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The 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.
“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.”
Read the Highlight Reel to catch the Fulcrum’s sports coverage of the Nov. 29-30 weekend.
The 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.
The 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.
In 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.
Considering Franco-Ontarians are plenty in number but hugely underrepresented at universities throughout the province, it’s an important discussion to have.
This week’s highlight reel includes men’s basketball, women’s basketball, and women’s volleyball.
The 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.
This 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.
Get your fill of this weekend’s sports with women’s volleyball, men’s and women’s basketball.
In this week’s issue we have women’s volleyball, men’s hockey, women’s hockey.
The University of Ottawa men’s and women’s swim teams participated in and won the Go Kingfish Invitational on Nov. 1, where they hosted swim clubs from the University of Guelph, Queen’s University, Carleton University, and the Go-Kingfish swimclub. Although the meet hosted a variety of universities, the points were tallied in terms of duals.
The Hightlight Reel covers men’s football in OUA quarterfinals, women’s hockey and Cross-country in the OUA championship this week.
Internationally, a proposed solution to solving gender inequality in canoeing at the Olympics is to terminate the sport altogether.
The ever-competitive Gee-Gees women’s volleyball team began its season with two victories this weekend, against Queen’s University on Oct. 25 and Royal Military College (RMC) on Oct. 27.
Meet Carolyn Cook, a first-year student in ethics and society and a rookie on the swim team. Cook grew up in Canada and has moved back home after attending high school in New York State. Here, she’s already making Ontario University Athletics (OUA) times.
Gees give up first loss to Ravens in 20 years, but end the historical season in loss to Queen’s in OUA quarterfinals.
“It was a great win for us,” said fourth-year U of O science student Elyssa Dobson. “Almost enough to make the season. Winning provincials would’ve been nice too.”
Read sports coverage over the reading week from Oct. 11- 20.
While his mind was focused on dividing and conquering the food, I was focused on pacing myself and readying myself for the final hurdle. It takes about 20 minutes for your stomach to tell your brain that it’s full, so if you eat too quickly in the first five minutes, by the 25-minute mark you’ll be choking.
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The Panda Bowl’s return was nothing short of exciting. The stands were filled, since the event sold out the 4,000-seat capacity by Friday at noon, with more than 800 standing tickets sold in surplus. The game was preceded by a reunion of alumni players from both Carleton University and the University of Ottawa’s football teams, who led the game with an honorary kick-off. The air was full of cheers from both Gee-Gees and Ravens fans.
Drinking water before you exercise, especially in the two hours preceding a workout, is essential to staying hydrated.
