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Volume 7, Issue 2 • Printed in Canada by RR Donnelley UBC team captain Nathan Yu

Canadian Publications Mail Agreement #41473026 had a busy summer, playing for Canada at the World University Games and building houses in El Salvador on a Habitat for Scores, news & event info: Humanity mission. UBC’s Kevin Hanson, in gothunderbirds.ca background, coached the Canadian team. Message from the Athletic Director

s always, a great deal of thought went community. Thanks to the generosity of former UBC and into choosing the cover photo for this national rugby team standout Gerald McGavin, construction edition of Blue and Gold. We decided will soon begin on the new Gerald McGavin UBC Rugby on an action shot of fifth-year guard Centre. Located south of the Doug Mitchell Thunderbird Nathan Yu, taken during the gold medal Sports Centre, the new rugby centre will be home to UBC’s final of the World University Games men’s and women’s teams, complete with shower and locker last month in Shenzhen, China. Playing rooms for home and visiting teams, a new natural turf field underA UBC head coach Kevin Hanson, Nathan and his team and spectator seating area. mates defeated the defending champions from Serbia in There is also news concerning recent coaching appointments. pool play, but had to settle for silver medals after a re-match We are pleased to welcome former CIS women’s hockey MVP against Serbia in the final. UBC swimmer Tera van Beilen also and Toronto Varsity Blues assistant coach Jen Rawson as the stood out for Canada at Universiade, with silver medals in 50 Thunderbirds’ new head coach, as well as former assistant and 100 metre breaststroke. Our congratulations go out to swim coach Steve Price, who has returned to take over as Nathan, Kevin, Tera and the 19 other UBC athletes, coaches, head coach for both the UBC Thunderbirds and Pacific staff and alumni who represented our country and university Dolphins swim club. A familiar face is also returning to the in Shenzhen. men’s basketball program with the appointment of former The feature story in this edition focuses upon three former All-Canadian and Canada West MVP Casey Archibald as the Thunderbird athletes who have gone on to their own form team’s full-time assistant coach. Meanwhile Matt Lebourdais, of achievement in international sport. Tricia Smith, John a former Canada West All-star and All Canadian with UBC’s Mills and Tanya Foley have joined a growing list of UBC men’s team will also return to War Memorial Gym graduates who have played prominent roles within Canada’s this fall as an assistant coach. sport community and who are now at the top of their games Finally, I want you to know that there is another reason we as leaders in national and international sport administration settled on Nathan for the cover shot. Earlier this summer, and governance. By way of this feature, we salute their while balancing summer employment and hopes of making contributions and thank them for the extraordinary work Canada’s Universiade team, he joined nine other UBC they are doing in support of high performance sport. student-athletes in a Habitat for Humanity project in El Once again, there is news regarding sport infrastructure Salvador, one led by basketball alumnus Bill Humphries. development on campus. I am pleased to report that an There is an inspirational first-hand account written by one of outstanding new indoor tennis centre was completed just the participants on page 6. I’m confident that when you read weeks ago in TP. The facility features eight new indoor their story, and all the other news concerning our student- courts and is now open for use by all members of the campus athletes, you’ll again be reminded why they need and deserve all the support we can provide. Sincerely,

Bob Philip

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n 2008, after years of background preparation, athletes, not just here at UBC, but across Canada as well. UBC Athletics and Recreation recommended to the As a first step toward driving change, the presidents of all UBC Executive that UBC Vancouver should move CIS universities unanimously endorsed a proposal for new its competitive sports programs from Canadian governance arrangements and more active oversight of CIS. Interuniversity Sport (CIS) and the National I am pleased to report that at its June AGM, CIS voted to Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) accept this proposal. At the same time, I am disappointed to into the National Collegiate Athletics Association note that a recommendation by the presidents of five of the (INCAA) Division II. A Review Committee was subsequently larger universities in the Canada West conference urging CIS formed which undertook extensive public and campus to institute a two-tiered system of competition beginning in consultations over a two-year period, and received close to 2012-13 did not appear on the AGM agenda, and has yet to 500 written submissions, all of which revealed a tremendous be formally considered. diversity of opinion at all levels. This has not diminished the resolve of Canada West Last April, I announced that the University of British member universities to work together to invoke significant Columbia, after weighing options in a very thorough process, reforms within CIS - reforms that must include enhancing would for the time being both honour and seek to build upon scholarship opportunities to offer Canadian student our grand tradition of participation in CIS. Honour – because athletes the kind of competitive opportunities they need UBC has a proud history within CIS as both a founding and deserve. Scholarship reform requires more flexibility member and highly successful competitor. Build upon – in how scholarships can be awarded within teams, while because it must be said that the status quo is not acceptable. maintaining an overall cap. UBC’s goal has never been to In re-affirming our membership in CIS, we also committed launch an unproductive battle of the scholarships amongst to driving change. Athletic competition amongst institutions sister universities. that are similarly committed to athletic and academic To that end, with the collaboration of Canada West, in excellence, including attracting and retaining more top July I convened an inaugural meeting of a representative Canadian student-athletes, is of paramount importance, and committee of Western Canadian university presidents and I believe that a re-invigorated CIS is in UBC’s best interests, athletic directors to further explore the scholarship issue and and the best interests of our diverse community. other areas of potential change, as well as possible strategies I want to acknowledge the very principled stand that some for introducing formal reform proposals at the national people – and I include my colleague Bob Philip – have taken level. A subsequent meeting at the end of August was highly in favour of NCAA membership. I realize that my decision encouraging and productive. Additional meetings will be not to pursue membership in the NCAA Division II came as a held in the near future, after which I shall endeavour to disappointment for some loyal UBC Thunderbird supporters, update you on outcomes. especially after such a long process of consultation and Sincerely, deliberation. In bringing forward the NCAA option, however, I am convinced that Bob and all those who supported that view have succeeded in securing a better future for student Stephen J. Toope

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Forge Unique Bond By Diane Rizzardo

