Lots of fireworks on this Victoria Day weekend - and not all outdoors.
Like the baseball tournament final that ended in Oshawa, depending on who you speak with on this, without a championship game. Yet, a winner was determined. And in track, in one Toronto region anyway, a fifth year student isn’t eligible to compete because of an age rule. Get this, she would be eligible for the Metro and Ontario finals. And the Birchmount Exceptional Athlete Program pumped about graduating a handful of athletes to U.S. schools, while not much is said about those higher institutions of learning in Canada.
Also on the HIGH SCHOOL SHOW today, an interesting way to keep football alive - especially in rural areas and some urban centres who are having difficulties maintaining what can be an expensive sport.
In the Bancroft area, six-person football. You read that correctly. Similar rules to the game with 12 players. Tackling too. Girls and boys on the same team. Got to see it played to understand it more. But, borrowed from Saskatchewan, the idea sounds good.
And then the marvellous story about a grade 9 girl who, competing for North Toronto Collegiate, won four individual and one team gold medal at a regional track and field meet. What makes it even more interesting: the coach is a fellow student and the school doesn’t even have a track.
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