Tag: Nadia Popov

Varsity teams celebrate at 83rd Colour Awards

On Wednesday night, Queen’s Athletics dressed up the ARC for the 83rd Colour Awards, honouring this year’s top performances from Queen’s varsity teams. Outstanding Performance of the Year: Gavin Stone, Rowing Gavin Stone was unable to attend this year’s Colour Awards ceremony—but he had a good reason...

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Mental health matters every day of the year

It was the most important game of our season — the OUA semi-final.   Every season, we set our sights on making it to the U Sports national championship. And every year, we have the potential. But in order to get there, we had to win a critical game against the McMaster Marauders, a formidable force...

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Gaels trio go international

Just when they thought their seasons were over, Nadia Popov, McKinley Hunt and Janna Slevinsky got phone calls from Rugby Canada.  After helping Queen’s earn a silver medal in the OUA championships and finish fifth in the country, the three women were asked to play for Canada’s senior team in a test...

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Returning to the OUA with a new perspective

While Nadia Popov might be a rugby player with a Wikipedia page and a Pan-Am gold medal, she has midterms on her mind right now.  After three years away from university, Popov is in her second year of eligibility at Queen’s.  In 2012, she busted onto the scene at Queen’s, becoming a starter right...

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Gaels blow Trent out of the water in a rainy 71-5 match

Nothing could stop the women’s rugby team, not even the tornado warning on Saturday, as they rolled over the Trent Excalibur 71-5 in their first home game of the season on Nixon Field. The Gaels were dominant from the first whistle of the match, spending most of the half in the Excalibur’s end, with...

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Panache on the pitch

Former 100m sprinter Carlin Isles abruptly made the switch from track to rugby sevens. Isles’ sevens success rests on dazzling speed, but he recently told The Associated Press, “You’ve got to have that cool swagger about you.” Sevens is played with seven aside in 14-minute games, unlike the more traditional...

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