The Bobcats, despite a woeful 6-9 conference record and being 10 points behind the ’Birds, defeated UBC 1-3 on Friday and 0-3 on Saturday. On Friday night, the Thunderbirds lost in four sets with set scores at 25-16, 15-25, 25-27 and 22-25.
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Women’s volleyball team took on the McEwan University Griffins this weekend on Friday and Saturday, beating them in both games to maintain their position in the Canada West conference and tying at second with sister school UBC Okanagan.
If a team’s performance at their homecoming game is a reliable index to how well their season will go, then the UBC women’s field hockey team would have been dead in the water. But the ‘Birds did not let their first game determine their season.
The UBC Thunderbirds' Lacrosse Sport Club has come a long way since its inception in the fall of 2012. What started with a couple of friends, three-foot long lacrosse sticks and a ball tossed around Totem Park Residence now has 25 players on its roster and is one of nine clubs selected to kick off the UBC Athletics' new athletic stream — the competitive club.
In their first CIS national final since 2006, the UBC women’s soccer team defeated the Trinity Western University Spartans 3-0.
This weekend at the War Memorial Gym, the UBC Women’s Volleyball team defeated the University of Calgary Dinos in two, four-set games 3-1 on both Friday and Saturday.
Over the weekend, the UBC Thunderbirds defeated the Manitoba Bisons in their first home game of the Canada West regular season.
Wright Field was the scene of two entertaining matches as the Thunderbirds went head-to-head against the University of Calgary Dinos for their final regular games of the season. The ‘Birds blew past the last placed Dinos, with 4-0 win on Saturday and 5-3 win on Sunday.
While you’ve been busy procrastinating midterms with Netflix, tubs of ice cream and Oreos, the UBC Thunderbird varsity athletes have been busy training, competing and winning — mostly.
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.
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
This weekend was a good homecoming for the UBC Thunderbirds women’s soccer, as they took both their games and pushed themselves to a season record of 4-1-0.
With newly hired head coach Marisa Kovacs, the team seems poised for success, coming out undefeated in preseason competition.
On August 22 UBC eSport's League of Legends team defeated CTU 2-0 in Gangnam, Korea, in the finals of the the 2015 AICC tournament.
The school year is drawing nearer. And with its approach comes our desire to buy things we do not need.