While the rest of campus rested, it was down to business for several Thunderbirds teams in their playoffs and finals. Obvious highlight of the weekend: those swimming national banners, for the third-straight year.
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In the event held from February 21 through February 23, the T-Birds would come out on top in the 2019 U Sports Odlum Brown Swimming Championships.
Let's get a better sense of just how close the ’Birds rivals are and how hard UBC will need to race if they want to repeat as national champions once more.
Some teams flourished in playoffs. Some floundered. And other teams just kept on going with their regular season schedules.
With the weather taking a turn for the worst as it inevitably does, we wanted to know how athletes deal with the miserable weather and miserable feelings. Fun plot twist: they all happen to spend their varsity life on the water (they're rowers!).
For Wilkins, UBC was always in the plan. For Thormeyer, the story is a little different. That combination works in UBC's favour.
UBC's prairie and East Coast rivals are hungry for revenge as the best U Sports swimmers from across the country converge at the UBC Aquatics Centre this Friday and Saturday for the annual U Sports National Championships.
With the continued absence of Manroop Clair, the team needs to see a big series out of the team’s other top talent.
If they maintain their ranking by winning at least one match against the seventh-ranked Dinos this weekend, they’ll be playoff-bound.
A tweet on Sunday expressed dissatisfaction with the way that the women’s hockey game was at an earlier, less crowd-conducive time than the men’s, despite the women’s team’s higher conference standing.
Trinity and MacEwan are pitching for Canada West hockey programs for the 2020/21 season. Fraser Valley is pitching for volleyball.
While the city of Vancouver is no stranger to playoff disappointment, UBC knows this feeling much well as of late — it’s time to break that curse.
Sweeps for both volleyball programs. Sweeps for both hockey programs. Golden helmets for two of UBC women's hockey leaders. It was a wild weekend for the Thunderbirds.
With a spot in the Canada West quarterfinals on the line, the tension was palpable throughout the entire game. Even with home court on their side, the T-Birds would lose narrowly 67-64, ending their playoff hopes for this year.
Pinto is ineligible to participate in any capacity with sports signatory to the Canadian Anti-Doping Program, including training with UBC teammates.