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Week 3: Gaels weekend road roundup

Written on January 30, 2018. Posted in Sports.

Weekend sweep sees women’s hockey top OUA standings The OUA’s first-placed Gaels continued their stellar play this weekend with a pair of wins over the Guelph Gryphons and York Lions. In Saturday’s matchup against Guelph, Queen’s went back and forth for much of the game with the nationally-ranked...

Week One: Gaels weekend road roundup

Written on January 16, 2018. Posted in Sports.

Inconsistency continues to plague men’s hockey season Men’s hockey are coming home empty-handed after suffering losses to the McGill Redmen and Concordia Stingers over the weekend. Although the Gaels came into their Montreal-based doubleheader riding a wave of confidence — they’ve won seven of their...

Men’s and Women’s volleyball open season on promising note

Written on November 7, 2017. Posted in Sports.

This weekend, Queen’s got their first look at the men’s and women’s volleyball teams in their first home games of the season. Men’s Volleyball Going into her final season as head coach of the Gaels, Brenda Willis was hoping to make a strong first impression as the 2017-18 season got underway. Queen’s...

Queen’s only female varsity coach to retire this spring

Written on October 5, 2017. Posted in Sports.

As of March 2018, men’s volleyball head coach Brenda Willis will be retiring from Queen’s after 31 years with the school. Her decision effectively leaves the university with no full-time female head coaches on its staff directory. Willis came to Queen’s in 1987 after a pair of coaching stints at the...

Men's volleyball ousted from playoffs by undefeated McMaster

Written on March 7, 2017. Posted in Sports.

The men’s volleyball team closed out their season this Saturday with a 3-0 loss to the undefeated McMaster Marauders in the quarter-finals of the OUA playoffs. While the Marauders dominated the first set 25-15, the Gaels were able to put a little more pressure on their opposition in final two sets,...

Not without a few bumps in the road

Written on January 27, 2017. Posted in Sports.

Will Hoey, the men’s volleyball team’s 6’11” star middle, hasn’t had an easy time during his five-year stint wearing tricolour. This season alone, injury has forced him to remain on the sidelines for nine of the team’s 11 games. Making his debut halfway through the season, Hoey put up an efficient...

Gaels away from home weekend round up: Week 3

Written on January 24, 2017. Posted in Sports.

Men’s hockey: The men’s hockey team split the weekend with a 5-4 overtime loss to the York Lions on Friday and a 5-0 win against the Brock Badgers on Saturday. On Friday, the Gaels travelled to Toronto to play in the Lions’ den. While the Gaels came out strong, starting the scoring in the first period,...

Men’s volleyball rolls past RMC in straight sets

Written on January 17, 2017. Posted in Sports.

Even though they’re more than halfway through the season, Sunday’s matchup against RMC had a playoff-like atmosphere for Queen’s. In front of a boisterous home crowd, the Queen’s men’s volleyball team kicked off the second half of their season with a convincing straight-sets win against the neighbouring...

Men’s volleyball team looks forward to season’s second half

Written on January 13, 2017. Posted in Sports.

Returning to class with the cold winter upon us, volleyball season is just starting to heat up. The men’s team begin the second half of their season this weekend against a 2-7 Royal Military College team, looking to continue their strong start to the 2016-17 campaign. When the season began, there...

In Photos: Volleyball

Written on November 4, 2016. Posted in Sports.

This weekend, both the men’s and women’s volleyball team won 3-0 against the Trent Excalibur. Men’s Volleyball Markus Trence scored eight kills, one service ace and one dig in the victory. Dylan Hunt scored 11 points for Queen’s, most notably on eight kills. Jamie Wright...

Young team uses pre-season to learn

Written on October 6, 2016. Posted in Sports.

This weekend, the men’s volleyball team faced their first test of the season at home during the Queen’s Invitational men’s volleyball tournament in the ARC. The tournament featured the top teams from across Canada, including the reigning CIS champions, Trinity Western Spartans and runners-up, McMaster...

Squandered chance for veteran men's volleyball squad

Written on March 11, 2016. Posted in Sports.

Men’s volleyball will be ruing their pair of losses at last weekend’s OUA Final Four in Hamilton. After losing in four sets against Ryerson on Thursday night, the Gaels still had a chance to advance to the CIS national championship on Friday night against the Waterloo Warriors in the OUA bronze medal...

Men's volleyball drops OUA semifinal

Written on March 4, 2016. Posted in Sports.

While they overpowered the York Lions last week, men’s volleyball couldn’t seal the deal in the OUA semifinal on Thursday night in Hamilton. After Queen’s took the first set in the OUA semifinal over Ryerson, the Rams stormed back with three consecutive victories to claim the win by a 3-1 score. All...

Men's volleyball moves on to OUA Final Four

Written on March 1, 2016. Posted in Sports.

In a match two years in the making, the men’s volleyball team finally knocked off their playoff rivals. Queen’s defeated the York Lions in straight sets in front of a packed house at the ARC on Saturday afternoon. The Lions had eliminated the Gaels from the playoffs in the past two seasons. This...

A standout at the net

Written on February 5, 2016. Posted in Sports.

Standing at 6’8”, Scott Brunet’s defensive presence on the volleyball court has caused headaches for opposing coaches and teams this year. A fifth year from Calgary, Alberta, Brunet’s become one of the premier men’s volleyball players in the province, with 53 total blocks this year placing him second...

