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After early Adanac exit, Veltman primed for start of NLL campaign with...
Daryl Veltman is excited about the start of the NLL season. (Boston Blazers.) The National Lacrosse League season opens Sunday. Daryl Veltman’s been counting it down for 162 days or so. An early July...
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Toronto Rock star Garrett Billings: If we don’t have a ring at the end of the...
Toronto Rock sniper Garrett Billings is ready for Philly. (www.torotorock.com) Garrett Billings is certain of how he wants the winter lacrosse season to end. He seems very much up in the air about the...
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UBC wins dual CIS national titles in the pool as King and Gossland selected MVPs
It was all blue and gold in the pool at the University of Montreal on Saturday. The UBC Thunderbirds returned to past glory at the CIS national championships, winning both the men’s and women’s team...
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University notebook: TWU’s volleyball men show Spartan spirit in comeback...
The Trinity Western Spartans will open play Friday against Dalhousie as the No. 1 seed at the CIS men’s national championships at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ont. The No. 1-ranked, defending champs...
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Clan softball not in hunt for nats, but SFU crew proves mettle against GNAC’s...
BURNABY — There is no national championship tournament in the cards this season for the Simon Fraser Clan women’s softball team, but don’t take that to mean that longtime head coach Mike Renney isn’t...
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CIS MVP’s, NAIA champs, Olympians: UBC’s Big Block Awards celebrate sterling...
VANCOUVER — How tough was the competition to earn accolades Wednesday evening at UBC’s 91st annual Big Block awards? How this for starters? A total of seven athletes were nominated for the two main...
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University notebook 4.14.12: UBC baseball wins pair in Portland, SFU track,...
NAIA BASEBALL PORTLAND, ORE. — It was a day of famine then feast for UBC baseball, but in the end, the Thunderbirds found a way to take both ends of an NAIA West double-header Saturday in Portland...
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University notebook 4.15.12: Clan softball splits at Central, UBC baseball...
Central Washington never let Simon Fraser get its offence in gear, forcing the visiting Clan to settle for a split of its Great Northwest Athletic Conference softball double header on Sunday in...
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CIS’ best and brightest in 2012: UBC’s Pendleton, TWU’s Ball earn BLG...
For the 10,000-plus athletes who compete annually in Canadian Interuniversity Sport, you could say there are five degrees of difficulty to navigate on the road to a dream season. First, be named your...
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TRU WolfPack’s Lowey comes out swinging six months after losing right eye to...
They say that the eyes are the mirror to the soul, and even though Tyler Lowey has been robbed of one of his, it’s still plain to see he has the inner focus to overcome the odds. Despite losing an eye...
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Baseball ‘Birds return home for final homestand, face Tech Owls with chance...
The UBC Thunderbirds play the final home stand of its 2012 NAIA West baseball season Saturday and Sunday as they welcome the Oregon Tech Hustlin’ Owls in a pair of double headers to be played on campus...
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Fruson producin’, base-Birds execute in clutch to take both ends from Oregon...
VANCOUVER — Austin Fruson is all about producing. On Saturday, no one was worried about the .128 batting average or the six total hits on the season the third-year infielder had posted in his limited...
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Sunday splits: UBC baseball, SFU softball each start strong but lack the...
Even though they have to, by virtue of the league rules, the Simon Fraser Clan softball team is playing like it’s not waiting until next year. The Clan are nearing completion of their final provisional...
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Sammie O’s swings carry Simon Fraser to softball derby win over crosstown...
RICHMOND — On an evening of drizzle and late spring chill, it was Sammie Olexa who stepped up to the plate and made the temperature swing in her team’s favour. The Simon Fraser right fielder swung the...
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Softball sisters from the start: Ribeiro, Haberl set to close Clan softball...
BURNABY — They started first grade together on the same day back in September of 1996 at Burnaby’s Seaforth Elementary School. Through the years, they played on the same baseball, softball, ringette,...
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As NAIA playoffs beckon, baseball ‘Birds soldier on past injuries to new...
The UBC Thunderbirds, as injury-riddled as a baseball team can be down the stretch drive of a regular season, seemed to have re-invented themselves with the post-season now calling. For the third...
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NCAA ‘rookies’ impressive, Clan battle for GNAC softball crown decided in finale
The Simon Fraser Clan took their battle for the Great Northwest Athletic Conference championship right down to the wire on Saturday, battling not only the first-place Montana State-Billings...
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From panacea to panic: Tsunami survivor Pipher has life’s path altered during...
VANCOUVER — The 12-year-old girl from Kelowna awoke in the wee hours one morning, just two days after Christmas, on a yacht sailing through the tropics. “There was a full moon that night,” Hayley...
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Tee-Birds win second NAIA national golf title in three seasons, Vike wins...
The UBC Thunderbirds topped George’s Savannah College by two strokes Friday in Greenville, Tenn., to capture the program’s second NAIA women’s golf national title in the past three years. “We knew we...
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The Province’s Recruits List complete: 2006-07 to 2011-12
Here’s your complete base of The Province’s annual Recruits List. Chances are, if you graduated from a BC high school from 2007 onwards and went on to play collegiate sports, your name is contained...
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