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WOMEN’S HOOPS: ‘Birds top Heat to win eighth in row with Vikes next, Clan get...
VANCOUVER — Home, sweet home. That’s what War Memorial Gymnasium has been like for the UBC Thunderbirds women’s basketball team, and that’s just where head coach Deb Huband would like her team’s...
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Hoops journey nets Huband 400 wins and counting, but UBC boss still focused...
VANCOUVER — Two Saturday ago in Calgary, in the moments after the UBC Thunderbirds women’s basketball team rallied in the closing stages to beat the host Dinos 56-53 to keep alive its quest to win the...
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02.15.14 The Province’s B.C. university sports round-up: Basketball and...
The UBC Thunderbirds women’s basketball team is starting the playoffs on its home floor next weekend. Kris Young scored 30 points and grabbed 12 rebounds, both game highs, as the CIS No. 9-ranked...
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02.22.14 University notebook: Saturday brings trio of sudden-elim scenarios...
A jammed-packed weekend of Canada West playoff action dominated the university headlines. Here’s our look: MEN’S BASKETBALL The UBC Thunderbirds will play a third-and-deciding game in its best-of-three...
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2014 Ken Shields nominee: Courage to speak helps lift UFV’s Jasper Moedt to...
ABBOTSFORD — Listen to Jasper Moedt speak about his year in hell, and you come away with the realization that there is indeed an extraordinary way to describe the joys of ordinary. “You never know...
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Cascades ready, Fraser Valley the Pacific’s last ladies standing as CW Final...
ABBOTSFORD — All season long, it looked like the heavyweights from the Prairie Division were the class of the Canada West Conference. And so for B.C. teams in the Pacific Division, the mission was...
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03.09.14 Uni hoops: Gold day for Bros. Scrubb, UFV to Final 8, Clan make NCAA...
Here’s our rundown of the weekend that was in the university basketball world: CIS MEN’S BASKETBALL The Brothers Scrubb helped the Carleton Ravens win the Battle of Ottawa and remaikn atop the Canadian...
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UNI NOTES: Bronze Baby still elusive, but bronze still all-time best for UFV...
The Fraser Valley Cascades and Simon Fraser Clan women’s basketball teams each ended their seasons at respective national championship tournaments, and although both fell short of striking gold, the...
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UNI NOTES 09.07.14 edition: UBC men’s soccer leads Pac-D after 1-0 win Sunday...
The two-time defending CIS national men’s soccer champs have opened defence of their title with a perfect 2-0-0 start. Navid Mashinchi’s 80th-minute tally carried the preseason No. 1-ranked UBC...
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Uni notes 09.21.14: Soccer, x-country, field hockey, volleyball all on the...
In Canada West men’s soccer, it’s the UBC Thunderbirds and who else? The two-time defending CIS champs will continue to hold on to nation’s No. 1 ranking following its 3-0 win Friday at Thompson Rivers...
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10.05.14 Uni notes: UBC, TWU soccer programs maintain No. 1 national...
Laval Rouge et Or football, and the Carleton Ravens men’s basketball team have been Canadian Interuniversity Sport’s eastern heavyweights. If you look to the west, however, the most dominant CIS men’s...
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10.11.14 Uni Notes: Wow, UBC women’s volleyball swept by Edmonton expansionists
What a stunner! The UBC’s women’s volleyball team, just one season removed from winning six straight CIS national titles, is 0-2 to start the new Canada West season after losing on back-to-back nights...
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10.19.14 Uni notes: UBC-O Heat women’s volleyball team knocks off CIS No. 1 …...
The UBC Okanagan Heat may not be ranked No. 1, but they are playing like they are the best team in CIS women’s volleyball. For the second week in a row, the Kelowna crew, ranked No. 5, have knocked off...
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Uni Notes: TWU, UFV women bound for CIS soccer nats; UBC field hockey eyes...
The UBC Thunderbirds won’t get the chance to become the first three-peat champions in CIS men’s soccer since they themselves pulled the trick by winning four straight in the early 1990s. Langley’s...
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PODCAST: Varsity Letters 11.24.14 with Mission football, UFV sports and...
