Reading Time: 2 minutesMembers of the University of Ottawa’s men’s hockey team will be allowed to play for another school while the Gee-Gees team is suspended, Canadian Interuniversity Sport (CIS) has ruled.
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Reading Time: 2 minutesThese pre-season exhibition matches are a valuable time to learn and grow while gaining needed game experience against high-level squads on both sides. The Gee-Gees have to adjust to the size and speed of their American counterparts and NCAA teams will have to get used to a faster paced game, mainly due to a shorter 24-second shot clock.
Reading Time: 2 minutesIn the first match of a four-game pre-season series where the Gee-Gees will face teams from the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), the garnet and grey defeated the Indiana Hoosiers 109-101 in a packed house at CÉGEP Champlain in Longueil, Que.
Reading Time: 3 minutesThree-Gee-Gee cheerleaders on going pro with the RedBlacks Photo credit: Spencer Murdock University of Ottawa cheerleaders Alex Juneau, Jenny Laviolette, and Stephanie Constantinidis have just made the jump to the pros with Ottawa’s brand new Canadian Football League (CFL) team, the Ottawa RedBlacks. Coming from different backgrounds and levels of cheer, the ladies all eventually …
Reading Time: 7 minutesStudents always ask about the history of their school, and who might have thought of representing the University of Ottawa with a horse. What the hell is a Gee-Gee and who thought of making this the symbol of pride for our athletes and students? Other universities across Canada have a deep history of how their logo began. …
Reading Time: 2 minutesEquestrian Team Photo credit: Rebecca Palmer Before one of her competitions, third-year psychology and public administration student, Emma Munro of the equestrian team sat down with the Fulcrum to talk about everything about falling off a horse to addressing the Gee-Gees’ surprising bond with Carleton University. Munro competes in both flat and hunter jumping across …
Reading Time: 2 minutesComing off a hot season, women’s team will strive for gold this year Photo credit: Courtenay Whyte If you have patience, a good handicap, and time to practice in the summertime, Kelsey Studiman insists you try out for the Gee-Gees women’s golf team. The team finished seventh overall in the Ontario University Athletics (OUA) championship …
Reading Time: < 1 minuteThunder Bay police made a trip to Ottawa to investigate the alleged gang sexual assault by several members of the University of Ottawa men’s hockey team. However, police say some members of the team have refused to cooperate with police.
Reading Time: 3 minutesFormer varsity basketball player plans to manage fashion, sports, and music Photo by Moussa Sangaré-Ponce Dimitrios Seymour plans to be a star manager. The fashion, sports, and music industries are some of the biggest factors in today’s modern pop culture. Some have conquered one of them and even fewer have conquered all three. The entrepreneurship student …
Reading Time: 3 minutesThe Gee-Gees men’s basketball season can be described with three P’s: pain, progress, and perseverance.
Reading Time: 3 minutesMaybe it’s this reckless eagerness for warm weather that’s the reason why the dreaded March cold and flu season exists, but by the end of the month most Gee-Gees are asking: Is it over yet?
Reading Time: 3 minutesIt was a tale of two games for the Gee-Gees, as the first half showcased the Huskies’ fight as well as some jitters from the Gees, while the second was the complete reverse.
Reading Time: 2 minutesA historic season for the University of Ottawa Gee-Gees men’s basketball team came to a close Sunday afternoon.
Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe number-one-seeded Gee-Gees kicked off their quest for gold with a 94–73 victory over the eighth-seeded wildcard Saskatchewan Huskies in the quarterfinal of Canada’s biggest collegiate basketball event of the year.
Reading Time: 2 minutesThis type of sports fan’s cheers and rooting interests are generally limited to one city. Even when their team is performing poorly, they don’t care as long as teams from a rival city are worse off.
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe Gees were hoping for at least a top-four finish this year to match what they were able to achieve last season. It would have been a tough road to get to the top as the Gees came in seeded seventh.
Reading Time: 2 minutesLachance competes for the University of Ottawa’s varsity swimming team and practises two hours a day and nine times a week. A swimmer’s practice schedule is different than any other athlete’s training.
Reading Time: 3 minutesThe Fulcrum breaks down the top eights team that will compete in some thrilling and surely unforgettable hoops action at the CIS national championship.
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe Gees and the Rams were both nationally ranked teams coming in and both battled for every point during the match. The game came down to the final seconds, during which the Gees pulled away with one final basket to secure the win.
Reading Time: 2 minutesIt was made official on Feb. 19 that the two sisters are the best in the province after the Ontario University Athletics (OUA) recognized Myriam English as the most valuable player in the east division, and awarded first all-star team spots to both Myriam and Kelsie English and an all-star rookie team spot to Kaly Soro.
Reading Time: 4 minutes“I’m proud of this team,” said head coach Lionel Woods. “We get to go to nationals and learn from this loss and see if we can be tougher next weekend.”
Reading Time: 3 minutesJuggling academics, basketball, and fatherhood is not an easy task, but Thomas manages. He says it takes “a lot of focus and a lot of balance,” and that he has to “find a time and place for everything.
Reading Time: 3 minutesThe 18–2 Gee-Gees men’s basketball team represents the University of Ottawa in Canadian Interuniversity Sport (CIS) while the 22–1 Arizona Wildcats men’s basketball team represents the University of Arizona (Tucson, Ariz.) in the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I.
Reading Time: 3 minutesTheir recent weekend wins against Concordia mean that both the men’s and women’s hockey teams will be heading into their respective league’s playoffs in a couple weeks.
Reading Time: 2 minutesGees basketball forward Terry Thomas has cemented himself in University of Ottawa history by breaking the record for most points scored in a single game.
