Reading Time: 2 minutesAll Gee-Gees sports highlights from Friday, Jan. 17, including men’s hockey, women’s hockey, women’s basketball and men’s basketball.
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Reading Time: 4 minutesThe Fulcrum’s own Moose on the Loose had the chance to chat with Sportnet’s Donnovan Bennett about CIS rivalries, rising stars and what it means to be a sports fan
Reading Time: 3 minutesOwn the cold with a flurry of sports and activies on the calendar this month Photos courtesy of Richard Whittaker, SFUO, and Marc Jan The month of January has far more to offer in terms of entertainment than white powdery snow and chilly breezes. To keep you active, or at the very least entertained, the …
Reading Time: 3 minutesMen’s basketball, swim team head into second semester strong Men’s basketball The Gee-Gees men’s basketball team had a successful winter break, winning all three of their games at the Wesmen Classic tournament at the University of Winnipeg to take the championship. The Gee-Gees, the number two ranked team in the country, defeated the tournament hosts …
Reading Time: 4 minutesBasketball and hockey teams lead into 2014 with success Men’s basketball Many Gee-Gees competed and trained throughout the holidays while the rest of us stuffed our bellies with turkey and chocolates. The men’s basketball team travelled to the cold of Winnipeg after Christmas to compete in the Wesmen Classic at the University of Winnipeg. Fourth-year …
Reading Time: 2 minutesfter a few consecutive weeks of stuffing your body with a whole lot of cookies, ham, turkey and all the trimmings, it’s time to get back into the swing of another semester. The average student diet can often seem like a relief from our holiday extravagances. Often students come back to residence, apartments, and roommates …
Reading Time: 5 minutesThe Cavalry Awards are a series of honours given by the Fulcrum to various varsity athletes for outstanding performances and sportsmanship or eye-catching moments. It’s a simple way to let the athletes know we recognize their talent and appreciate the struggle they bear, in addition to being students, to make us proud fans. Although we’d love to give each one an award, we only have so much print space, so we had to make some tough decisions. The candidates aren’t nominated, but handpicked by the sports staff and volunteers at the Fulcrum and reflect our opinions.
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe Gee-Gees fell short of the Carleton Ravens by five points on Nov. 30 with a back-and-forth lead change throughout the game. Ultimately, the Ravens pulled away and kept the lead with four minutes left in the game.
Reading Time: 3 minutesFirst-year public international affairs student Angela Tilk has moved to the capital this year for her master’s program at the University of Ottawa—and for basketball. Tilk had great success at Ryerson University during her undergraduate years. She was known as the strong undersized post across the province. In her first year, she was awarded the Ontario University Athletics East All-Rookie Team, and then in the 2011–2012 season she was given the Second Team East All-Stars award.
Reading Time: 4 minutes“I think it affected me a lot more on a personal level than it did the rest of the team,” she said. “Since I’ve been around for five years and every year we haven’t lost until now, and it being my last year playing against them, it was disappointing to have experienced that.”
Reading Time: 2 minutesPolo is the sport of the aristocrats, but this new spin on it has a growing number of fans, teams, and players. Bike polo is an urban twist on the traditional game without the lavish costs.
Reading Time: 3 minutesRead the Highlight Reel to catch the Fulcrum’s sports coverage of the Nov. 29-30 weekend.
Reading Time: 3 minutesThe Nov. 22–23 hockey games were all but close in score, but went in completely differnt directions for the men and the women’s team.
Reading Time: 5 minutesLionel Woods started with the Gee-Gees 25 years ago as the assistant coach and athletic therapist. He never played a game of volleyball in his life, but took on the head coaching position in 1992 and has never looked back.
Reading Time: 3 minutesThe Gee-Gees remain undefeated and seem likely to maintain their number two ranking following their two games on the Nov. 22–23 weekend beating Waterloo 98–60 on Friday and Laurier 89–68 on Saturday night.
The Gee-Gees women’s basketball team took on the Waterloo Warriors and the Wilfred Laurier Golden Hawks on the Nov. 22–23 weekend at Montpetit Hall.
Reading Time: 2 minutesWhen asked if he thought his moustache was coming in well, Foucher replied, “Not for my girlfriend.”
Reading Time: < 1 minuteHere are nine thoughts that have been on my mind lately. Some are opinions based on facts and others are just straight facts. Either way, this is what the Moose says.
Reading Time: 2 minutesCarlsen brings an unorthodox style to the chess elites. His play-to-win attitude is what separates him from the rest of the world’s best and is what has enabled him to take a commanding lead in the first seven matches.
Reading Time: 2 minutesIn the Nov. 28 edition of the Highlight Reel, we cover two women’s volleyball games as well as the men’s and women’s swim team at three different meets.
Reading Time: 4 minutesSince Derouin started the Gees have moved up from a .500 regular season record to winning the bronze medal last year at the national championship.
Reading Time: 2 minutesThis week’s highlight reel includes men’s basketball, women’s basketball, and women’s volleyball.
Reading Time: 2 minutesRead the Fulcrum’s very own host of “Moose on the Loose,” Moussa Sangaré-Ponce’s thoughts on a few variety athletes and what it means to a Gee-Gees fan.
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe Gee-Gees spurred their hooves against Queen’s, Guelph, Waterloo, and Western on Nov. 16–17 in the Stratten divisional championship in Guelph. Although they only ranked third overall, their performance was exceptionally strong.
Reading Time: 2 minutesIt’s too cold. I don’t have time. I can’t afford that. We’ve heard just about every excuse in the book for why health and fitness is the first to-do item on the list to fall by the wayside in university (that is, if it even makes it to the to-do list).
Reading Time: 2 minutesThis week, the Fulcrum met up with Carling Nigul-Chown to find out more about the third-year social science student and power forward for the women’s hockey team. The British Columbia native stands at 5’10 with a presence that cannot be missed on the ice, regardless of which team you’re on.
