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NORTH Vancouver's Brayden Belleville and Keishon Ross joined Canada's under-15 football team in a matchup against the United States at the Eastbay 2012 Youth All-American Bowl Jan. 8 as part of the festivities surrounding the NCAA's U.S.

Open champ Shabana ranked No. 8 in the world

North Van's Thrower named WHL player of the week

SIX North Shore athletes have been nominated by Sport BC for the 46th annual Athlete of the Year Awards. Sport BC announced the finalists for 14 of the 17 award categories on Jan. 10.

Plavsic and Girke one step away from Olympics

Ankle injury will keep pro out of hometown event

HELEN Crofts' fantastic 2011 was topped off late last month by the announcement that she will receive Athletics Canada's Frank Tees Memorial Trophy as the outstanding athlete enrolled in a Canadian university.

WEST Vancouver's Janet McLachlan helped Canada's women's wheelchair basketball team claim silver at the Parapan American Games held in November in Guadalajara, Mexico.

WEST Vancouver's Sam Reinhart and North Vancouver's Jackson Houck helped Team Pacific to a fifth-place finish at the 2012 World U17 Hockey Challenge played Dec. 29-Jan. 4 in Windsor, Ont.