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Independent SPORTS
Wednesday, July 9, 2014
Stettler and area kids attended Camp Teckla this summer to learn basketball skills. Robin Tarnowetzki Independent reporter
Camp Teckla enters 18th year Robin Tarnowetzki INDEPENDENT REPORTER About 175 Stettler and area kids attended the 18th annual Camp Teckla at the Stettler Schools Complex from June 30 to July 4.
UPCOMING EVENTS 3 Lady Open Scramble on Saturday July 12 10:00 a.m. Shotgun
Junior Open on Thursday July 24 10:00 a.m. shotgun--ages 8-17 welcome--Calgary Flame tickets will be given away as hole prizes
Men’s Cash Scramble Monday July 28 5:30 pm $160 / team--includes supper
Call Clubhouse at
403 742 2001 for more info and to register
Stettler’s Family Golf Course
The camp began as a memorial for Teckla Anderson, an avid basketball player who attended Halkirk School and then William E. Hay. After she was killed in a car accident in 1997, her grandparents decided to set up a basketball camp so that young athletes could benefit from sports, instead of just creating an individual scholarship in her memory. “Basketball was one of Teckla’s favourite sports,” said coach Leighann Doan Reimer. “I played basketball with her in Grade 9 and she was in Grade 12. We have a common interest and it was something that she loved to do.” The camp is for kids from grades 1 to 12. Grades 1 to 3 attend camp for 2 hours for three days, and grades 4 to 12 attend for half a day for five days. Participants in the camp learn the fundamentals of basketball, and get to implement those new skills during scrimmages. But the camp isn’t all about learning new skills. “They have fun, meet new people, hopefully they learn about a few things, but more importantly, they come and enjoy a week of being active, and take that further in life and continue to be active,” Doan Reimer said. For the younger kids, learning to dribble is one of the biggest skills they acquire alongside the basics of proper shooting technique. “I try to teach them a little bit about their shots,” she said. “When they get older they kind of know the basics of it so they don’t form bad habits right from a young age.” Doan Reimer said that she thinks it’s important to just get the kids out and push them to be competitive. “Anybody can do it, so just get out and run.”
Stettler plays host to Provincial Peewee playoffs Stacey Lavallie INDEPENDENT REPORTER The second half of the Peewee Boys’ baseball provincial playoffs roll into twon this weekend, with the games starting on Saturday, July 12 at 10 a.m. The first round of games took place in Fort Saskatchewan, with Stettler at plate against Elk Point on Saturday, whom they beat in five innings, and versus Whitecourt on Sunday, another win. Stettler then faced Fort Saskatchewan and came up empty-handed as the home team took the game. This weekend, Stettler will be host to teams from Whitecourt, Elk Point, Drayton Valley, Cochrane and the Northeast Zone.