We’ve saved the most important award for last — MVP. After our discussion, it was clear that nobody was more important to their team than Lucy Borowski was to Women’s Volleyball.
While the offensive-minded players may get more statistics and accolades, there’s a reason that “defence wins championships” is a cliché. Many teams across UBC varsity sport this year have succeeded because of a great defence, and no player was more vital to those efforts than Jake Lee.
When you’re leading the country in goals for two straight years and breaking records set by Hayley Wickenheiser in her prime, you’re probably doing something right. Grace Elliott is a special player, and her excellence this season was more than enough to earn our Offensive Player of the Year nod.
UBC has had plenty of promising rookies across the T-Birds’ varsity teams this year, but no first-year player made quite the same impact that Sophie Harrison did. Coming to UBC from England, Harrison immediately became a key part of the country’s best defence.
For our fourth award, we’ll be recognizing the player that made the largest jump in play from year-to-year — and for us, that was receiver Trey Montour, who came out of nowhere to produce a spectacular, star-making season.
For our third award, we’re recognizing the most impactful moment of the year — a play, an off-the-field story, a celebration — a single point in time that has resonated for months after. The easy winner here was the last-second try that clinched a championship for Women’s Rugby, in front of their home crowd, no less.
For the second award, we’re recognizing the best sporting event of the year, a single game that stood above the rest in terms of tension, excitement and stakes. In the closest vote of all our awards, Men’s Basketball’s semifinal comeback win against Winnipeg took the win here.
After watching UBC’s varsity teams throughout the year, The Ubyssey’s Sports team has come together to bestow awards on the best athletes, teams and moments of the year. Up first, Team of the Year.
At this point in the year, all of UBC’s varsity sports have played their last games of 2025. With the courts, rinks and fields going silent until January, our Sports + Rec team is here to recount how each varsity team has performed thus far.
For the end of the 2024/25 academic year, we rounded up our top sports + rec staff to look back on the monumental year.
The past 12 months have been a whirlwind for the UBC Thunderbirds — complete with various championships, drafts, milestones and highlight-worthy plays.
September is a busy month. Here's what you might have missed from your T-Birds.
For our final print issue of the 2023/24 academic year, we asked five Ubyssey sports writers the most important questions about the Thunderbirds' year.
Underdogs, come back stories, frontrunners: the Thunderbirds have been it all in 2023. Here is The Ubyssey’s top 10.
For our last print issue of the 2022/23 academic year, we asked five Ubyssey sports writers five questions about the Thunderbirds season.
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