Sophia Ferreira is a pretty stoic soccer player; she’s level-headed on the field and isn’t the first one to show emotion. But it was different when, after the UBC women’s soccer team lost the 2023 Canada West championship on penalty kicks, she saw Ava Ferreira — her teammate and sister. While this may seem unique, they are not the only set of siblings who play on the same varsity team at UBC.
Several members of Sulong UBC were among the 100+ demonstrators gathered for a protest against the G7 leadership on National Indigenous Peoples Day on Saturday afternoon, taking over some of downtown Vancouver’s busiest streets to call attention to various anti-imperialist issues a week after world leaders met at the high-stakes summit in Kananaskis, Alberta.
With the RAD Society, Dr. William C Miller is working to provide low-cost rentals of adaptive recreation equipment, such as hand crank bikes, in an gearbox run out of the SRC.
After the COVID-19 pandemic, the UBC alum found herself working in the arena and eventually behind the driver's seat of a Zamboni.
For the end of the 2024/25 academic year, we rounded up our top sports + rec staff to look back on the monumental year.
UBC Food Services have been going back to the basics, an approach that prioritizes wholesome, sustainable, local and diverse food. Executive Sous Chef of Retail, Restaurants and Catering Andy Chan tries to emulate this same value-based approach in his cooking.
As UBC’s Board of Governors (BoG) met in the Robert H. Lee Alumni Centre to approve the university’s 2025/26 budget last Friday, a group of about two-dozen protesters called on the BoG from outside the locked and guarded Alumni Centre to divest from companies they say are complicit in genocide and human rights abuses in Gaza and the West Bank.
The drive to embody the opposite mentality of the prep schools Dr. Yves Tiberghien experienced as a student in France motivated him to leverage compassion and innovative instruction techniques in his teaching to encourage curiosity and creativity, borrowing from his adventures around the world and the lived experiences he observed along the way.
As students filtered into UBC on March 24 and 25 they were met with the booming chants — and at times songs — of pro-Palestine protesters.
Across campus, there are countless people in roles under the umbrella of “sports media" — whether they write articles, take photos, shoot videos or generally contribute to the public promotion of sport, they all help tell the stories of UBC athletes.
Born in Winnipeg, the fourth-year guard was five years old when she started playing basketball, influenced by her dad, who also played the sport in college.
After moving to Canada from Mexico, bioinformatics PhD student Erick Navarro realized he missed dancing salsa at parties and family gatherings.
UBC's men's basketball head coach Kevin Hanson has a 25-year resume that's seen it all — and that's not even mentioning his own playing career.
Reflecting on the 2025 AMS elections, all three joke candidates offer an indictment of the current state of student politics — taking on issues of engagement, culture and toxicity they say are preventing the student union from doing the work of serving its constituents.
After a heartbreaking 68–61 loss to the University of Ottawa Gee-Gees on March 16, UBC's women’s basketball ended their season with a fourth-place finish in the U Sports Final 8 tournament.