Here is the link to today’s episode of Varsity Letters, Canada’s only podcast dedicated solely to high school and university sports. Our guests today: 1. Mission Roadrunners senior varsity football...
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Uni notes: Weekend re-cap, plus getting ready for UBC vs. Trinity Western...
The UBC Thunderbirds have got their hockey and basketball teams on streaks that make them among the hottest teams in the Canada West’s Pioneer Division, but if the school’s two volleyball teams want to...
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UNI NOTES 02.09.15: UBC men’s hoops sees greatest turnaround in program history
VANCOUVER — When the calendar turned to 2015, the UBC Thunderbirds men’s basketball team was mired in ninth-place in the Canada West’s 11-team Pioneer Division standings. From the dire depths of...
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PODCAST: Varsity Letters on UFV athletics, national team basketball and UBC...
Varsity Letters touches ‘em all today. This week, we chat with new Fraser Valley Cascades athletic director Steve Tuckwood about big challenges ahead in the CIS for the Abbotsford school. Former...
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SHUBHREET SANDHU BASKETBALL, RUGBY SCHOOL: Rick Hansen (Abbotsford) FRESHMAN’S FUTURE: Fraser Valley HER VALEDICTORY ADDRESS My fellow graduates, academic adjudicators, family, and friends, I know the...
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RECRUITS LIST 2015: Carson’s Bill, Sentinel’s Hutchinson highlight the 782...
VANCOUVER — Over what is now nine straight years, we at The Province have wrapped up our annual coverage of high school and university sports in B.C. with what we simply call our Recruits List. It’s a...
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THE PROVINCE’S RECRUITS LIST 2015: Where the women are headed next season
The Province’s 2015 recruits list has arrived. Here’s the women’s list (below). Click here for the men’s list. Click here to read about our two highlighted boys and girls seniors. WOMEN BASKETBALL NCAA...
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THE PROVINCE’S RECRUITS LIST 2015: Where the men are headed next season
The Province’s 2015 recruits list has arrived. Here’s the men’s list (below). Click here for the women’s list. Click here to read about our two highlighted boys and girls seniors. MEN BASKETBALL NCAA...
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PODCAST: Football talk with UBC’s Nill, SFU’s Bates, plus UFV women’s soccer...
Varsity Letters is back on the air. We’re joined by the head coaches of B.C.’s two university football programs. Blake Nill of the UBC Thunderbirds and Kelly Bates of the Simon Fraser Clan each chat...
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9.27.15 Uni Notes: UBC rookie Pannu scores game winner, keeps soccer ‘Birds...
VANCOUVER — It was the veteran and then the rookie. Fifth-year senior striker Gagan Dosanjh scored in the ninth minute to give the CIS No. 4-ranked UBC Thunderbirds a lead that would hold until early...
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10.18.15 University notebook: UBC, Trinity battle for CW soccer title, plus...
VANCOUVER — The UBC Thunderbirds and Trinity Western Spartans are headed towards a potential one game, winner-take all match on the final day of the conference campaign for the Canada West women’s...
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11.01.15: The Province’s university notebook
VANCOUVER — Temperatures are expected to dip below the freezing mark later this week in Saskatoon, but it might take more than that to cool the progress of two of the nation’s top-ranked teams as the...
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Back from the farm, Sartori sowing bumper crop in her return to Fraser Valley...
ABBOTSFORD — It’s the same jersey she donned over the first three years of her CIS basketball career, but after figuring she was hanging it up for good following the 2013-14 season, Kayli Sartori wears...
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Howie’s Hamper 02.21.16 edition: The Province’s top university sports moments...
Here’s our look at the weekend’s top half-dozen university sports moments involving our local schools: 1. HEAD OF THE CLASS Two former members of The Province’s Head of the Class were front and centre...
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Howie’s University Hamper: Top five moments from the past weekend includes a...
Upsets at the buzzer, rallies on the road. As usual, we’re here to provide you with the top five moments involving our local university sports teams this weekend. 1. The most significant regular-season...
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Fraser Valley Cascades set to challenge CW’s best as top holdovers meld with...
ABBOTSFORD — Looking back in the rearview mirror, it’s safe to say that a pair of B.C.-based university men’s basketball programs experienced breakthrough seasons en route to inspired performances on...
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