his past May, a group of ten UBC student ever-needed translator Ron as well as each house’s resident athletes, one basketball coach and UBC mason and four generations of family members we would basketball alumnus Bill Humphries met be working with side by side, we split up and got our hands at an unmarked bus stop in Vancouver dirty. We quickly learned to appreciate the tools we in North ready to embark on a journey to El America take for granted, seeing as the most sophisticated Salvador where they naively assumed that piece of equipment we had was a shovel, thus making even they would simply be building houses. I the simplest work tiring. We passed the time singing and was lucky enough of be one of the ten athletes that got the laughing especially when an impromptu wheelbarrow race T or soccer game would break out between the houses. Other opportunity to participate in this unique adventure. Before we even boarded our first flight we ran into a snag; where highlights included at the local freshwater pool, would we watch the Canucks playoff game? Thankfully having a cooking lesson with the local families, enjoying some of our tech savvy athletes were able to pull up the game the mangoes picked fresh from the trees by the children and on a computer so we could all crowd around and cheer on visiting a new Habitat community that was being built for our team, and in that moment our own special Habitat for flood victims. It felt good to play a bit of soccer with them Humanity team was born. and leave behind some supplies we had collected on their behalf. Once the basketball and volleyball players unfurled their lanky limbs from the tight cabin of the airplanes and we all Our last day came all too soon and although we parted ways planted our feet on firm El Salvadorian dirt, the heat and at the airport to embark on our own adventures, the legacy humidity hit us like a brick. It was an omen of what was of this inaugural trip is a newfound unity within the athletic to come, as our next two weeks were spent moving bricks, department. We can’t adequately express our gratitude painting, mixing cement, sanding floors, making rebar, towards Bill Humphries for envisioning and sponsoring the digging foundations and manually stomping sidewalks for entire project. Bill’s intention was to inspire a new generation five individual houses in immense heat. We were driven of giving, a goal he achieved with the added spin-off of down winding roads, through the bustling city and then out strengthening the “UBC Athletics Family” identity. We to the countryside, passing toddlers carrying machetes and came away with not only a new found knowledge of another men leading their cows to pasture before arriving in the city country and culture, but we also developed an appreciation of San Sebastian where we were staying. of our own UBC Athletics community, and have forged new bonds within it. ; The next morning, after a quick typical breakfast of fried plantains and pureed beans, we loaded the bus and ventured up to the houses we were going to be working on. We pulled up to a building lot where Grandma Paola was waiting to Diane Rizzardo is a fifth year Kinesiology student and a welcome us with an immense hug. After introductions to our member of the Thunderbirds women’s soccer team.

6 BLUE;GOLD fall 2011 Locker oR om Grid Birds a Contender in Early Season mid-fielderS ean Haley who scored a pair of goals his regular UBC football coach Shawn Olson appeared upbeat through season debut as a Thunderbird. Marco Visintin capitalized on the 2011 training camp, saying that the team was “much two penalty kick chances in the second half to wrap up a further ahead in terms of our planning compared to last year.” high-scoring opening weekend for the ‘Birds with a 4-2 win So far, his optimism appears to have been justified, as the over the Fraser Valley Cascades the following night. Thunderbirds travelled to Mosaic Stadium in Regina to kick The team returns All-Canadian defender Jason Gill and 2010 off the regular season on September 2 and defeated the CIS CIS Championship all-star Gagan Dosanjh, along with four No. 6 Regina Rams 21-10, snapping a four-game losing streak other Canada West all-stars as they try to capture the CIS title against the Rams that dated back to 2007. Returning in 2011. The team’s most notable newcomer, Kent O’Connor quarterback Billy Greene was brilliant in the opener. On the is a 24-year-old former member of Canada’s U-20 National Thunderbirds’ opening drive, the fourth-year Arts student team, and has playing experience with German and Danish found receiver Jordan Grieve in stride down the middle of the clubs as well as one appearance with Toronto FC. The field for a 63-yard touchdown completion. By the end of the Thunderbirds finished with an overall record of 8-3-3 in 2010, contest, Greene had completed 15 of 26 passes for 262 yards after losing 1-0 to the York Lions in the CIS championship and two touchdowns and also led UBC with 38 rushing yards. final. Grieve led UBC receivers with three catches for 109 yards. On the women’s side, the Thunderbirds opened their 2011 The Thunderbirds hit the road again the following week and season in Langley on September 10 with a 1-0 win over Trinity came within a hair’s breadth of a repeat performance against Western, the top ranked team in the Canada West pre-season the CIS no. 4 ranked Calgary Dinos. Greene logged another poll. The game marked the beginning of the second season for impressive performance by completing 29 of 43 passes for 255 UBC coach Mark Rogers. Forwards Janine Frazao and Rachel yards and three touchdowns, and rushing for 102 yards in a Sawer, who scored the lone goal for the CIS no. 6 ranked 30-25 loss. The September 17 home opener erased any Thunderbirds in the opener, will lead the charge up front in lingering doubts that the Thunderbirds are again a contender 2011 and have been a dangerous scoring duo since their rookie in CIS football as they defeated Alberta 40-30. campaigns. Frazao recorded eight goals last season, third-best Just under 100 players turned out for training camp in in the Canada West conference. UBC’s midfield will have to August, with at least 40 making their first appearance at UBC. deal with the departure of leaders Caitlin Davie and Carmen One area that won’t feature as many new faces is on offence, Lindsay, but fifth-year All-Stars Lisa Furutani and Natalie where the T-Birds have returned eight starters from 2010, Hirayama head up a young, talented group. including Greene and running back Dave Boyd. Captain Kelly Cook and Alisha Penev are the returning stars On the defensive side of the ball, there are a few significant on defence, which recorded seven shutouts in 19 regular season turnovers in personnel as well as a slight change in scheme and playoff games. Rookies Emily Wilson and Vancouver that the coaching staff addressed during camp. “There’s a lot Whitecaps FC prospect Ally Williamson will battle for a more transition on the defensive side of the ball,” said Olson starting job in goal. Williamson got the nod in the game in at the beginning of training. “We need to figure out who are Langley and made nine saves to record her first clean sheet in linebackers are after graduating a few key guys. We have some CIS play. returnees but also some younger guys who are ready to contribute. We’ll be shuffling the deck along the line as well.” Field Hockey Birds Aim for Return The 2011 season already has a historical footnote attached to to CIS Final it, at least for UBC Thunderbird fans, as this will be the first UBC may have more CIS national women’s field hockey titles year in which the Vanier Cup game will be played in to its credit than any other CIS member institution, but that Vancouver. The 47th Vanier Cup is slated for the newly doesn’t diminish the Thunderbirds drive to return to the renovated BC Place on Friday, November 25, followed by the national championship tournament, especially after the 99th Grey Cup on Sunday, November 27, thanks to a one-goal loss they suffered to the Toronto Varsity Blues in the partnership between CIS, the CFL, MRX and Associates, and 2010 national championship final. This year’s CIS the 2011 Grey Cup Festival. Championship tournament will be held in Calgary, but the road to get there begins in Edmonton against the Alberta Soccer Birds Undefeated Pandas on September 17 and resumes at home in back-to-back weekends at Wright Field. Hash Kanjee, now in his 20th in Opening Weekend season as UBC head coach, will guide his team in the Unanimously chosen as the top team in the pre-season Canada conference home opening series September 24 and 25 against West Athletics Men’s Soccer Coaches’ Poll, the Thunderbirds Calgary, followed by a two-game stand against perennial made it official that they will be the team to beat in the 2011 cross-strait rival Victoria Vikes October 1 and 2. campaign as they kicked off regular season play by shutting out the visiting Victoria Vikes, the number two pre-season UBC’s squad will be anchored by fifth-year players and 2010 ranked squad, by a score of 4-0 on September 9th at first team All Canadians Sarah MacAulay and Kirsten Bertsch Thunderbird Park. It was an auspicious start for freshman along with 2010 CIS Rookie of the Year Natalie Sourisseau. >8