Men’s volleyball suffers loss to top-ranked Mac

Written on January 19, 2016. Posted in Sports.

Men’s volleyball started off the second half of their season with their toughest opponent yet, the number one CIS ranked McMaster Marauders, who came into the game with an 11-0 record. At first, the Gaels put McMaster in unfamiliar waters, handing McMaster their third set loss of the season. But eventually...

Dakic presiding over Ontario’s courts

Written on November 27, 2015. Posted in Sports.

After playing four years of volleyball as an undergrad at York, Marko Dakic, now a first-year law student, can only play for the Gaels for one season before his eligibility ends. But in his first year at Queen’s, Dakic has been on fire, climbing to the top spot in the OUA in both kills per set...

Confidence sky-high

Written on November 20, 2015. Posted in Sports.

Men’s volleyball continued their winning ways this past weekend, taking down both the Windsor Lancers (1-5) and Western Mustangs (4-2) in a convincing fashion. The Gaels (6-1) were riding a three-game wining streak into the weekend, and extended it two more games, pulling them within two points of...

A fresh start on the court

Written on October 16, 2015. Posted in Sports.

After an early exit from last year’s post-season, men’s volleyball enters the 2015-16 season with a bitter taste in their mouths. The Gaels won both games against the York Lions during the regular season, and looked to be in good shape for the playoffs at 12-8. Despite their strong showing, however,...

Hoey stands tall on, off court

Written on June 2, 2015. Posted in Sports.

Standing at 6’11”, men’s volleyball middle blocker Will Hoey is no stranger to double takes. Volleyball players above 6’5” are a common occurrence, but only a handful of players in the OUA reach Hoey’ssky-scraping height. His height has tactical advantages that keep opposing coaches up at night....

‘Ball best among Gaels

Written on March 20, 2015. Posted in Sports.

1. Women’s basketball After most Queen’s squads made an early playoff exit, women’s basketball’s surprise run to the OUA Final Four earned them top spot in our winter power rankings for the second straight season. While the Ryerson Rams brought the Cinderella story to an end in the provincial semi-finals,...

One and done

Written on February 27, 2015. Posted in Sports.

Men’s volleyball’s first-round playoff exit wasn’t the ending they had in mind back in September. The Gaels dropped their post-season contest with the York Lions in four sets on Feb. 15. The game had been postponed from the previous day due to a power outage on York’s campus. Queen’s took the opening...

Home-court hopes dashed

Written on February 10, 2015. Posted in Sports.

Men’s volleyball lost home-court advantage in the first round of OUA playoffs with mixed results this weekend. A straight-set loss to the McMaster Marauders (19-1) on Friday and a four-set victory over the Guelph Gryphons (9-11) the next night weren’t enough to keep the Gaels (12-8) ahead of their...

Home-court at stake after losses

Written on February 3, 2015. Posted in Sports.

Two road losses have left men’s volleyball fighting for a home playoff game going into the final weekend of regular season play. The Gaels (11-7) lost in four sets last weekend to both the Western Mustangs (10-8) and the Windsor Lancers (8-10). They’re tied for fourth place in the OUA with the York...

Perfect homestand

Written on January 27, 2015. Posted in Sports.

The Gaels are flying high after a pair of straight-set wins in their final home games of the season. Victories over the Ryerson Rams (12-4) and Toronto Varsity Blues (4-13) kept Queen’s (11-5) in fourth place in the OUA, just behind the Rams and the third-place Waterloo Warriors (12-5). “We were firing...

Homegrown hustle

Written on January 23, 2015. Posted in Sports.

Jamie Wright wasn’t recruited to play Gaels volleyball, but he knew he wanted to attend Queen’s. The school — and its athletic programs — is in the second-year setter’s blood. His older sister Jenny is the leading scorer on this year’s women’s basketball team, and his father Bob quarterbacked Gaels...

Swept in straight sets

Written on January 20, 2015. Posted in Sports.

Men’s volleyball head coach Brenda Willis called a huddle after her team’s loss to the McMaster Marauders on Sunday. The Gaels were swept by McMaster, despite scoring 19 or more points in every set. “I told them that it’s not enough to play well enough to win ‘til 20 and then let it go,” Willis said....

A lot more to the job

Written on January 16, 2015. Posted in Sports.

Gary Gilks understands the balancing act his players go through. Just as varsity athletes juggle sports with academic obligations, their coaches are watching tape, formulating game plans, recruiting high talent and — in some cases — working other jobs. Gilks is a subcontracted carpenter for a local...

Poise powers straight-set victories

Written on January 13, 2015. Posted in Sports.

A York Lions player kicked a sideline chair in frustration midway through his team’s loss to men’s volleyball on Sunday. Queen’s (8-4) marched through two opponents this weekend without losing a set, overpowering the Nipissing Lakers (3-9) on Saturday and muscling out York (7-5). Queen’s and York...

Sports in brief

Written on January 9, 2015. Posted in Sports.

Gaels face Canada’s best in exhibition play Men’s volleyball confronted tough western Canadian opposition over the holiday break. The Gaels went 1-3 at an exhibition tournament in St. Petersburg, Florida last weekend, against three of the top 10 teams in Canada. They were swept by the Manitoba Bisons...

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