Mark your calendars for October 14th because we’re celebrating not one but two momentous anniversaries within Sport Venture! 2017 marks twenty years of our sports equipment lending library being open, and the ever popular Outdoor Hockey League will have its 25th season this year. What do you need to know? What: A community gathering to celebrate Sport Venture – everyone is welcome! (free…
The Monday Night Football league officially kicked off on September 5th at the brand new Mosaic Stadium! Members of the Saskatchewan Roughriders and Regina Riot were on hand to run drills and sign autographs for the excited league participants. The league will run from September 18th til October 16th, with weekly practices from 6 - 7:30 p.m. at the stadium. See you on the…
Alright, Monday night – where are you? We’ve been waitin’ all year for Monday night! While Ehrlo Sport Venture’s Monday Night Football League may not be on the level of the NFL (or CFL) Monday night games, we do have one thing in common this year – our entire league will be run out of the brand new Mosaic Stadium, which means our participants get to play on the same field as the…
For the second year, Ehrlo Sport Venture has teamed up with the Open Door Society to host a multi-sport camp for youth new to Canada. The four-day camp ran from August 1st – 4th and covered sports ranging from the more familiar basketball and Canadian football, to more unique like cricket and lacrosse. “Lacrosse was something they’d never seen – it was so new to them, and they were…
In the spirit of sport and community, Ehrlo Sport Venture teamed up with the Regina Red Sox to host an equipment drive. Each spring, Sport Venture receives an uptake of visitors looking for gloves, bats, and baseballs, and unfortunately, every season, there are some people who are turned away as a result of not having enough equipment. Help us fix that! Attendees of the Wednesday, July 12th…
While all of Ehrlo Sport Venture’s leagues are free-of-charge (including equipment), soccer is uniquely barrier free in a way that many other sports are not. Sport Venture works to provide inner-city youth and families with control of, and access to, a variety of recreational programs in the city of Regina. Offering barrier free sports means we see youth from all different backgrounds,…
Join us as we kick off summer with the Ehrlo Soccer League! As all our leagues, ESL is free of charge and all equipment is provided to participants – all you need is a willingness to have fun! Practices will run once weekly for seven weeks in four locations around the city. Stay tuned for more information about our kick off on July 4th! Register here
What goes up must come down (like a basketball, for example), and all that begins must eventually end (like basketball season). On that note, the Ehrlo Basketball League’s year end tournament has been scheduled for June 10th at the Regina Christian High School (2505 23rd Avenue). Atom schedule ( 9 a.m. to 12:25 p.m.) Bantam schedule (1 p.m. to 6:10 p.m.) …
We’re bouncing right along into basketball season! The Ehrlo Basketball League will get underway April 15th with Elite Basketball Academy running our kick off celebration! It is slated to begin at 10 a.m. at the University of Regina’s Gym 3. Kickoff being ran by Elite Basketball Academy EBL has two age groups: atom (ages 6 to 11) and bantam (ages 12 to 16) and five locations: Arcola…
All good things must come to an end, and with that, we’ve reached the end of the 2017 OHL season. As every year, a round robin style wrap-up tournament has been scheduled for each age group at the Pilot Butte indoor rink. The senior players will take the ice March 11th and the juniors will have their day March 12th. Free transportation is available from each of the local rinks to the tournament…
February 18th was a special day at the Cathedral Outdoor Hockey League (OHL) rink. The team held a mini outdoor tournament in conjunction with Hockey Day in Canada, as well as a ribbon cutting and official unveiling of their new player’s benches. The benches, explained head coach Pete Joyce, were a necessity for Cathedral because without them they didn’t have proper facilities to play…
Ehrlo Sport Venture is one of Ranch Ehrlo Society’s community services – and being a community service means that it’s of utmost importance that we are out in the community as much as possible! We strive to continually connect with the people we serve so that we can better determine their needs. Some of the ways Ehrlo Sport Venture does this is are obvious – for example, providing…
A relationship that begun last year has served Ehrlo Sport Venture, and the Outdoor Hockey league (OHL) in particular, very well. “Over the past year through correspondence with Canadian Tire Jumpstart, we decided that our missions aligned,” explained Sport Venture manager Amanda McConnell. Jumpstart offered to sponsor Sport Venture’s leagues, all of which provide equipment and are…
Check out the schedule for the indoor games at the Cooperators Centre. Thank you to the Cooperators for donating the ice time to the OHL. All youth should arrive to the game 30 minutes prior so they can get dressed on time. We suggest that you come to the games partially dressed in gear. In addition, if a youth requires a ride to the game please remind call Sport Venture at 306-751-7511 by…
That’s a wrap, folks! The January 6th Regina Pats home game was host to an equipment drive for Ehrlo Sport Venture and two full truckloads of donations were collected! We didn’t do it alone, and we would like to take some time to thank everyone who partnered with us to make this latest initiative so successful. To the Pats’ organization for hosting, and Bennett Dunlop Ford for…