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Silver medal finish for Hanson-coached team a Highlight for Canada at 26th Universiade Left, Thunderbird guard Nathan Yu in the gold medal final of the World University Games in The 26th World University Games (Universiade) wrapped up Shenzhen, China. Above, UBC head coach Kevin Hanson coached Canada to a silver medal finish. at the end of August in Shenzhen, China with Canada’s men’s basketball team coming ever so close to registering its first gold medal finish in 28 years after losing 68-55 to Serbia in the championship final. Consisting entirely of CIS athletes and to replace Nancy Wilson who stepped down in May. Jen coached by UBC’s own Kevin Hanson, the Canadian team joined the Varsity Blues coaching staff stunned the heavily favoured defending champions from in 2005 and has served as an assistant coach with her alma Serbia in the second game of pool play by handing them their mater since that time. A standout on the ice for Toronto from first loss in the last two World University Games. Led by UBC 1996 to 2001, she captained the Varsity Blues to the 2001 CIS point guard Nathan Yu and 2011 CIS Player of the Year Championship where she earned tournament MVP honours. Tyson Hinz (Carleton), Canada finished second in its pool and She was also recognized as an All-Canadian, OUA all-star, met Romania in the quarter final, winning 71-58. Next up for Academic All-Canadian, and the 2001 OUA Athlete of the Canada was a semi-final against the Lithuanians, who had just Year (BLG Awards finalist) during her time with the Blues. U ended the gold medal dreams of the USA entry, which of T captured three OUA titles (1996, ‘99, ‘01) during her consisted entirely of NCAA Division I players. In what was playing career. clearly the highlight of the tournament, Hanson’s scrappy CIS In conjunction with the Pacific Dolphins Swim Association, players advanced to the gold medal final with a convincing the UBC Athletic Department also recently announced that 83-68 win in front of a crowd of 10,000. “It’s been an Steve Price has been hired as the Head Coach for both the unbelievable journey,” said Hanson in the aftermath of the UBC Thunderbirds varsity team and Pacific Dolphins swim loss in the final. “These players have been just tremendous. club. The Vancouver native comes to UBC following a With only four days to work together before this tournament successful stint with the Edmonton Keyano Swim Club where started, I don’t think a lot of people back home thought we he had been head coach and director of swimming since 2007. would make it this far. This is a gutsy group of guys and I am It will be a homecoming of sorts for Price who returns to the extremely proud.” program where he served as senior coach from 1998 to 2006 Yu tied Hinz with a 14-point performance in the final and and is looking forward to preparing the swimmers for the run made a solid contribution for Canada throughout the up to the next year in London. tournament. Although disappointed with the eventual A familiar face is returning to the UBC Thunderbirds men’s outcome, he was clearly moved by the experience to play in basketball program with the announcement that former front of enormous crowds in a city less than an hour from his All-Canadian and Canada West MVP Casey Archibald has father’s birthplace. “I’m proud to have been given this been hired as the team’s full-time assistant coach. He replaces opportunity and I think our performance here speaks volumes Randy Nohr who stepped down in April to pursue a career in about CIS basketball,” said the 23-year-old Arts student. his family’s business. Archibald, who played five seasons with Shortly after his return from Shenzhen, he put in a career-best the Thunderbirds from 2002-03 until 2006-07, ranks second performance, shooting the lights out in a thrilling 98-85 all-time in UBC scoring behind J.D. Jackson with 3,024 overtime win in pre-season play over NCAA Division I Santa points. A two-time first-team All-Canadian and Canada West Clara Broncos, whose graduates include a chap from Victoria MVP (2006, ‘07), Archibald was honoured as a Canada West named . Nathan clicked for 38 points, three assists all-star in each of his five seasons at UBC - three times on the and two steals in a gruelling 37 minutes of play including the first-team (2004, ‘06, ‘07), once on the second (2005), and overtime frame, putting a cinch on his role as point guard in once on the rookie squad (2003). He was also the 2007 the upcoming campaign. winner of UBC’s Bobby Gaul Memorial Trophy, as the UBC swimmer Tera Van Beilen was another of the 17 current school’s top graduating male student-athlete. and former UBC Thunderbirds taking part in the games. A familiar face has also returned to take over the role as the Guided by newly appointed UBC head coach Steve Price, Tara full-time assistant coach with the UBC Thunderbirds men’s captured silver medals in 50 and 100 metre breaststroke. volleyball program. Former All-Canadian Matt Lebourdais Other UBC representatives who made the trek to China were has been hired by UBC head coach Richard Schick to take Shanice Marcelle, Lisa Barclay and Blair Bann (volleyball); over from recently departed Chris Densmore. Lebourdais Liz Gleadle, Inaki Gomez and Evan Dunfee (Athletics); Jason spent three seasons (2005-06, ‘06-07, ‘07-08) with the T-Birds Gill, Gagan Dosanjh, Janine Frazao and Jessica Briker after transferring from the College of the Rockies. He was (soccer); Heather MacLean and Hanna Pierse (swimming), named a first-team Canada West all-star and a second-team and David Sheman, Jack Wesche and Kylie Barros (golf). All-Canadian during his final tour of duty in 2007-08. During his UBC career, the T-Birds compiled a 38-18 record in Faces old and new join T-Bird conference play and went to a pair of CIS Championships. coaching staff After his UBC career, Lebourdais played professionally in UBC Athletics and Recreation recently announced the hiring for two seasons with Middlefart Volley Klub in the of Jen Rawson as head coach of the women’s hockey program Danish Elite League. >18

