Reading Time: 5 minutesWhat’s missing from the broader conversation is a health framework that values how athletes live and feel in their bodies, not just how efficiently their bodies perform.
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Reading Time: 5 minutes“It’s been a fun dynamic. Having them as a constant energy really hypes up everyone else that comes to our games.”
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Reading Time: 9 minutesEntering the 2025-26 season with a host of familiar faces, the Gee-Gees Women’s Volleyball Team look to make noise in a crowded OUA playoff picture.
Reading Time: 3 minutesThe Tournoi Griffons will be the first of three consecutive weekends of competition for the team, and the only local event of the fall. The tournament is the only tune-up event for the Gee-Gees prior to a marquee event in Toronto the following week.
Reading Time: 4 minutesNew director outlines how to improve Gee-Gees program going forward.
Reading Time: 2 minutesWhether you’re looking for a light stroll, or want to do some serious long-distance training, there’s no excuse to not take advantage of our university’s prime location in the nation’s capital.
Reading Time: 2 minutesNot everyone can afford fancy exercise equipment on a student budget. Here are a few home-made solutions to help keep you fit and healthy throughout exam season.
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe University of Ottawa Nordic ski club is still at the earliest stage of development. But that’s not a concern for the members of the group, who are determined to get themselves “competitive club” status from the university.
Reading Time: 2 minutesAlthough the hijab has been heavily politicized in recent times, it’s refreshing to see that these female athletes are continuing to break boundaries and being unapologetically bold and fearless.
Reading Time: 2 minutesWith a number of key players recently graduated, the Gees were prepared to take a step back this year. However, they surpassed their expectations, improving on their overall finish from the previous season.
Reading Time: 2 minutesWhile this year’s tournament was originally scheduled to take place on Saturday, Jan. 21, the ice was too thin to skate on thanks to a treacherously mild winter.
Reading Time: 2 minutesJust in time for back to school, Fulcrum staffers give you some suggestions on the different types of athletic shoes you can pick up to start your semester off on the right foot.
Reading Time: < 1 minuteIt’s best to perfect something that is healthy, quick, and easy to dish out in a pinch.
Reading Time: 4 minutesFour former Gee-Gees donned the red and white in Brazil, one received a medal, while one missed out on hardware, but was a member of a winning squad.
Reading Time: 3 minutesHere are ten fitness activities you can take advantage of in either location this summer!
Reading Time: 2 minutes“Overall I’m really proud of the team… we were all able to band together and continue to work hard to achieve our goals.”—Michael Howard.
Reading Time: 3 minutesThe media outcry following these events have pulled back the curtains on a rarely breached wall between athletes and the media.
Reading Time: 2 minutesn co-operation with the CIS, the CFL Draft offers a sort of security blanket for its Canadian college draftees. It’s a safeguard, so to speak, which allows for CFL-drafted Canadian collegiate athletes to return to university even after being drafted, if they so choose, and continue playing football at the CIS level.
Reading Time: 3 minutesThe university’s website calls the Sports Complex ‘the university’s state-of-the-art sports facility’, which may have been so 15 years ago, but is no longer true.
Reading Time: < 1 minuteHere’s a healthy twist on one of my all-time favourite guilty pleasures—bread pudding.
Reading Time: 2 minutesRochette’s bronze medal win was exceedingly emotional, as she received the news of her mother’s death just days before but still managed to enthrall a nation and earn a podium finish.
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe Sandy Hill Winter Classic Charity Tournament is an event where teams filled with members of the university community come together to raise money for the Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, and face-off in some pickup hockey.
Reading Time: 3 minutesOver the break stay out of the elements and enjoy these sports gems.
Reading Time: 2 minutesAs sports fans, we hate seeing old players whose physical abilities fall a crucial step behind their mental experience.
Reading Time: 3 minutesOld-timers once cavalierly called it “getting your bell rung”, but concussions have since evolved into a very serious problem in the NFL.
