2014 Canadian Junior National Wheelchair Basketball Championship

Spread the word the Canada vs USA Men's Wheelchair Basketball Gold Medal game will be shown live on CBC Saturday, August 15th at 11am Eastern Standard Time. This is one of the first time ever our sport will be shown across the country. GO CANADA GO!!

Edmonton area friends! The Inferno Wheelchair Basketball Society casino is October 8 & 9. We are in desperate need of a day time chip runner for both days! Shift time is 9:30am-7pm. Send us a message if you are available or know someone who can help!! Thank you!!!

Hey Red Deer Area friends! Team Alberta will be out in force tomorrow at the Red Deer is Ready Rally in support of the City of Red Deer's bid for the 2019 Canada Winter Games! Four members of Team Alberta's Wheelchair Basketball team will be there demonstrating their skill including Ben Tumack, Ben Moronchuk, Bradon Doll and Kyle Allen along with Coach Ross Norton! Come on out, cheer on Red Deer and hop in a chair and test your basketball skills :) http://www.reddeer.ca//red-deer-2019-canada-winter-games-/

Today we received viewer stats from SportsCanada.tv from 2014 Jr Nationals. Here's proof that there are passionate wheelchair basketball fans around the world who are following the sport and the athletes! Thank you so much once again to e-tegrity Solutions, Inc for making it possible for us to share!! March 28, 2014 1075 views, 410 unique viewers March 29, 2014 ... 889 views, 366 unique viewers March 30, 2014 576 views, 278 unique viewers Views from outside of Canada: USA 97 France 21 United Kingdom 15 Chile 11 Australia 9 India 8 Turkey 4 Brazil 2 Germany 2 Iraq 2 UAE 1 Greece 1 Saudi Arabia 1 Ireland 1

If you know any of these fine folks, let them know their photo is here and they can contact me for the hi res version to print. https://www.facebook.com/ian.hoare.16

I have photographed Zak many times over the last few years, But I believe this is the first shot I have taken of him talking to his mom. One of my favorite shots from the weekend..

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We'd like to announce Janice Petruk as our raffle contest winner! She has won a hockey stick signed by the Oilers and a sport paraphernalia package. Congratulations!! Thank you to everyone who purchased raffle tickets...your support is greatly appreciated!

As part of the tournament committee, I would like to thank everyone for coming out and cheering on all the athletes. For all the players, coaches, VIPs, officials- thank you for coming and we hope you all had a great time!

Fourth page of today's Edmonton Sun! There are more photos online at edmontonsun.com/localphotos

Here's the final recap of the 2014 Jr Nationals! Bring on Canada Games!! http://wheelchairbasketball.ca/2014_Junior_National_Champio

Gold for Sask! Big game over Quebec 62-61! Congrats Saskatchewan on Gold and Quebec on Silver! Alberta wins Bronze after a hard workout over BC who take 4th! Great work and congratulations to all of the amazing athletes competing this weekend!

Alberta is up 29-19 over BC at the half! Catch the action! http://www.sportscanada.tv/index.php/2014jnwb

Do you follow Wheelchair Basketball Canada online? If not, you should! BIG SHOUT OUT to Jody and Courtney do a fantastic job keeping Canada in the know about all of the happenings! THANK YOU!! www.wheelchairbasketball.ca

Just over 2 hours until Team Alberta meets BC in the Bronze medal game! Be there, or check out the Live Stream!! http://www.sportscanada.tv/index.php/2014jnwb

Did you miss a game you wanted to see? Archives of the Live Streams are posted! http://www.sportscanada.tv/index.php/2014jnwb

It was an incredible day of basketball at the Saville Community Sports Centre! What amazing young wheelchair basketball talent we have in Canada! Ontario and NB finished the tournament strong with a close game that Ontario took the win on for 5th place, 62-59. Check out the weekend results! http://www.wheelchairbasketball.ca/en/tournament.aspx Tomorrow morning at 9am BC and Alberta will battle it out for the Bronze medal, followed by Quebec and Sask hustling for Gold! Be sure to come out to the gym if you can, or catch the live stream!

It's Quebec 41-11 over BC at the half!

Saskatchewan heads to the Gold medal round with a 70-57 win over Alberta! Exciting game!!