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Left, UBC A total of 29 members of the 1986 Thunderbirds football the eight national nominees representing each of the four CIS volleyball team, which is closing in on the 25th anniversary of their regional conferences were honoured in front of more than captain and BLG unforgettable Vanier Cup victory over Western Ontario, 1,000 BLG guests at The Centre in Vancouver for Performing Awards finalist were on hand at the September 17 football home opener Arts. Veteran sport broadcasters Vic Rauter and Lisa Bowes Shanice Marcelle as honoured guests of the UBC Athletic Department. CFL hosted the 19th annual proceedings, which subsequently acknowledges an Ironman Leo Groenewegen and head coach Frank Smith aired on the TSN network. The Canada West finalist for the admiring crowd were among those in attendance. The Vanier Cup itself made Jim Thompson Trophy (CIS Female Athlete of the Year) was with TSN’s Lisa a surprise visit to Thunderbird Stadium on the day. The Thunderbird volleyball team captain Shanice Marcelle, the Bowes. Right, Holy Grail of CIS football will be awarded to the 2011 CIS 2011 CIS Player of the Year who guided the Thunderbirds to CFL Ironman champions at BC Place Stadium November 25, marking the a fourth consecutive national championship last spring. Leo Groenewegen first time the Vanier Cup game will be played in Vancouver. It was back in 1994 at legendary UBC’s rowing coach Frank and former Dan Smith, Doug Mitchell and other active members of the Read’s funeral that a group of UBC alumni first discussed Thunderbirds Thunderbirds Football Association have a big week planned constructing a boathouse that would be a permanent home coach Frank Smith for Vancouver’s inaugural Vanier Cup game, beginning with for UBC rowing crews. But it wasn’t until September 30, joined 27 other a reunion and cocktail reception on November 23 for all 2006 that the vision finally became reality. It was on that members of the members of UBC’s past national championship teams, and any day – exactly five years ago – that the fundraising efforts of 1986 Vanier Cup other UBC football alumni, family and friends. The event will , Roy McIntosh, the late John Lecky and championship team be held at the BC Sports Hall of Fame in the newly renovated a number of other alumni resulted in UBC President Stephen at the home opener BC Place stadium. Advance tickets are recommended at Toope and Effie Leckie snipping the ceremonial ribbon to September 17. a cost of $50 and can be obtained from Lindsey Smith at officially open the John M. S. Lecky UBC Boathouse. A lot of [email protected]. The TFA is also proud to present good things have taken place as a result of the facility in the the Glen Suitor Football College Wenesday, November 23 at time since. In addition to enhanced opportunities for UBC Richmond Olympic Oval. The all-day clinic promises to be a students, partnerships with Rowing Canada and St. Georges superb introduction to CIS football for kids in grade 8-10 and High School, a community rowing program has introduced features many former CIS All Canadians and CFL luminaries the sport to many young athletes, one of whom entered UBC including , Geroy Simon UBC graduate Javier this fall. Nick Djordjevic, a Lord Byng High School graduate, Glatt. Then on game day, a pre-game tailgate party and has become the first UBC rower to have come up through post-game celebration are both available for a single ticket the community program and others are sure to follow. With price of $25.00. For further information or to volunteer for a modern facility, an abundance of boats, and a pair of the Thunderbird Football Association’s Vanier Cup events, seasoned head coaches in Mike Pearce and Craig Pond, UBC contact Lindsey Smith or visit www.ubcfootball.com. has increasingly become a destination for aspiring university and national team rowers from across the country. The recent The BLG Awards for the CIS Athletes of the Year also made addition of UBC grad and 2008 Olympic gold medalist Ben their Vancouver debut back in May, thanks to national law Rutledge to specialize in recruiting interested UBC students firm Borden Ladner Gervais (BLG) Awards founder and and coaching novice crews will serve to widen the field of UBC Law grad Doug Mitchell. A centrepiece of Canadian participants from among the existing UBC student body. Back Interuniversity Sport, the BLG Awards honour the CIS in the late 1990’s the Castlegar native was a first-year student female and male athletes of the year. The prestigious two- with limited prospects of making either UBC’s hockey or day affair began May 15 with a luncheon for athletes, guests golf team. Instead, he got into a boat for the first time, as did and media at the Fairmont Waterfront Hotel, followed by another freshman named Kyle Hamilton. Within a few short a basketball game between the eight awards finalists and years, both UBC rowers had been named to Canada’s >18 members of the BLG Awards founders. The following night,

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t’s no secret that Canada’s all-time list of Olympians and Olympic medalists is peppered with UBC graduates and former student-athletes – well over 200 at last count. What is less well known is how many have influenced the development of Olympic and international sport through various administrative and leadership pursuits. The late Harold Wright, for example, may never have worn the blue andI gold colors of UBC while a graduate student in the 1930’s, but he was president of the Canadian Olympic Association at a time when his son Lee Wright, a former UBC field hockey player, and daughter-in-law Thelma Wright, an outstanding Thunderbird track runner, were both competing for Canada. Bob Osborne, UBC’s first athletic director and former varsity and Olympic basketball star, was the first to make his marks as a builder and administrative leader, as one of the original founders of the CIAU (now CIS) and later on the executive of many provincial and national sports organizations, as well various organizations attached to the Olympics, British Empire and and the . When Father David Bauer arrived at UBC in 1960 as chaplain of St. Marks’ College, he introduced the concept of national teams to represent Canada internationally. Rather than using reigning national champions or teams of all-stars hastily assembled for brief periods, Bauer advocated what he called a “team in being,” that would train together for extended periods of time in preparation for the Olympic Games. The model that embodied his novel idea was Canada’s 1964 Olympic hockey team, which was based at UBC, coached by Bauer, and consisted almost entirely of UBC students. Bauer’s team manager and former UBC athletic director, Bob Hindmarch, subsequently carried the torch for UBC and for Canada in various ways too, including serving two terms as a vice-president of the Canadian Olympic Association. Dr. , an Olympic rowing gold medalist while still a UBC student in 1964, served as president of the Canadian Olympic Association; as a director of Sport Canada, and as CEO of the successful Own the Podium organization. The list goes on and grows endless if it were to include UBC grads who have coached, or served as mission staff, managers, tournament organizers, officials, sport medicine specialists and in other vital support roles. In this issue of Blue and Gold, UBC’s Department of Athletics and Recreation pays tribute to all its administrative all-stars – those who have loaned time and expertise to Canadian athletes and a wide range of national and international sport organizations – and in the pages that follow, we introduce you to three UBC graduates whose extraordinary endeavours are contributing richly to the culture of sport both at home and in many parts of the world.

