The team will get some time to recover, as they will play again in the Vancouver area next weekend. Their opponents will be the Trinity Western University Spartans in Langley. Those two games will also be the final regular season games for the team.
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Friday’s game was part of Courtside, the team's final feature event for the year. Many fans packed into the War Memorial Gym on a snow filled evening to watch the ’Birds. The team put on a near record breaking performance, beating the 'Wolves by a w
Saturday was the Thunderbirds’ last home game of the season and the last for Joe Antilla at Doug Mitchell Thunderbird Arena. The forward has been with the varsity club for the past five years. “He’s exactly what you look for in a hockey player.”
I replayed the shot in my head. I asked Paul, our video and tech person in the video booth above me, if in fact she had tipped it and he confirmed that it had been executed perfectly. I moved on. No more goals would pass.
After his departure from the Canucks, Butenschon returned to Germany and spent seven seasons playing for Adler Mannheim and the Thomas Sobo Ice Tigers. He also represented Germany at the 2010 WInter Olympic Games. Butenschon retired from profession
“It was just a hiccup. When you go 20-0 during a season, you kind of think you walk over everyone,” said Sandover-Best. “When you get complacent — and that happened to us at the start — we felt we were better than we were.”
Around 50 students made the trek by car or bus to get up Seymour and hike to that point beside Mystery Peak, with the intention to continue out into the snow-covered forest for one of their most popular events of the year: snow cave building, and an
“You should never feel like what you are going through is not as important as what others you know may have gone through,” said Terejko. “I felt silly seeking help for something I originally thought was the everyday stress of being a student athlete.
The T-Birds entered the game with high emotions coming off their Wightman Boot victory the previous week against the University of Victoria Vikes. The Wightman Boot is a trophy awarded annually to the victor of a match between the two historic and ri
Canada West leading scorer Maddison Penn led UBC with a total of 24 points, giving her an incredible 43 points for the weekend. Saturday’s game also saw the ’Birds make a total of eight blocks and score 22 points of Brandon turnovers. UBC won the clo
Friday’s game was one to remember for the ’Birds. They managed to score more than 30 points in each quarter and limited the Bobcat’s scoring. Brandon managed to get 21 points in the first quarter, but that momentum disappeared.
The ’Birds have now tied the school record in most wins in a single season. “With four games left … we got a good chance at setting a new record and setting a new bar for us as a program … and getting that first place, which has never been done.”
“It was around eight on a Friday night,” said Spriddle. “I’m at home with my parents, and I looked at them and just said, ‘I don’t think I’m gonna play football anymore. I can’t take four more years of this.’”
While some groups appeared to know each other very well, others did not and used it as a bonding activity. One team, who all dressed in plaid and called themselves “plaidinators,” said that they originally did not know each other very well and wer
Teams also tested their smarts, speed and team spirit with other activities like Riddles in the Dark, Storming Helms Deep, and Escape Shelob’s Lair. There was even Lord of the Rings music and a movie playing to put teams right into the Middle Earth