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Sports in brief

Written on November 15, 2013. Posted in Sports.

Split weekend for men’s volleyball Men’s volleyball suffered their first loss of the year, falling in five sets to the OUA-leading York Lions at the ARC last Friday. The Gaels (3-1) fell behind early, losing the opening set 25-23 and the second set 25-22, before rallying to win the third and fourth...

Sports in Brief

Written on November 8, 2013. Posted in Sports.

Rowing snags five national medals A week after finishing second in Ontario, Queen’s women’s rowing team reached the national podium in Montreal. Spurred by four individual and team medals at last weekend’s Canadian University Rowing Championships (CURC), the women won the overall bronze medal, while...

Silver and bronze

Written on October 29, 2013. Posted in Sports.

Matt Christie reigned over Ontario on Sunday. The third-year Gaels rower won gold in the lightweight men’s single at the OUA championships in St. Catharines, posting Queen’s best individual result and locking down a major piece of hardware. Months after competing for Canada at the Under-23 World Championships,...

Gaels rower goes international

Written on October 18, 2013. Posted in Sports.

Both at home and overseas, Meghan Robinson is picking up where her dad left off. The fourth-year Gaels rower made her international debut this past summer, suiting up for Canada at the World Rowing Under-23 Championships in Linz, Austria. Racing with the women’s heavyweight eight was Robinson’s first...

Finding hidden talents

Written on September 27, 2013. Posted in Sports.

Jenna Adams came to Queen’s to play volleyball. Three weeks later, she’s switched from land to water, swapped a ball for an oar — and transformed from veteran to beginner. She’s one of 36 novice rowers in the Gaels’ Talent Identification (TID) stream, the introductory tier of Queen’s storied rowing...

For varsity squads, the time is now

Written on September 5, 2013. Posted in Sports.

Football Queen’s enters the 2013 campaign as the team to beat in the OUA. Ranked no. 2 in the CIS pre-season rankings, best in the OUA, the Gaels shellacked the York Lions 52-1 in the season opener. Star receiver Giovanni Aprile scored four touchdowns, including a 115-yard missed field goal return. Aprile’s...

High stakes on the lake

Written on May 26, 2013. Posted in Sports.

The Queen’s-McGill rivalry is still strong — in one sport, at least. When the Gaels prevailed in the 17th annual Queen’s-McGill Challenge Boat Race on April 28, there was more than just the Lorne Gales Challenge Cup on the line. It’s common in collegiate rowing competitions for teams to “bet” their...

National recognition for fall Gaels

Written on November 29, 2012. Posted in Sports.

1. Men’s rugby Everything came together for the men’s rugby team this year. The veteran Gaels capped off a storybook season by reclaiming the OUA championship, topping the Western Mustangs 29-18 in the title game. The result avenged a heartbreaking 22-19 loss to Western earlier in the year — the lone...

Freezing gold

Written on October 30, 2012. Posted in Sports.

The Gaels’ rowing team thrived under hostile weather conditions. The women’s team overcame high winds, whipping rain and near-zero temperatures to win the OUA championship in St. Catharine’s on Saturday. The men’s team placed third. Nearly every competitor on the women’s side won a medal, to finish...

Final tune-up

Written on October 16, 2012. Posted in Sports.

Queen’s rowing teams aren’t favourites, but they’re in fine form heading into the season’s biggest competition. The Gaels rowing team traveled to St. Catharine’s on Saturday for the Brock Invitational — its final regatta before the OUA championship on Oct. 27. The team posted strong finishes on both...

Fall teams look to improve across the board

Written on September 7, 2012. Posted in Sports.

Football With 20 starters returning from last year, the Queen’s Gaels will begin the 2012 football season ranked 6th in the country. On a team replete with individual talent at every position, their shot at the Yates Cup will hinge on the maturation of one player: quarterback Billy McPhee. Last year,...

‘Focus like a laser beam’

Written on July 30, 2012. Posted in Sports.

Two male rowers are building the Queen’s rowing team’s Olympic pedigree. The last Olympic medal won by a former Gael was Diane O’Grady’s bronze in rowing at the 1996 Atlanta Games. Morgan Jarvis and Michael Wilkinson trained years ago at Queen’s under rowing head coach John Armitage, before qualifying...

Gaels seek edge

Written on June 25, 2012. Posted in Sports.

Men’s rowing captain Rami Maassarani is on the water at the Kingston Rowing Club seven days a week. For him and many other Gaels, the end of the school year doesn’t signify a time to rest. “We’re on the water at least once a day, usually twice,” said Maassarani, who’s entering his fifth season with...

London in sight

Written on February 16, 2012. Posted in Sports.

Former Queen’s rower Rares Crisan works out three times a day at Rowing Canada’s national training centre in Victoria, B.C. He starts at 7:30 a.m. He stops to eat breakfast two hours later, then he’s back on the water by 11 a.m. In the afternoon, he returns to the complex to lift weights. “Your brain...

Sights set on Olympics

Written on February 3, 2012. Posted in Sports.

Isolda Penney stopped rowing in 1995. Halfway through her Queen’s undergraduate career, she got married and had a child. Over the next decade, she raised her son, finished her BA, tried starting a wedding cake company and had two more children. She hardly exercised for 11 years. She didn’t row, run...

Women's soccer tops varsity power rankings

Written on December 1, 2011. Posted in Sports.

1. Women’s soccer No one came close to the women’s soccer team this season. The Gaels won their second consecutive national championship and lost only one game all year, finishing 19-1-2. They even improved on last season, when their record was 19-3. This team was clutch. Three of its playoff wins...

Silver and bronze

Written on November 1, 2011. Posted in Sports.

The Queen’s rowers won silver and bronze medals at the OUA championship in St. Catharines on Saturday. The women’s team finished second overall behind the Western Mustangs while the men finished third behind the Mustangs and the Brock Badgers. The women’s team were led by first-place finishes from...

A morning on the river

Written on September 23, 2011. Posted in Sports.

Just after 5:30 a.m. on Wednesday, crowds of Queen’s rowers carried boats from the Kingston Rowing Club headquarters down to the docks on the shores of the Cataraqui River. They hit the water clad in toques and fleeces, using spotlights to navigate through the darkness. “At the end of today’s row,...

Queen’s Gaels fall varsity preview

Written on September 9, 2011. Posted in Sports.

Football The football team had a rude awakening last season. After a 2009 Vanier Cup victory, the 2010 squad dropped to a 3-5 regular season and a first-round playoff exit meant a lot of growing pains for a young team. But a challenging campaign allowed numerous young players to get significant OUA...

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Sports in brief

Sports in Brief

Silver and bronze

Gaels rower goes international

Finding hidden talents

For varsity squads, the time is now

High stakes on the lake

National recognition for fall Gaels

Freezing gold

Final tune-up

Fall teams look to improve across the board

‘Focus like a laser beam’

Gaels seek edge

London in sight

Sights set on Olympics

Women's soccer tops varsity power rankings

Silver and bronze

A morning on the river

Queen’s Gaels fall varsity preview

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