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fall 2011 BLUE;GOLD 11 ubc’s ringleaders Tricia Smith he has taken over the Vancouver house her Women’s Commission of the International Rowing Federation parents built on Tolmie Street overlooking (FISA). She later became chair of the commission and was elected the beaches of Spanish Banks. The hedges to the executive of FISA. The work of the Women’s Commission have grown tall over the years, but the home continues to focus largely on development efforts in nations still affords to the next generation the same where opportunities for women rowers are either limited or non- splendorous view of the north-shore mountains. existent. To that end, some years ago she asked FISA’s Egyptian Growing up in such a setting with adventure representative – “a very nice man” - why there were no women Sloving parents, it was only natural that Tricia Smith and her competing for his country. He responded by insisting that there four siblings assumed ultra-active outdoor lifestyles. Skiing, simply weren’t any women interested in rowing in Egypt. Tricia water skiing, swimming, cycling and going to the beach were knew better, and assembled a list of names of Egyptian women all a big part of family life for the children of UBC graduates rowers and presented it to him. “He had no excuse but to support Marshal Smith and Patricia MacIntosh, both accomplished them,” she says. “And now he is glad he did. He makes a point of athletes – Marshal as a star rugby player at UBC and Pat as a updating me on their progress, about how eager they are, and how member of the famed Vancouver Eilers basketball team. hard they’re working.” A respected leader within Canada’s sport community, Tricia is Following retirement, she was also given an opportunity and occasionally asked what has motivated her to serve a bevy of volunteered her time to become an arbitrator for sport, helping local, national and international sport organizations following resolve disputes brought forth by Canadian athletes to their a rowing career that spanned 13 seasons and four Olympic respective national sport organizations. That experience later Games. Not surprisingly, she says it all started back in those resulted in her becoming one of the elected members of the halcyon days as a member of a large, close-knit and active International Council of Arbitration for Sport (ICAS), which family. In all likelihood, the lessons didn’t appreciably differ oversees the Court of Arbitration, a body created in 1984 by the from those passed on by other values-driven parents who International Olympic Committee to hear international sport grew up in the depression – “don’t be wasteful; play fair; work related disputes and disputes at Olympic Games. While attending together; you can do anything you want if you put your mind her first ICAS meeting in Iran, she asked to meet some of their to it; don’t give up; if something is worth doing, it’s worth doing female athletes. As a result of that contact, Iran joined FISA and well” – all of which remain enduring maxims in her personal received FISA support to develop rowing programs, on the strict and professional life. But there was one other important condition that equal opportunities were afforded to women as to principle she acquired entirely on her own. men. Showing only a hint of pride, she explains that, eight years later, two Iranian scullers - one male and one female - took part in Never shy away from asking the simple question, “why?” the 2008 Olympic Games. “When I was in my 20’s, I remember hearing my dad tell a There have been numerous other organizations to which she boyfriend how, when I was little, if I was being punished for has loaned her skill and support, including the UBC Alumni anything, he and my mother always had to explain their logic Association for which she served a term as president, the Canadian and rationale. Otherwise I wouldn’t accept it. I always had to Olympic Association for which she currently serves as a vice- know why, and I was always impressed they took the time to president, and certainly there have been other rewarding moments. explain their logic.” She has been inducted into the UBC, Canadian Olympic and BC The importance of seeking the logic became increasingly Sports Halls of Fame, and her university conferred a honourary important as her athletic career progressed. While still in high doctorate upon her in 2000 in recognition of her achievements school, she began rowing with the UBC-Vancouver Rowing in sport and law and her advocacy of women in sport, the same Club team. Just two years later, she qualified to compete in the rationale for which she was recently appointed a Member of the 1976 Montreal Olympic Games in coxless pairs. She went on to . She was asked to serve as Canada’s Chef de be named to three subsequent Olympic teams, capturing a silver Mission at the 2007 Pan American Games, and as co-mayor of the medal in 1984, as well as seven world championship medals Vancouver athlete village at the 2010 Olympic Winter Games along and a gold medal at the 1986 Commonwealth Games. Her with fellow UBC grad and long-time friend Rick Hansen. strength as an oarswoman and bred-in-the-bone intelligence Modest to the core, she’s reluctant to discuss accolades of her past positioned her to ask questions of those in charge about how life, but eager to express the joy of the shared experiences along the team was selected, how decisions were made, about how the way, and the extent to which she owes so much of it to the and where the team travelled, as well as consulting other lessons she learned growing up in the house on Tolmie. It is those athletes and creating a structure to communicate shared needs lessons and a few others that she freely passes on to other women for changes, or conversely, to convey positive feedback about and young people anxious to follow her lead - “it’s not work if we things that worked well. The probing but respectful manner do it together; keep your eyes on the big picture; don’t sweat the in which she represented her team mates didn’t go unnoticed small stuff; be creative and have fun; if she wins, we all win; don’t by members of international rowing’s upper echelon, setting be angry about things you can’t change,” and the most important off a series of varying leadership opportunities, particularly in one of all… matters concerning women in sport. “Ask why, and then make a difference.” After retiring from competition and graduating from the UBC Faculty of Law, she was invited to become a member of the

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The Power of “Why?”

fall 2011 BLUE;GOLD 13 coming full circle

1410 BLUE;GOLD fall 2011 ubc’s ringleaders John Mills f all the experiences that shaped his when Calgary lost to Vancouver, rather than sulk, CODA sport leadership career, John Mills decided they would become the training centre for Canada’s says there are two that stand out. 2010 winter athletes.” For the next eight years he directed the The first was a particularly formative development of facilities and programs that not only fulfilled one as a first grader at Vancouver the sport and recreation aspirations of a community still College. The principal brought in invigorated by the 1988 Calgary Games, but also the unique two mini- and announced needs of many of Canada’s 2010 athletes. During that period Othat anyone who could complete his arithmetic exercise before the foundation was established for the expansion of Canada the recess could leave early and take one of the basketballs Olympic Park, which will soon serve as a comprehensive event down to the gym. Within minutes – an eternity to an anxious and training site for Canada’s winter sport athletes in hockey, six-year-old – he was trying to discover how to hurl a small figure skating, sliding, snowboard, alpine, freestyle, and basketball into a ten-foot hoop. “It’s such a clear memory Nordic skiing. for me,” he says, reflecting on the moment from a chair in a During the early years in Calgary, he also served as an meeting room overlooking what used to be the 2010 speed- executive member of the 2010 Vancouver Bid Corporation. skating venue at the Richmond Olympic Oval. “From that Following Canada’s outstanding medal performance in Torino point on, I was a basketball player.” in 2006, his thoughts began to drift back to his home town and Fast forward a few years to 1971. He was riding back from the spectacle that would unfold four years hence. By the time a late-season series in Lethbridge with his UBC Thunderbird he returned to the west coast shortly after the 2006 Torino team mates and chatting with head coach, Peter Mullins. Up Games, some of the practises that CODA had put in place were to that time, he hadn’t been a starter, nor was he particularly just beginning to pay dividends on the podium. It occurred to optimistic about his basketball career. Still, he was thrilled him that the same things could be achieved back home. “I had to be playing for the Thunderbirds. Mullins asked, “How Team/yearthe idea that ofI wanted eligibili to be involvedty: Alpine in the legacy skiing/4 of 2010 and good do you want to be?” Understanding the importance Faculthe tOval,y: science in particular, ( Cintriguedell Biology me.” After a atwo-yearnd G enetics)stint of the question, he paused a moment, and said: “I think I as an Associate Deputy Minister with the Province of BC, he can probably contribute coming off the bench.” Mullins jumped at the City of Richmond’s offer to become the General reply was blunt: “If that’s all you want to be, then I don’t Manager of its 2010 legacy jewel. want you back next year.” Momentarily stunned, the lanky Today, the Richmond Olympic Oval is a state-of-the-Art 20-year-old listened as Mullins made his case for what he multi-functional complex that welcomes over fifteen hundred believed his sophomore forward could achieve with a slight members and visitors a day. And it is there that he continues shift in attitude. “He gave me confidence that I could be much to exercise his philosophy about how serving the needs better than I thought I could be, and also the opportunities to of the community as well as those of elite athletes are not improve. The next season I was a starter on the 1972 national mutually exclusive objectives. If anything, he says they are championship team and that summer I played for Canada.” complementary, and he sums up the two-pronged approach Inspired by what his coach had done for his skill and with a simple catchy phrase: “calories burned; medals earned.” confidence, John made up his mind that he wanted to follow The enthusiasm for the Oval’s growing list of programs and in his footsteps and endeavour to do the same for other young off-the-charts success is visible in his expression and voice, basketball players. In the back of his mind, he even hoped that particularly when he talks about initiatives like the Volleyball he could coach for UBC someday. The closest he came was Centre of Excellence under former UBC All Canadian Joanne immediately after graduation when he signed on as a teacher Ross, or conversely, programs aimed at teaching fundamental and basketball coach at Vancouver College. Five years later physical literacy to children aged two to six. Equally evident is he left the field of play to take over as Executive Director of the confidence instilled in him by Peter Mullins as he describes Basketball BC, where he hoped to change the landscape of the the challenges that lay ahead in his new volunteer role as Chair game in BC and “paint on a bigger canvas.” Little did he know of the Canada Basketball Board of Directors – that of focusing that the canvas would grow exponentially as the years went by. Canada’s broad enthusiasm for the game towards outstanding international achievement. “Our goal is to become the team After a prolonged period of cutting his leadership teeth at every other country hates to play and a podium threat at the Basketball BC, he was offered what was arguably the top Olympics and World Championships.” job in provincial amateur sport, as Executive Director and President of Sport BC. Inspired with an idea to increase access And though the conversation with the iconic Peter Mullins to sport opportunities to financially disadvantaged children, his is many miles behind him now, and the formative day of highlight achievement was laying the foundations of KidSport, discovery in the Vancouver College gym even further, the including courting deep pocketed supporters to increase the connections between then and now remain relevant, and there organization’s endowment and help spread the movement to have been some memorable stops on what surely has been an communities across Canada. intriguing journey. In 1998 he was approached by the Calgary Olympic “I’d like to think I had a plan, but I really didn’t,” he says Development Association (CODA, now WinSport Canada) gazing reflectively out at the ice rinks of the Oval and the to move to Calgary and become president. Initially reluctant hardwood courts beyond. “I had a set of values and ideas that to leave Vancouver, he was won over by their persistence and I took from my family, from UBC and Vancouver College, but their commitment to athletes. “I joined CODA in the middle of you can’t plan a career like this. The field is so narrow. There the domestic bid to host the 2010 Games,” he explains, “but just aren’t that many jobs and I’ve had all the good ones.”

