Sports

Your guide to all things sports and recreation at UBC! Check out our varsity coverage, athletic profiles, event coverage and dives into all types of movement on and off campus.

Illustrations of a sprinter, basketball player reaching for a jump ball, a volleyball player going to bump a ball, a swimmer mid front stroke and a hockey player hunched ready for a face-off are arranged in a circle/collage. Each player has green tint-ish skin with no facial features and are dressed in blue and white jerseys.

T-Birds 5-on-5: April assortments

Spring has sprung, the sun is back out on campus and the end of the semester is upon us. For our last T-Birds 5-on-5 of the 2024/25 season, we asked five assorted questions to five varsity athletes. Here are their answers.

A person watches a Seattle Seahawks game in a living room wearing a 'Wagner' jersey and backwards Seahawks hat.

Proud to be a fan

Being a fan of anything isn’t about being rational. It’s knowing that your passion might not be rational, and caring anyway.

A beige basketball court drawn with white lines and X's and O's over top of it.

How real is the home-court advantage?

Many sports can have a home-court advantage — where a team does better in home games than away ones. We broke down past national championship data for three sports to see if the home team really does have the upper leg when hosting.

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