After their success in the 2016 baseball season, Thunderbirds Alex Webb, Curtis Taylor and Bruce Yari have received drafts by Major League Baseball (MLB). Taylor was the first of the three to receive his draft, followed closely by Webb and Yari.
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Our fleet totalled six boats. We were advancing on open water. Deep Cove was behind us. The sun was pitiless. Steep forested rock on both sides of this wide channel. This was Indian Arm, a fjord less than an hour’s drive from UBC.
This season, Primeau built a program with emphasis on injury prevention, along with making changes to the staffing on the team. “Instead of trying to fix athletes when they’re broken, we put therapy track-side and introduce warm-ups to the team that
Before receiving his appointment as T-Birds head coach, Symons served as the technical director and head coach of the North Shore Girl’s Soccer Club. There, he established the first Canadian franchise in the Women’s Premier Soccer League.
As she heads into her final months at UBC, Tera is finishing up her kinesiology degree, hopes to hit the pool again sometime soon for a bit of swimming, but most importantly, she’s looking towards the future with bright eyes.
Sunscreen? Check. Water bottles? Check. Absurd idea to go hiking in 33 degree heat? Check! We began the day at 7am to beat the campers and lake-goers heading to Alouette Lake, all hoping to make the day spent in the sweltering sun more manageable.
At the Championship Opening Round, UBC won 12-2 against Olivet Nazarene University before dropping 3-0 and 8-4 decisions to the top-ranked Georgia Gwinnett College Grizzlies from Georgia and Lindsey Wilson College Blue Raiders from Kentucky.
If you’ve been following the Thunderbird Baseball team, a name you will hear constantly is Bruce Yari. But few really know about him. The Waterloo, Ontario native has been playing baseball for as long as he can remember.
At the start of every semester, UBC Recreation offers free instructor-led courses to students and other members of the campus community. One of our resident columnist here at The Ubyssey decided to take on some of the classes and write about them.
For the members of the UBC tennis sports club, tennis is much more than just a game that they can play with their buddies on the Place Vanier courts after finals. They need to sacrifice their time and energy to play at a much more competitive level.
“I don’t think words can describe. It’s certainly not something that we talked about or set out to do, but I think it’s a definite tribute to how hard our guys work and the time that we put in,” said Rameses Langston, Thunderbirds head coach.
UBC entered the competition with a second place in NAIA West and played its first game on Friday against the third-seeded College of Idaho Yotes. The 'Birds then conceded a 3-0 to the top-seeded Lewis-Clark State Warriors on Saturday.
We finally got to a point where the hikers coming down all said it would take less than ten minutes for us to reach the top; we had stopped asking about time frame’s because everyone replied with contrasting times and it made us confused and tired.
After Theresa Hanson’s departure for SFU, the Thunderbirds started a year-long search for a new athletics director. That search has finally come to a conclusion with UBC announcing that Gilles Lepine has been named senior director of UBC Athletics.
Last week, the UBC eSports Club finished off the uLoL Campus series by defeating Robert Morris University in the finals and winning a $180,000 scholarship that came with the title. This victory makes them the best collegiate team in North America.