Hear from the people who helped shape some of N.L.’s biggest sports moments of 2025
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Newfoundland and Labrador punched above its weight in sports, and 2025 gave the province the chance to shine on the national and international stages.
Starting in late 2024 with a provincial designation that 2025 would be the Year of Sport, the province's athletes didn't disappoint with their fair share of highlight moments.
Here are just a few of Newfoundland and Labrador's standout sporting moments in 2025, shared by the people who made them possible.
Long before 2025, many in Newfoundland and Labrador knew the summer would bring sporting opportunities not seen in nearly half a century. The Canada Games returned to St. John’s for the first time since 1977.
More than 4,200 athletes competed in 19 sports across the two-week event, but none shined brighter for Team N.L. than Gavin Baggs.
At just 18, Baggs won four of the province’s seven total medals at the Games across two sports, swimming and para-track-and-field.
"It was definitely the craziest Games experience I've ever had,” Baggs, who was competing in his fourth Canada Games, told CBC News in early December.
“I wouldn't have done any other thing this summer than prepare for the Canada Games and compete at the Canada Games, because it truly was an unreal experience."
Baggs said he was driven by the hometown crowd each time he wheeled to the starting line, adding it gave him the boost he needed to compete.
Now that the Games are complete, and legacy venues still stand, Baggs said he hopes the success of the Games can keep the momentum moving forward in Newfoundland and Labrador.
"[We] need to keep training like [we're] still training for the Canada Games," he said.
“We need to ride off that wave of training level, and we need to keep it high. And if we keep it high, then the future of sport in Newfoundland is just going to keep getting better and better."
Heading into the new year, Baggs is continuing his training in sledge hockey, hopeful to earn a spot on Canada’s Paralympic sledge hockey team.
History-making moments were also made on the diamond during the Canada Games, when Newfoundland and Labrador stepped on to the field in the first women’s baseball match in the competition’s history.
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