The BC Sports Hall of Fame inducted the Class of 2023 on Thursday night and five BC Games and Team BC alumni are among the honourees. Olympic gold and silver medalist in ski-cross Kelsey Serwa and three-time wheelchair basketball Paralympic gold medalist Jaimie Borisoff are joined by basketball coach Deb Huband, who enters the Hall […]
Maple Ridge appoints President and Vice President for 2024 BC Summer Games VICTORIA – Laura Butler and Ernie Daykin have been appointed as the President and Vice President, respectively, for the Maple Ridge 2024 BC Summer Games. Maple Ridge is set to welcome over 3,000 athletes, coaches, and officials from communities around BC at the […]
Games Get Underway in Greater Vernon with close to 900 athletes together with their coaches and officials ready to start competition on Friday!
Inclusion awareness was top of mind for the Greater Vernon 2022 BC Winter Games Board and they made it a priority.
The BC Winter Games in Greater Vernon kick off in one week and over 1,300 of BC’s best emerging high performance athletes, coaches, and officials are set to be part of this celebration of sport and community from March 23-26.
In recognition of the partnership between the community of Quesnel and Lhtako Dene Nation, the BC Games Society has announced that the 2024 BC Winter Games will officially be named the Lhtako Quesnel 2024 BC Winter Games. The announcement marks the first time in the history of the BC Games that a city and First […]
Coaches are integral to a positive Games experience. Over 270 head coaches, assistant coaches, mentor and apprentice coaches, and adult supervisors will be part of the Games in Greater Vernon March 23-26, 2023. These Games coaches will support the over 893 athletes at the Games. Not only do they prepare their athletes for the Games […]
The Prince George 2022 BC Summer Games will benefit from a total investment of $31,500 from the BC Games Society’s Powering Potential Fund (PPF) for various sport and community projects leading up to the Games. Started in 2017, The Powering Potential Fund (is a vehicle to strategically invest in projects that will further the development […]
Through a partnership between BC Games Society and Camosun Innovates, design of the new torch began as a student-led initiative that was the basis of a capstone project for four students from the Mechanical Engineering Diploma program at Camosun. Once the concept was approved, the applied research arm of the college stepped in so Lacey […]
Coaching in any form requires relationship building, knowledge transfer, and passion, all of which can be difficult to foster over any single season, never mind over a pandemic plagued one punctuated by the postponement of the Greater Vernon 2022 BC Winter Games. However, the BC Games Coach Mentorship program found a means to “reimagine” its […]