The ‘Birds have everything it takes to win this game, the bigger question is whether UBC is ready to watch them win.
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October 10 marked the return of the UBC eSports Association’s bimonthly Super Smash Bros. tournaments.
The UBC men’s hockey team started their season with back-to-back wins at home against the Mount Royal Cougars.
After picking up two shutout wins on the road against Northern BC last week, UBC men’s soccer extended their winning streak to seven games by earning yet another shutout victory against the Victoria Vikings.
Thunderbirds women’s soccer tied the University of Victoria Vikes, 2-2, in a tight, high-intensity match.
Last year, the UBC Quidditch team finally achieved a goal that it had been gunning for since its inception in 2010. They made it to the Quidditch World Cup in South Carolina. With a third position in the Northwest division, and ranked number 1 in their region, the team snagged a spot amongst 80 teams — beating a sizeable amount of American teams for it — and went on to represent UBC, and the rest of Canada, for the first time at the World Cup.
5:45 a.m., Tempe, Arizona: Conor Lillis-White’s alarm clock goes off. He stirs and hits the snooze button. But then he remembers why he has to wake up, and slowly rises out of bed.
For advanced divers looking for a unique experience, Howe Sound is the only place in the world where glass sponge reefs known as bioherms are found at air-diveable depths. Bioherms were once thought to have gone extinct sometime in the Jurassic period and were only rediscovered alive in the late 1980s. Made completely of sponge, these huge reefs rise up from seemingly empty ocean floor and have become home to many other creatures.
After a UBC turnover, Memorial returned with a layup, followed by another UBC turnover, and another layup by Gordon to cut UBC’s lead to just five with two minutes left. But that’s as close as Memorial would get as the teams proceeded to trade baskets, finishing with UBC on top 88-81.
A cluster of people huddle around the UBC skate park. Music from seventies rock to hip hop to reggae blasts out, mixed with the percussive slap of skateboards on cement and the charcoal smell of barbequed hot dogs. The crowd eagerly anticipates the next big trick.
After the sports reviews two years ago resulted in teams being stripped of their varsity level status, UBC Athletics and Recreation have collaborated with nine clubs to form an alternative competitive stream for AMS-recognized sports clubs. The stream will allow the clubs to compete under the UBC Thunderbird name in competitive, non-varsity leagues. The new student-run teams will be able to compete for UBC in sports that are not available as varsity sports at the university.
As we approached the far beach to grab our baton, we almost got soaked. Our runner leapt out of the moving vessel as soon as he could reach land which then sent the left side leaning dangerously close to sea level. Luckily, our squad managed to stabilize ourselves before we lost any more balance.
The 2015 edition of UBC Recreation’s Day of the Longboat event saw an all-time attendance record, buoyed by the commendable efforts of its passionate organizing team.
This past weekend, the UBC Thunderbird’s team defeated both the University of Regina Cougars and the University of Saskatchewan Huskies on David Sidoo field. They left the Cougars out in the cold with a 3-0 shutout, and then battled to get a 4-0 win over the huskies
“I thought we had them,” said Morgan, who lead UBC in scoring with 20. “We just didn’t perform well in the clutch … But it’s a long season, and that’s the whole reason we had this tournament right: to get the kinks out early. So I think we’ll see those guys later on in the year and hopefully we’ll get the better of them”