fall 2011 BLUE;GOLD 15 ubc’s ringleaders Tanya Foley ike many exhausted Vancouver Organizing Kindled by a deep passion for the game and an inordinate skill for Committee (VANOC) staff members, Tanya organization, she set out on a career path that she couldn’t have Foley took some time off in the wake of the imagined, let alone planned, but one that nonetheless escalated phenomenally successful 2010 Winter Games ever upward to international hockey’s highest kingdom. The irony to recharge her batteries and give thought of that eventuality is that, while many of hockey’s prominent male to what her next career step would be. As executives started out as highly encouraged youngsters playing in Assistant Manager of Sport for Hockey, she atom leagues in Canadian prairie towns, it was precisely the absence Lhad helped lead the organization of what the International Ice of the same opportunities for girls in those same towns that sparked Hockey Federation (IIHF) described as “the most successful ice her conviction and the success that followed. hockey Olympics ever.” So whatever came next for the former “Unfortunately, for every story you hear about girls being able to Thunderbirds hockey player had to be something pretty special. change their names or cut their hair and somehow be able to play on Having met and worked with most of the top people in the IIHF the boys’ teams, there are many more like me who were not permitted in the time leading up to the Games, she had the right experience to play. I think this inability to play, followed by successfully finding and connections to further advance her career, but also knew that great people to start a women’s hockey league with while I was job openings in international sport were few and far between. still in high school, was the first of many lessons learned that with “After a few discussions with people, and just a ‘why not’ kind of determination, a strong desire, and a little luck with finding the right thought, I sent an email to (IIHF Sport Director) Dave Fitzpatrick, people who are willing to give your idea a chance, you really can just to let him know if anything came up, I would love to talk to move mountains.” him about it” says Tanya. “They had advertised a position that In 1998, she enrolled in Human Kinetics (now Kinesiology) at wasn’t exactly what I was interested in, but it was worth at least UBC and became a goaltender for UBC’s fledgling women’s hockey seeing what the long term plans were, so we set up a time for a team. She also held down a number of volunteer jobs in support phone call. After the initial hellos, Dave started the conversation of emerging women’s hockey organizations, and squeezed in two with ‘now this conversation is going to take a bit of a different internships with the Vancouver Canucks, and another with the direction than you are expecting,’ and he proceeded to share with UBC Department of Athletics and Recreation that resulted in a me the events that had transpired since IOC President, Dr. Jacques multi-faceted five-year period of employment. There, she fine-tuned Rogge’s comments during the Vancouver Games about women’s skills in HR and office management, marketing, systems, processes, hockey possibly being taken out of the Olympic program if it information technology and finance. Her well-rounded experience didn’t become more of a globally competitive game.” caught the attention of Cathy Priestner-Allinger, VANOC’s Executive What Fitzpatrick described over the phone that day from the Vice President for Sport and Games Operations, who hired her to IIHF headquarters in Switzerland was that the IOC had issued a juggle a similarly diverse array of tasks, including a key support role direct challenge to the IIHF to find ways to widen the competitive in the first year of the Own the Podium program. Two and a half landscape of the women’s game beyond a handful of countries led years later, Priestner-Allinger began shifting staff into sport-specific by Canada and the USA. He also explained that the federation roles in preparation for Games operations, including giving her was now ready to take up the gauntlet, including creating a new trusted assistant the nod to join the team that would organize and position for a full-time person to manage international women’s stage some of the 2010 Games’ most unforgettable events. hockey. “To this day, I still am a bit amazed that out of all the people in “When he asked if I would be interested, honestly, I almost Canada, a country where everyone is a hockey expert, that I was dropped the phone but managed to recover in time to say I would hired for that role! I had a tremendous team with me who were definitely be interested in hearing more about it as the plans responsible for organizing the men’s, women’s and sledge hockey became solidified. Over the next few weeks, the IIHF worked with tournaments that also included (former UBC women’s hockey coach) some of the key nations involved to outline what was needed and Dave Newson.” I was formally offered the job and began making preparations to Asked to describe her aspirations in her current role with the IIHF, move to Switzerland.” she bluntly explains: “to make it possible for girls who want to play In November of last year, Tanya, her husband Clint and their hockey to be able to, and to be able to dream of wearing an Olympic two dogs made their way to Zurich where she took up her new gold medal.” The process, she admits, will take time, and that a position on December 1 as the IIHF Women’s Program Manager. 10-year time frame is more realistic than looking ahead to the 2014 And although the doors of the IIHF offices opened wide to Games. Although the recent world championships saw improvement welcome her on that day, the doors she encountered as a kid among certain Eastern European countries, she points to cultural growing up in Edmonton – those between the players’ box and barriers that stubbornly remain in those countries and elsewhere. Still, the ice surface in the city’s community hockey rinks - did not. she’s optimistic. The “no girls allowed” rule that frustrated parents and broke “Sport has the power to change, and by finding new ways to make daughters’ hearts was particularly discouraging for a hockey-crazy the sport of women’s hockey more visible and known, while helping eight-year-old whose parents were season-ticket holders in a city educate the current players on how to be the best elite players that witnessed the best of the Gretzky era. Not for long, as it possible, it will start a snowball effect of having great hockey, with turned out. more and more people watching and enjoying a great sport.” She bided her time playing ringette until she was about 15 Editor’s note: At press time, Tanya and Clint had just welcomed their years old when she and a couple of friends started a four-team firstborn, Joshua Clinton Foley, into their world. They aren’t yet girls’ hockey league that grew to eight teams within three years. certain if he’ll shoot right or left. ;

