- It was Cochrane vs. Cochrane in the Rocky View Sports Association’s senior boys’ basketball league on Feb. 1, when the Bow Valley Bobcats faced off against the Cochrane Cobras. After a spirited 48 minutes of back-and-forth action, the Cobras players left the court victorious following an 88-57 win, in what was the first meeting of the two local teams that season. The two schools’ senior girls’ teams faced off the following nights, and the Cobras did the double over their cross-town rivals, downing the Bobcats 63-53 in overtime, after a 49-49 tie in regulation time.
- After a cancellation in 2021, the Kimmett Cup returned over the Feb. 3-4 weekend, bringing 25 teams to Cochrane to enjoy some good-old-fashioned pond hockey at Mitford Park while raising money for the Lindsay Leigh Kimmett Memorial Foundation. The tournament ultimately raised over $150,000* for the foundation.
- Long-serving Cochrane Cobras football coaches Rob McNab and Bruce O’Neil were inducted into the Alberta Sports Hall of Fame and the Football Alberta Hall of Fame for their decades of collaboration and success with the perennially successful high-school football program.
- While it didn’t put them on the podium, Cochrane luger Tristan Walker and his teammate Justin Snith of Calgary set a new men’s luge doubles start record at the 2022 Winter Olympic Games in Beijing, clocking a 7.013-second start on Feb. 9 at the Yanqing National Sliding Centre. Despite the speedy start, the duo ultimately finished seventh in their men’s double race with a two-race time of 1:57.918.
- Hoops for Hope, a basketball clinic featuring coaches from the Filipino Canadian Association of Cochrane Alberta and Calgary’s FCBA Blizzards, was held at the Spray Lake Sawmills Family Sports Centre on Feb. 27. Proceeds from the clinic raised funds to support disaster relief efforts in the Philippines, following the devastation caused by Typhoon Rai on Dec. 16, 2021.
- The Cochrane Chaos beat the Calgary Jags in a best-of-three south division semi-final on Feb. 20, to move onto the south division finals of the Alberta Junior Female Hockey League playoffs. The Chaos swept the Jags with 4-1 and 5-2 victories.
- The Cochrane Generals produced a come-from-behind victory in a do-or-die semi-final playoff series game against the Rocky Rams on Feb. 27, to force Game 7. Cochrane kept the momentum going by dousing the Rams 6-1 in Game 7 to book their berth in the HJHL North Division finals against the Red Deer Vipers.
