Sports Headlines / October 1, 2004

Lugg is no slug when it comes to ringette   You may have passed Katie Lugg on her way to the University of Ottawa to study commerce. Either way, you probably did not know the 19-year old Ottawa native will be playing for Team Canada in the 2004 world ringette championships, being held in Sweden this November.   Special Olympians skate into Minto Club   The Special Olympics Figure Skating Program has outgrown its home ice surface.The competitive figure skaters who had been using the ice at McNabb Arena have now been granted permission to use the Olympic-sized ice at the Minto Skating Club, McNabb opened exclusively for their learn-to-skate program.   Wheelchair basketball bounces into schools   After success in Athens, paralympians and supporters are bouncing back for the start of the Ottawa-Carleton Wheelchair Sports Association’s (OCWSA) in-school wheelchair program.   Column: Grey Cup recruitment efforts yards short of a touchdown   If this sounds like a commercial, it’s because it is. Well, in a sense. With less than six weeks left to game day, the city is already preparing to play host. It’s a chance it gets once in a “grey” moon. But behind the fanfare, corporate sponsorship and anticipation of watching football greats battle it out, there is much left undone. Enter the volunteers.