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Team/year of eligibility: basketball/5 Faculty: Education (Human Kinetics)

Taking on an Icy Challenge

fall 2011 BLUE;GOLD 1713 and the Canadian national team. She became the Vikes’ head coach a year later. Her coaching career is second to none in CIS block annals. In 21 campaigns at the helm at UVic, she led her troops News ; notes from the big block club to 14 Canada West titles and eight CIS banners – an all-time record in women’s basketball – while compiling a spectacular 320-50 overall record. Eight and struck precious metal several times in international competition, including their summit performance in Beijing at It wasn’t just any ordinary pitching change for Vancouver the 2008 Olympics. Canadians manager John Schneider on Thursday, June 30 as he summoned the bullpen. Leading up to Vancouver’s 2-1 Meanwhile, and in a similar vein, construction recently began win over Everett at Scotiabank Field, RHP Brandon Kaye on the Gerald McGavin UBC Rugby Centre, thanks to an became the first UBC Thunderbird to pitch for the Canadians $800,000 dollar gift from the former UBC rugby standout and throwing a scoreless frame in the victory. UBC alum Eric Brown national team member. Located south of the Doug Mitchell then struck out two of the three hitters he faced in the 8th Thunderbird Sports Centre, the new facility will be home inning. These appearances marked the first time in Vancouver to UBC’s men’s and women’s teams, complete with shower Canadians Class-A history that a UBC player has pitched for and locker rooms for home and visiting teams, a new natural the hometown C’s, who went on to win the turf field and spectator seating area. Pending a potential this year. Both Brown and Kaye graduated from the UBC partnership with the BC , the addition of training program following the 2011 spring varsity season where they and sport medicine facilities may follow in the near future. were standout starters. Brown was selected by the Toronto Blue Further plans are being contemplated that would eventually Jays in the 50th round of the 2011 MLB Draft. Kaye was signed see the addition of a social space as well as offices and meeting by the Jays to a non-drafted free agent contract right after the rooms. Anyone interested in seeking further information draft. He was previously selected in the 2009 MLB Draft by the about the new facility and future plans are encouraged to Jays but chose to pitch at UBC for two seasons before beginning contact Steve Tuckwood, UBC Athletics Associate Director, his pro career. ; Development, at 604-822-1972 or [email protected]. Staying with rugby, on the evening of March 21, one of the sport’s all-time greats, Buzz Moore, walked off the playing field for good. Just a few weeks later, on a night that coincided remarkably with what would have been his 90th birthday, the UBC Athletic Department staged the 90th annual Locker oR om Big Block Athletic Awards banquet, and dedicated the evening to his memory. Buzz would no doubt be greatly enthused to McCabe wins bronze at World Championships know that 2006 graduate Tyler Hotson is currently playing UBC Thunderbird standout Martha McCabe won the bronze for Canada at the Rugby World Cup in New Zealand. UBC medal in the women’s 200-metre breaststroke at the world coach Spence McTavish, who staged a well-organized tribute swimming championships held in late July in Shanghai. “I’m to Buzz at the University Golf Club shortly after his passing, excited and ecstatic,” said the 21-year-old McCabe, who also made the journey south to take in the action and to meet finished seventh at the 2009 worlds in Rome. “It’s a pretty with officials from the University of Wellington and University important result one year out of the Olympics but I know this of Auckland in hopes of expanding existing UBC student event will only get faster so I can’t step back by any means.” exchange relationships to include rugby players. McCabe wrapped up her fourth year at UBC by helping lead the Rick Noonan is very much alive and well and living la dolce T-Birds to the 2011 Canada West swimming title and a second vita among the vines on the Naramata Bench, however, the place result at the CIS Championship. She is the two-time recent Father Bauer Golf Tournament was the 25th edition he defending champion in the 200m breaststroke at the national has organized and, sadly for many, the last. Rick has passed meet. Former UBC T-Bird Annamay Pierse, who is the world the alumni torch to Mike Ikeda, who has pledged to take over record holder in the 200m breaststroke, finished eighth. organizing a UBC hockey alumni tournament, but under a different name. Meanwhile, former players who knew Father De Wit named to U23 Worlds and Pan Am David Bauer well elected to salute the work Rick has done by Games team presenting him and wife Wendy with an all-expense paid trip UBC Thunderbirds varsity stroke Ben De Wit is showing to the emerald isle that marks his heritage. international potential after being selected to compete at the Legendary UBC soccer head coach and athletics administrator 2011 World Rowing Under-23 Championships in the men’s Dick Mosher was also honoured recently, as a co-recipient of pair event last July in Amsterdam. De Wit is one of only three the Jean-Marie de Koninck Coaching Excellence Award at the Canadian schooled heavyweight athletes to make the team, CIS Awards Banquet in Victoria, along with UBC grad and with the rest all from US Ivy league institutions. He is also the basketball coaching legend Kathy Shields. Dick began as head first UBC athlete to develop to the national program through coach of the T-Bird men’s squad in 1986. During his nine- the recent partnership with Rowing Canada, which is helping year stint at the helm of UBC’s men’s team, his side lost only identify and develop talent through the UBC varsity team. seven games and kept an unbelievable 86-7-13 overall record “We knew Ben would have a great shot at making the team this (.873) en route to six CIS national championships. In 1995, year,” said UBC men’s rowing coach Mike Pearce. “His he turned his attention to the UBC women’s team and led the improvement curve was very steep all year and it’s been Thunderbirds to three national championships before retiring exciting to see him develop. He has just been selected to the from coaching in 2009. Kathy Shields joined the University PAM AM team, but we are looking forward to getting him of Victoria women’s basketball program as an assistant coach back to race for us at the Canadian University Rowing in 1977-78 following a successful playing career with UBC Championships in November.” ;

