UBC women's hockey team secured their fourth Canada West championship after a weekend sweep against the Saskatchewan Huskies last week. The T-Birds will head to the U Sports National Tournament in PEI happening from March 24 to 27 in an attempt to capture their first ever national championship title.
The T-Birds spent the weekend at Kenyon Court at Mount Royal University, looking to advance to the quarter finals for the Canada West championships, hosted by the University of Alberta. The ‘Birds faced off against the University of Calgary Dinos and Mount Royal University Cougars.
This season was nothing short of impressive, and with a first-round bye, the UBC men's hockey team will now set their sights on returning to the conference finals, and reaching their ultimate goal of playing for the University Cup.
With a smile, Butenschön remarked that his team will take 24 hours to celebrate the victory, before turning their full attention to the Canada West finals. UBC will head to Edmonton to take on the University of Alberta Golden Bears in two weeks time, with the winner taking home a championship banner.
For Toth, the opportunity has been the cherry on top of an astonishing final season with UBC. He currently leads the Canada West in nearly every goaltending statistic, posting a .930 save percentage and a 1.99 GAA with a record of 10–3–1.
“There's literally no standards for your body type, or what you look like,” Bauder said, encouraging others to not shy away from getting involved. “You have a place no matter what, so don't be afraid to try out.”
Playing volleyball has always come naturally to MacTaggart, a master's of Indigenous community planning student in the School of Community and Regional Planning and member of the women's volleyball team.
The T-Birds left victorious with a win against the Spartans. This puts the T-Birds second in the Canada West standings and they are two points ahead of the University of Manitoba Bisons.
Upon moving to Vancouver in 2016, Eyster grew bored of “running in squares or rectangles” on Vancouver’s predictable, grid-like streets. Eyster decided in the summer of 2019 to work towards running every street in Vancouver.
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For Miswaggon of the women's hockey team, being a female athlete “means wanting to show that I can and will do anything I want in sports and prove to others that said I couldn’t.”
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The assistant coach of the UBC women’s volleyball team, Jodi Zbyszewski shared how she became involved in coaching and her experience in the industry as a woman in sports.
I would have never thought I'd be at UBC doing what I'm doing. But I owe all my success to my past coaches, my current coaches and the people I got to play with throughout these years of my athletic career," said Robertsen.
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