- More than one-third into the 2022-23 Heritage Junior Hockey League (HJHL) season, the Cochrane Generals proved the Okotoks Carstar Bisons were not unbeatable on Nov. 5, as they overcame them 5-4 at the Cochrane Arena to inflict the Okotokians’ first defeat of the season and end a 14-game winning streak. The upset improved the Gens’ record to 11-5-0
- The Cochrane Cobras showed their divisional supremacy on Nov. 9, with three of four volleyball teams (the senior boys and girls, as well as the junior varsity girls) winning the Rocky View Sports Association banner. The senior girls beat their perennial rival, the Springbank Phoenix, in four sets, while the senior boys were taken to five sets by the George McDougall Mustangs.
- Amidst a swirling snowstorm, the Cochrane Lions peewee football team ended their 2022 season on a high Nov. 5, beating the Calgary Hilltoppers 12-6 at Shouldice Park to secure the Calgary Peewee Football Association Div. 3 banner. The bantam Lions finished runners-up, losing to the Calgary Stampeders in their Div. 3 title game.
- In the semi-finals of the Tier 1 provincial playoffs on Nov. 19, the Cochrane Cobras surrendered a late touchdown to lose narrowly to the All Saints Legends for a spot in the ensuing ASAA Alberta Bowl. Cochrane were down 14-0 in the first half but managed to pull ahead 20-14 in the second half, before the Legends registered a last-minute touchdown and one-point convert. Before the defeat, the Cobras had beaten the Foothills Composite Falcons and Henry Wisewood Warriors in their other provincial playoff games.
- After sweeping the South Central Zones 3A tournaments the weekend prior, the Cochrane Cobras senior boys’ and girls’ volleyball teams ended their 2022 seasons by competing at provincials in Lethbridge Nov. 23 to 26. In a cruel instance of déjà vu that reflected how their 2021 season ended, the senior girls’ team lost in sudden-death in the third and final set of the gold-medal match. The senior boys’ Cobras, meanwhile, finished fourth.
- The Cochrane Endurance Project (CEP) sent 15 runners to race at the club cross-country championships in Ottawa on Nov. 26. According to head coach Travis Cummings, it was the largest cohort of CEP athletes sent to nationals in the club’s three-year history. A highlight was CEP’s senior women’s team, who finished seventh in the teams competition.
- Fourteen martial artists from Cochrane’s Trinity Taekwon-Do took home 19 medals from the 2022 Western Canadian Taekwon-Do Championships in Lethbridge on Nov. 26. Yellow-belt Lex Baker won gold for the Cochrane-based club in sparring.
