In university athletics, players have only five years to don their school’s jersey before their eligibility runs out and they graduate.
Every team loses a handful of players each year at Queen’s. While the holes they leave on the depth chart get filled by incoming recruits, the impact on the programs...
It was a loss that sparked men’s rugby’s run to their third straight OUA title.
The Gaels suffered defeat at the hands of the McMaster Marauders on Sept. 28, losing 18-13 and falling to 3-1 on the regular season.
Forward Brendan Sloan said the loss proved to be a turning point. The Gaels reeled off...
For the third year in a row, men’s rugby claimed provincial supremacy at Nixon Field.
Queen’s topped the visiting Guelph Gryphons 32-23 on the heels of a blistering comeback Saturday, winning their third consecutive OUA championship.
“The boys earned it today. They played their guts out,” said...
With no more than two games left in their time at Queen’s, several men’s rugby veterans are itching for one last championship.
A win in this year’s OUA final would give the Gaels three straight titles — the league’s first three-peat in nearly two decades. A first-place regular season finish has the...
After a loss to the McMaster Marauders snapped their 19-game winning streak, men’s rugby is looking to get back on the right track this weekend.
The Gaels host the undefeated Guelph Gryphons tomorrow afternoon. Winning by more than seven points would move Queen’s into a tie with the Gryphons for second...
If there’s a group of carolers on your doorstep this year, it might just be the cross country team.
For more than 15 years, the Gaels squad has sung Christmas carols to raise donations for Martha’s Table, a Kingston-based non-profit organization that serves nutritious low-cost meals to those in need.
One...
Men’s rugby stayed perfect in 2014 by gutting out a tight win on the road.
Facing the Brock Badgers (2-2), Queen’s held on in the second half for a 24-17 victory and moved to 3-0 on the year. With the win, the Gaels have now won 19 straight games, including playoffs.
Gaels flanker Brendan Sloan said...
Three years removed from her final game, Liz Kench still maintains a Queen’s connection.
A former women’s hockey forward, Kench is one of several Gaels to volunteer as a coach in Kingston youth sports. This year, she took over the reins of the Kingston Ice Wolves intermediate AA team, coaching 16...
Men’s rugby rolls 173 players deep.
It’s a roster made possible by a unique system of team selection: a system of no cuts.
While the Gaels’ first team competes in the OUA, Queen’s also features five to six reserve sides on an annual basis. It’s a unique, inclusive philosophy enforced under head coach...
The defending OUA champions rolled over their second opponent of the season on Sunday.
Queen’s extended its early winning streak on the road, defeating the Waterloo Warriors 62-0. The victory was even more emphatic than the Gaels’ season opener ―a 48-0 home win on Sept. 7 against the Laurier Golden...
Dan Moor came a long way prior to captaining the men’s rugby team.
He played on the fifth squad in 2008, but scored the opening try last November to lead Queen’s over the Western Mustangs for the OUA championship. Climbing the seven-team rugby club ranks was a long-term project.
“It doesn’t just happen...