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Category: NCAA / U Sports

Stanford goes third straight at NCAA Division I swimming and diving championships

Photo by Jack Spitser / Spitser Photography / NCAA. It’s one of the fastest swim meets of the year, where impressive feats of speed often call for the history books to be re-written when the lights come down. However, this is not a competition between professionals swimmers, but for college kids. Many putting down the […]

Records fall as University of British Columbia women claim national titles

The UBC Thunderbirds women and men host the championship trophy and banners at the conclusion of USPORT Championships. (Photo courtesy of Rich Lam/ UBC Thunderbirds.) Last weekend, the best varsity swimmers in Canada stormed into the UBC Aquatic Centre to compete for the title of best women’s or men’s program in the country. It was […]

UBC wins 10th consecutive Canada West banner

Photo courtesy of UBC Swimming Instagram page. The University of British Columbia (UBC) is remarkable for its ability to consistently bring swimmers prepared for battle at championship time. They repeated this feat by capturing both the women’s and men’s Canadian Western Championship banners at this year’s championships hosted in Calgary. This was the sixth consecutive […]

UBC Rowing wins women’s and men’s overall points titles at Canadian University Championships

The UBC women’s team hold the championship banner with Coach Craig Pond. Photo by Stephen Leithwood/Brock Badgers. The University of British Columbia (UBC) made history at this year’s Canadian University (CUs) Rowing Championships, winning both the women’s and men’s overall points banners. Brock University held the regatta for the first time, and racing was held […]

NCAA D1 basketball preview

Photo courtesy of ESPN.com. After all four #1 seeds made the final four last year, a pair of exciting overtime games saw Notre Dame outlast Connecticut and Mississippi State survive Louisville before they met in the finals. A veteran-filled Fighting Irish squad beat Mississippi State 61-58 to win their second national championship in program history. […]