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It did not work in our favour to be able to host our traditional East Division – Girls Captains/Veterans Game honouring many deserving athletes. Each representative is selected by their own coaches, based on leadership, experience, dedication, hard work, ability, etc.  Typically, City would take on the County, in a combined junior/senior game. This year’s game was supposed to be played in late November. Here are this year’s deserving individuals:…

The Thames Valley Regional Athletic Association is excited to invite spectators back into our schools for the final event for each fall athletic championship.  Each participant will be permitted to have 2 spectator entries per event.  TVRA has hired security for each of these events that will take care of checking vaccines & identification, ensuring capacity limits, and contact tracing.   The following outlines the procedures we have put in place…

After a lot of work getting a schedule set up for field hockey competition, TVRA was delighted to see the many athletes out on the field working hard competing and building relationships with their teammates and competitors. We were very thankful for nice weather and amazing field conditions at London City Wide. Medway won the championship this year and was led by their passionate coaches (and TVRA convenors) Dana Kajan…

Despite a dark and rainy day, the first Cross Country race since 2019 was completed yesterday! Click here to see the results. ??

TVRA is extremely proud and honoured to announce that our very own Michele Van Bargen was the receipt of this year’s Pete Beach Award. Michele has been a dedicated teacher-coach for all of her 28 years of teaching. Most prominently, she has coached Girls Volleyball and Track and Field for her entire career, sharing her expertise in both sports across multiple generations of student-athletes. Michele’s contributions to Athletic Administration are…

Despite missing out in their final year of athletics in high school, both of the Spectra award winners this year were exceptional role models for their schools and within their communities over the last 4 years. Dominating in cross country, track and field, and wrestling, Jalen Marcil from London Central Secondary School is the 2021 Spectra Award winner.  Described by her coaches as one of the hardest working and positive…

It was not long ago when former MTS student, Julia Gosling won the coveted SPECTRA award. Shortly after that, she headed for St. Lawrence University to pursue her education and lead the women’s hockey team there. Now, she will have to defer her 3rd year at the university to travel to Calgary at the end of July to train with the team. Both she and her teammates are pumped and…