The West Coast Challenge (formerly known as the British Columbia Cup or BC Footy Cup) is an Australian rules football competition in British Columbia, Canada.
The prize is the BC Cup.
The 2004 inaugural event, held in Vancouver was won by the Alberta Roos.[1]
The 2005 event, held in Vancouver was won by the Alberta Roos.
The format was changed in 2006 to the West Coast Challenge Cup and the venue of Thunderbird Stadium was chosen and the Grand Final was won by the Calgary Kangaroos.
Daryn Ashcroft is the current world champion.
In Holland the West Coast Challenge is a run-bike extreme sport event to raise money for the KNRM. The KNRM or Royal Netherlands Sea Rescue organisation is a voluntarily organisation, who perform rescues on the North Sea. The West Coast Challenge is a race on the beaches of Holland over a total distance of 128 km. One of the participants is always running on the beach, the other accompanies him on a mountainbike.
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