The women’s hockey team made history on Sunday night. After surviving two back-to-back elimination games, the ’Birds held on to a 3-2 victory against the Regina Cougars to bring the Canada West Final series to home ice next Friday.
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Think you can dance for five hours straight? That's exactly what UBC Free the Children and Evolution EDC wants you to do to raise money for Free the Children — an international charity — and their clean water and sanitation programs.
After capturing both Canada West championships back in November, the UBC swim team will travel to the Université Laval to take on the 2016 Speedo CIS Swimming Championships. “We expect to have a battle on our hands,” said head coach Steve Price.
It’s been a hour since we left UBC and now we’re making a pit stop to re-supply for whatever lies ahead. If you don’t need your daily breakfast dose of fried chicken and cherry Coke, then by all means continue right through Chilliwack.
UBC Dance Club will play host to the Gala Ball over the March 5 weekend, welcoming over 230 ballroom dancers to the Great Hall for the first time in the history of the Nest. The event itself consists of all levels of ballroom dance competition.
“It ain’t about how hard you hit, it’s about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward.” Rocky Balboa’s words ring ever so true for the UBC women’s volleyball team and their season. Going up against them in the playoffs will be no easy task.
The 2015-16 season has been anything but a smooth ride for the women’s basketball team. But after a 9-11 regular season, it is now time for the Thunderbirds to wipe the slate clean as they hit the road this weekend to take on the UFV Cascades.
It’s time to get pucked up. The UBC women’s hockey team are kicking off their playoff campaign after finishing second in the league as they face off the Regina Cougars this weekend at the Doug Mitchell Thunderbirds Sports Centre.
UBC’s new Aquatic Centre is scheduled to be completed by November of 2016. The centre will feature a 50-metre competition pool, 25-metre pool, a leisure pool and a hot tub, each of which will occupy a different space and operate on a different tank.
UBC’s announced new inductees to the UBC Sports Hall of Fame last week. Among those inducted into the athletes category were track and cross country star Jeff Schiebler, quarterback Jordan Gagner, and basketball player Erica McGuinness.
For you, tonight just might your last night of the homework-free bliss of reading week. For Diana Lee and Adrienne Parkin, it's so much more. Both are fifth-year athletes on the Thunderbirds women's basketball team and tonight is senior night.
Fresh off a Vanier Cup championship, football head coach Blake Nill has immediately started building a recruiting class for the 2016 season. Among the recruiting class are offensive and defensive linemen Jagroop Sandhu and Ryan Von Ende.
Saturday provided the backdrop for a stop-and-start encounter between the men’s soccer team and WFC2, the Whitecaps affiliate team that competes in the United Soccer League. It was a scrappy, rain soaked match that saw WFC2 squeeze by the ’Birds 2-0.
UBC men’s hockey team finished the regular season, narrowly securing a playoff spot. “It doesn’t matter now ... how the season ended. We go and win a couple of games in Calgary and we’ll be all right,” said Adam Shell, UBC's head coach.
"I was actually a walk-on to the team. I just thought I'd try out and I ended up making it." Now Mackenzie Siddall, a second-year kinesiology student from Windsor, Ontario, plays the outfield and pitches for the Thunderbird softball team.