A season of retooling ended on an upward trend as the men’s soccer Vikes won the final two matches of their Canada West (CanWest) season Oct. 30 and 31 at Centennial Stadium. UVic entered the season as two-time defending CanWest champions, but had lost 12 players including three-time Canadian Interuniversity Sport (CIS) All-Canadian Cole McFarlane.
For the first time since Tracy David became head coach, UVic’s women’s soccer team will miss out on post-season play this year. David became the Vikes head coach in 2002, and since then, her squads have qualified for eight straight Canada West (CanWest) playoffs, including one CanWest championship in 2008.
The cultural differences between Canada and the United States are many, but in the world of sports none are bigger than the places of hockey and football in our respective hearts.
Vikes fans came out in droves for the UVic men’s basketball team’s opening weekend on Oct. 22 and 23. The Vikes split the series with the Calgary Dinos with a 68-58 win on Friday, and a 83-74 loss the next day.
The UVic women’s basketball team posted impressive back-to-back wins against the Calgary Dinos on Oct. 22 and 23 in what was both their season and home opening weekend. The Vikes looked sharp, holding off an aggressive Dinos offence in a 73-57 victory on Friday night, and an 81-67 decision on Saturday.
When the B.C. Intercollegiate Hockey League (BCIHL) was established in 2005, it was done with the intention of building a high-calibre league where student athletes could demonstrate their on-ice prowess while receiving a higher education. Five years later and the UVic men’s hockey club remains a proud part of its successful progression.
My name is Max Sussman, and I am a part of a small minority in Canada: I am a baseball fan.
Last year, UVic’s women’s basketball team finished their season ranked fifth nationally after snapping Simon Fraser University’s 54-game and nearly two-year old win streak.
Last weekend saw the UVic women’s field hockey team square off against the Calgary Dinos as a two-game series crucial to both teams’ playoff hopes played out on the Vikes turf.
The Ian Stewart complex has received a facelift in the cardio department, welcoming new spin bikes into the weight room.
Vike David Spicer has been awarded the B.C. Rugby Union’s Canadian Direct Insurance Men’s Player of the Year for the 2009–10 season. Spicer lead the Vikes in scoring during the regular season. The team went all the way to the B.C. Provincial Championship. His final tally for the year came to 90 points, scoring in all four possible ways during the season. Spicer, with this year’s other award winners and B.C. Hall of Fame inductees will be recognized on Oct. 25 at the Firefighter’s Club Banquet and Conference Centre in Burnaby.
Vancouver’s Rogers Arena saw a change of pace on Oct. 6 when the boards, penalty boxes and ice were removed from the hockey arena and replaced with basketball hoops and wood flooring.
UVic’s women’s basketball team proved that they mean business this season, posting victories against Western Ontario and Laurentian, and a loss to Windsor, at the Panda’s Invitational Tournament in Edmonton last weekend. The Vikes preseason wins come just two weeks before the start of the Canada West (CanWest) regular season.
With only four games left in the Canada West (CanWest) women’s field hockey season, the Vikes are hoping to shine brightest when the games matter most. And it all starts with the final home games of the season on Oct. 16 and 17 against the tough University of Calgary Dinos.
The Vikes men’s rugby team held off a hard-charging comeback from cross-town rivals, the Victoria Castaway Wanderers, to pull out a razor-thin 32-31 victory on Saturday, Oct. 2.
The Vikes’ women’s soccer team put their undefeated record on the line versus two of the top teams in Canada on Oct. 2 and 3 at Centennial Stadium
The UVic men’s soccer team recorded their first victory of the season on Sunday, Oct. 3 with a thrilling 3-2 victory over the visiting University of Fraser Valley Cascades.
Three former Vikes tore up the field hockey turf at the 2010 Commonwealth Games in India this past week.
Though I’ve lived in Victoria for the last five years, one aspect of my life remains steadfastly tied to my hometown: I love the Edmonton Oilers.
Canada’s best rowers flooded Elk Lake from Sept. 24 to 26 for the National Rowing Championships (NRC), and the results have UVic coaches excited about the upcoming season.