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Football Men’s Basketball Women’s Hockey 9/17/2011 Alberta 2:00 PM ts 2011 Thunderbird Classic 10/14/2011 lethbridge 7:00 PM dMTSC 9/24/2011 Manitoba 2:00 PM ts 10/21/2011 laurier 7:00 PM WMG 10/15/2011 lethbridge 7:00 PM dMTSC 10/15/2011 regina 2:00 PM ts 10/22/2011 Concordia 7:00 PM WMG 10/28/2011 regina 7:00 PM dMTSC 10/29/2011 Calgary 2:00 PM ts 10/23/2011 Memorial 4:00 PM WMG 10/29/2011 regina 7:00 PM dMTSC 11/5/2011 Canada West Semi-Final 11/4/2011 Mountaineers 7:00 PM WMG 11/11/2011 Alberta 7:00 PM dMTSC 11/12/2011 Canada West Final 11/11/2011 Brandon 8:00 PM WMG 11/12/2011 Alberta 7:00 PM dMTSC 11/19/2011 Mitchell Bowl @ Canada West finalist 11/12/2011 regina 7:00 PM WMG 11/25/2011 saskatchewan 7:00 PM dMTSC 11/25/2011 Vanier Cup BC Place (Vancouver, BC) 11/17/2011 trinity Western 8:00 PM WMG 11/25/2011 saskatchewan 7:00 PM dMTSC 11/19/2011 trinity Western 7:00 PM WMG 1/20/2012 Calgary 7:00 PM dMTSC 1/6/2012 Alberta 8:00 PM WMG 1/21/2012 Calgary 7:00 PM dMTSC Men’s Soccer 1/7/2012 saskatchewan 7:00 PM WMG 2/3/2012 Manitoba 7:00 PM dMTSC 9/9/2011 Victoria 7:15 PM tP 1/27/2012 UBC-O 8:00 PM WMG 2/4/2012 Manitoba 7:00 PM dMTSC 9/10/2011 fraser Valley 7:15 PM tP 1/28/2012 UBC-O 7:00 PM WMG 2/17-19/2012 Canada West Semi-Finals 9/30/2011 lethbridge 7:15 PM tP 2/10/2012 Victoria 8:00 PM WMG 2/24-26/2012 Canada West Finals 10/1/2011 Calgary 7:15 PM tP 2/23-24/2012 Canada West Quarter-finals 3/8-11/2012 CIS Championships 10/7/2011 trinity Western 7:15 PM tP 3/2-3/2012 Canada West Final Four 10/21/2011 Alberta 7:15 PM tP 3/9-11/2012 CIS Championships Metro Centre (Halifax, NS) 10/22/2011 saskatchewan 7:15 PM tP Men’s Volleyball 11/4-6/2011 Canada West Championships 10/22/2011 Alumni Game tBD WMG 11/10-13/2011 CIS Championships Victoria, BC Women’s Basketball 11/18/2011 saskatchewan 8:00 PM WMG 10/28/2011 UBCO 7:00 PM WMG 11/19/2011 saskatchewan 2:00 PM WMG 10/29/2011 lakehead 7:00 PM WMG 11/25/2011 Calgary 8:00 PM WMG Women’s Soccer 11/11/2011 Brandon 6:00 PM WMG 11/26/2011 Calgary 7:00 PM WMG 9/16/2011 regina 5:00 PM tP 11/12/2011 regina 5:00 PM WMG 1/13/2012 thompson Rivers 8:00 PM WMG 9/17/2011 Manitoba 5:00 PM tP 11/17/2011 trinity Western 6:00 PM WMG 1/14/2012 thompson Rivers 7:00 PM WMG 0/7/2011 fraser Valley 5:00 PM tP 11/19/2011 trinity Western 5:00 PM WMG 1/20/2012 Manitoba 8:00 PM WMG 10/8/2011 Victoria 5:00 PM tP 1/6/2012 Alberta 6:00 PM WMG 1/21/2012 Manitoba 7:00 PM WMG 10/15/2011 trinity Western 5:00 PM tP 1/7/2012 saskatchewan 5:00 PM WMG 2/3/2012 Brandon 8:00 PM WMG 10/21/2011 Alberta 5:00 PM tP 1/27/2012 UBC-O 6:00 PM WMG 2/4/2012 Brandon 7:00 PM WMG 10/22/2011 saskatchewan 5:00 PM tP 1/28/2012 UBC-O 5:00 PM WMG 2/16-19/2012 Canada West Quarter-Finals 11/4-6/2011 Canada West Championships 2/23-26/2012 Canada West Quarter-finals 2/24-25/2012 Canada West Final Four 11/10-13/2011 CIS Championships Montreal, QC (McGill) 3/2-3/2012 Canada West Final Four 3/2-4/2012 CIS Championships Kingston, ON 3/9-11/2012 CIS Championships Opening Round 3/16-18/2012 final 8 Calgary Women’s Field Hockey Women’s Volleyball 9/24/2011 Calgary 1:00 PM WF 11/18/2011 saskatchewan 6:00 PM WMG 9/25/2011 Calgary 1:00 PM WF Men’s Hockey 11/19/2011 saskatchewan 12:00 PM WMG 10/1/2011 Victoria 1:00 PM WF 10/7/2011 Calgary 7:00 PM dMTSC 11/25/2011 Calgary 6:00 PM WMG 10/2/2011 Victoria 1:00 PM WF 10/8/2011 Calgary 7:00 PM dMTSC 11/26/2011 Calgary 5:00 PM WMG 10/22/2011 Alberta 1:00 PM WF 11/4/2011 Calgary 7:00 PM dMTSC 1/13/2012 thompson Rivers 6:00 PM WMG 10/23/2011 Alberta 1:00 PM WF 11/5/2011 Calgary 7:00 PM dMTSC 1/14/2012 thompson Rivers 5:00 PM WMG 11/3-6/2011 CIS Championships Calgary 11/18/2011 Manitoba 7:00 PM dMTSC 1/20/2012 Manitoba 6:00 PM WMG 11/19/2011 Manitoba 7:00 PM dMTSC 1/21/2012 Manitoba 5:00 PM WMG 12/2/2011 lethbridge 7:00 PM dMTSC 2/3/2012 Brandon 6:00 PM WMG Women’s Rugby 12/3/2011 lethbridge 7:00 PM dMTSC 2/4/2012 Brandon 5:00 PM WMG 9/23/2011 lethbridge 4:00 PM Wolfson Field 1/6/2012 sfU 7:00 PM dMTSC 2/16-19/2012 Canada West Quarter-Finals 9/25/2011 Alberta 1:00 PM Wolfson Field 1/13/2012 regina 7:00 PM dMTSC 2/24-25/2012 Canada West Final Four 9/30/2011 Calgary 4:00 PM Wolfson Field 1/14/2012 regina 7:00 PM dMTSC 3/2-4/2012 CIS Championships Hamilton, ON 10/21-23/2011 Canada West Championships Calgary 1/27/2012 Alberta 7:00 PM dMTSC 11/3-6/2011 CIS Championships Peterborough, ON 1/28/2012 Alberta 7:00 PM dMTSC 2/10/2012 saskatchewan 7:00 PM dMTSC 2/11/2012 saskatchewan 7:00 PM dMTSC 2/24-26/2012 Canada West Quarter-Finals 3/2-4/2012 Canada West Semi-Finals 3/9-11/2012 Canada West Finals 3/22-25/2012 CIS Championships Fredericton, NB

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