Women’s volleyball coach Joely Christian-Macfarlane said her team won’t be intimidated when they play the four-time defending national champions this afternoon. After winning an OUA gold medal last weekend, the seventh-seeded Gaels are in Hamilton for their first-ever CIS national tournament appearance. They...

With her team only one point away from victory during the fifth set of an OUA semifinal last Saturday, women’s volleyball captain Becky Billings called her teammates in for a huddle. Billings had just watched them blow a two-set lead to the University of Toronto Varsity Blues. She said she brought...

When Joely Christian-Macfarlane became the women’s volleyball head coach in 2007, she made outside hitters Becky Billings and Natalie Gray her first two official recruits. Last weekend, both women played the last OUA regular season games of their careers, beating the Western Mustangs 3-1 and the Windsor...