started as a small gesture has turned into much more, on and off the basketball court, for a family from P.E.I. living in Salt Lake City. Scott Morrison, who is from Morell, recently concluded his first season as an assistant coach with the ...

Head coach Gardiner MacDougall, left, of Bedeque, P.E.I., and Hockey Canada’s manager of medical services Kevin Elliott, right, of Charlottetown join assistant coach Travis Crickard, second right, and equipment manager A.J. Murley for a photo with the International Ice Hockey Federation world under-18 male hockey championship trophy. Team Canada defeated the United States 6-4 in the gold-medal game in Espoo, Finland, on May 4. Crickard, head coach of the Quebec Maritimes Junior Hockey League’s Saint John Sea Dogs, and Murley are from St. John’s. Gardiner MacDougall • Special to The Guardian

MacDougall right back to work at UNB after returning home from coaching Canada to world U18 championship

Jason Simmonds · Journalist |Updated May. 8, 2024 |6 min read Premium content

There are several reasons success follows Gardiner MacDougall, but right at the top of that list is a second-to-none work ethic. MacDougall returned to his Fredericton-area home at 2 a.m. on May 7 after close to 18 hours of travelling from Finland, ...

JULY 22, 2007--NASCAR  Regan Smith's car (o7) rounds a turn during the IWK 250 car race at Riverside Speedway in James River Sunday.

NASCAR’s Regan Smith returns for this summer’s IWK 250

Glenn MacDonald · Multimedia Journalist |Updated May. 8, 2024 |2 min read Premium content

NASCAR driver and Fox personality Regan Smith returns to Riverside International Speedway this summer to race in the IWK 250. The 40-year-old Smith will drive the Cat Car for Kids in the July 20 race in James River. It will be Smith’s fourth IWK 250 ...

The Belleville Senators’ Ryan MacKinnon, 46, follows the play during an American Hockey League (AHL) game in Belleville, Ont., earlier this season. MacKinnon, from Summerside, P.E.I., was recently named the winner of the Players Choice Award with the Senators for the 2023-24 season. Freestyle Photography / Belleville Senators

Summerside's Ryan MacKinnon wins award voted on by the Belleville Senators' players

Jason Simmonds · Journalist |Updated May. 7, 2024 |6 min read Premium content

It didn’t take long for Ryan MacKinnon’s team-first influence to be felt with the Belleville Senators of the American Hockey League (AHL). The 29-year-old son of John and Mona MacKinnon of Summerside was recently named the recipient of Belleville’s ...

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