Archives for the ‘Sports’ Category

Ski Club Stoked on Revelstoke

By Julia McIntyre-Smith • Mar 31st, 2010 • Category: Sports

Snow has been a hard commodity to come by this year.

With such little snowfall, hitting some powder seemed like a fool’s dream, but the Selkirk College Ski Club are foolhardy. Forced to cancel the Red Mountain Ski Night due to lack of interest, the members of the ski club decided the [...]



Bouldering Club Builds Cave & Hosts Competition

By Kristjanne Vosper • Mar 31st, 2010 • Category: Sports

On March 2, the founding members of the SCSU’s Total Bouldering Club, James Boldt and Tanya Foster, RRS students at Selkirk’ College, unveiled an almost entirely revamped bouldering cave in the Castlegar campus, boasting challenging new climbing routes for all experience levels.
The occasion marked the club’s inaugural Bouldering Competition, which was complete with oodles [...]



Selkirk Saints, Brendan Blackmore, Speaks Sports

By Julia McIntyre-Smith • Mar 31st, 2010 • Category: SpeakSports

Welcome to the first edition of the Selkirk Saints player profiles!

This month I spoke with Brendan Blackmore #14 about what it is like playing hockey for Selkirk College. I started off slow with a couple of easy questions.

JMS: What position do you play?

BB: Left wing.

JMS: Who is [...]



“Topping” The List For Selkirk Rugby Players

By Julia McIntyre-Smith • Jan 26th, 2010 • Category: Lead Story, Sports

Yelling loud & hitting the ground, the rugby club has come to town!

Karl Topping, a first year RRS student, decided that, although Selkirk College is a fantastic school, there was definitely something missing.

Like the sports innovator William Webb Ellis, who first took the ball in his arms and ran with [...]



Sweet Saints Volleyball Action

By Julia McIntyre-Smith • Jan 11th, 2010 • Category: News, Sports

Let me tell you something great about watching the Selkirk Saints play… Great seats!
On the floor, which is the best vantage point to watch some killer volleyball.
And have I mentioned the food? You can indulge in such delicacies as sushi and fresh cookies. But that, my friends, is just the smallest [...]



What Is Love? A Hoop and A Dream

By Derek Szilagyi • Mar 30th, 2009 • Category: Opinion, Sports

Every March, American university male and female basketball players compete in front of millions of viewers and bring out intense passions, not only in themselves but in the hearts’ of worldwide fans. Many people look at me like I’m clinically insane when I tell them stories and plans of myself calling in sick to work [...]



More than being stoked and stoned: Tips for the new snowboarder

By CUP • Jan 30th, 2009 • Category: Sports

By Alexandra Fox
The Carillon (University of Regina)
 
REGINA (CUP) – The first Olympic snowboarding competition took place in 1998. Canadian Ross Rebagliati won the gold medal only to have a urine test reveal positive for marijuana use. This event changed the stereotype of snowboarders forever, but this sport requires some serious skills.
On slopes anywhere, snowboarders are [...]



Trail Hockey Hottest Ticket Around

By Derek Szilagyi • Jan 28th, 2009 • Category: News, Sports

After a disappointing effort resulted in a loss two days earlier against the Nanaimo Clippers, the Trail Smoke Eaters came back on Saturday, January 17 in front of 1018 fans, to win in a brilliant game against the Salmon Arm Silverbacks.
With trade deadline pickups Brett Corcoran and Scott Jacklin in uniform, the Smokies came out [...]



Free Agent Fiasco

By Derek Szilagyi • Jan 25th, 2009 • Category: Life and Style, Opinion, Sports

As the Major League Baseball free agent period winds down, a chilling theme for baseball fans seems to be apparent: free agency isn’t free. Another off-season has come and gone and it is evident that players will be chasing the paychecks to the big market teams. In contrast, small-market teams are forced to be [...]



Gold medals don’t make strong countries

By CUP • Sep 2nd, 2008 • Category: Sports

By Jordan Hartshorn, The Sheaf (University of Saskatchewan)
SASKATOON (CUP) – Every four years Canadians recycle a cliché, comic formula to illustrate their country’s sour performance at the Summer Olympics.
“Wow, Canada’s doing horrible. Even [insert odd sounding, little-known nation] has more medals than us!”
Someone always chuckles. Azerbaijan just sounds so funny.
Sadly, this is [...]