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UBC hockey: Birds fly east for key early-season series with Regina Cougars
Coming off a bye week with four conference games already under its collective belt, the UBC Thunderbirds men’s hockey team has an opportunity to make a statement this Friday and Saturday in Regina....
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Young, Hughes fill it up, help UBC sweep Alberta and join UFV at CW Final 4...
VANCOUVER — The UBC Thunderbirds may only have 10 healthy players on its roster, but it’s no stretch to say that they look deeper than they have at any point this season. And for a team headed to its...
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Birds stun No. 1 Cougars, take direct flight to CIS Final 8 women’s national...
The UBC Thunderbirds had hinted all season long they had a chance to be amongst the very best women’s basketball programs in the CIS. On Saturday, they proved it and added an exclamation mark to boot....
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Upsets galore on Friday’s CIS M/W hoops slate, but UBC, UVic and TWU all earn...
Here’s a look at the men’s and women’s basketball scores involving BC’s Pacific Division teams on Friday: CIS MEN’S BASKETBALL Canada West rebounding leader Brylle Kamen grabbed 16 boards, including 10...
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A blue-and-gold roll: UBC women’s hockey sweeps Bisosns, men stave off...
VANCOUVER — The UBC Thunderbirds were so starved for offence on Saturday night, that when they finally hit the mark, they didn’t know when to stop. Hosting its first-ever home playoff series, No....
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2.22.13 Uni notes: TWU-UBC stage epic men’s vball semi, also hoops and UBC...
Here’s our round up from a busy night in the Canada West playoffs. MEN’S VOLLEYBALL The two-time reigning CIS champion Trinity Western Spartans will have a chance for a three peat, while the UBC...
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Uni notes 3.01.13: Great day for UBC hoops, volleyball; tough one for TWU, UFV
VANCOUVER — With under three minutes remaining on the game clock at War Memorial Gymnasium on Friday, a Fraser Valley Cascades basketball team which had seemingly been thrown every possible piece of...
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UBC booster says dollars will be pulled if school axes men’s hockey from...
VANCOUVER — The ink was barely dry from Thursday’s story in The Province regarding the uncertain future of the UBC Thunderbirds men’s hockey program, when reaction came from a key booster regarding...
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Fresh off NAIA team title, UBC’s Bernard leads blue-and-gold at Canadian XC...
VANCOUVER — Maria Bernard fell in love with the UBC campus when, on her recruiting trip, she was introduced to the seemingly endless miles of running trails that make the Point Grey campus a...
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Crossroads weekend comes for hoop ‘Birds, sub-.500 mark rare territory for...
VANCOUVER — It’s been so long since the UBC Thunderbirds men’s basketball team has been in the kind of position it finds itself in this weekend. So long, in fact, that even its longtime head coach, now...
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Cross-Canada journey capped by seniors night for SFU Clan’s NCAA originals...
BURNABY — Back in the fall of 2009, the most successful women’s basketball program in the country was gearing up for a season in which it would win its fifth CIS national title in nine seasons. It was...
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CW playoff volleyball: Heat women make history, join TWU, UBC at Final 4; UBC...
VANCOUVER — B.C.’s best Canada West women’s volleyball teams are all gearing up for their biggest weekend of the season, and they’ll be looking to punch their tickets to the CIS nationals on provincial...
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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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Landslide victory: SFU Clan’s Erin Chambers rocks the ballot as GNAC coaches...
BURNABY — When asked for comment about his star senior guard-forward Erin Chambers being voted the Great Northwest Athletic Conference’s preseason women’s basketball Player of the Year by the league’s...
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U-NOTES 01.25.15: Tommy Time continues for UBC, Nixon pushes feats higher and...
VANCOUVER — The UBC Thunderbirds men’s basketball team is ticking just fine on Tommy Time. Fifth-year senior forward Tommy Nixon not only knocked on the door of UBC hoops history as the ‘Birds (9-5)...
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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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Rally-ready TWU Spartans come back again, top Pandas for first-ever CIS...
It’s not like it’s ancient history, but if you look back on the humble beginning of Trinity Western Spartans women’s volleyball, it certainly seems like a long time ago. Starting in the 1999-2000...
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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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Saturday night fever afflicts hoop ‘Birds bid to secure a weekend sweep of...
VANCOUVER — Basketball success in the CIS’ Canada West conference is almost always determined by what happens in the period of time between the end of the first game of a two-game weekend series on...
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