Local Sports

'It's not safe,' says self-proclaimed God of ice fishing, who urges people to 'give it another two weeks of real cold ice-making weather' before venturing onto local lakes

'A lot of them have careers at stake and a lot of them have a lot of ambitions to go play pro hockey,' says Colts majority owner

'It sucks. Last season we didn’t have a season, and we just started getting back into the groove of things,' says Terriers leading scorer

Anastasia Baillie is a member of Orillia Figure Skating Club's enhancement team and also enjoys dancing, painting, reading and is a young entrepreneur

'This is really disappointing for athletes of all ages and for people who use the gym as a way to get out of the house and stay active,' says local NCAA lacrosse player

'We are kind of putting Orillia on the map a bit for baseball,' says Chase Brennan, who, with Max Rutherford, is heading to Iowa to play baseball

'My injury changed my life forever. It put a hard stop to all sports, and I started searching for something to do,' says Patrick Fogarty grad who has become an author

Defenceman Lucas Wessinger, a Leafs fan, and his teammates will finally be back on the ice this weekend after a two-week Christmas break

'I think we are going to start seeing things getting shut down again ... If the kids have nowhere else to go, they can come here to skate,' says local businessman

Orillia Legion Minor Baseball president says his group is 'illegally locked out' of building due to lack of clarity between owner, landlord and Oro-Medonte Township