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McKellar ready for what the future holds

Written on November 30, 2017. Posted in Sports.

For women’s hockey forward Clare McKellar, life after graduation isn’t as scary as it is for some students. As a fifth-year economics student, McKellar has already seen her time at Queen’s extend beyond the ice. This past summer, she worked in the finance department for Hockey Canada. “[It] was...

Women’s hockey continues hot streak

Written on November 21, 2017. Posted in Sports.

Over the past month, the women’s hockey team has made one thing very clear: they can beat anybody in the country. On Saturday night, goaltender Stephanie Pascal earned her second consecutive shutout in the Gaels’ 2-0 victory against the UOIT Ridgebacks. Following their lone win of the weekend, Queen’s...

Statement weekend for women’s hockey

Written on October 30, 2017. Posted in Sports.

It couldn’t have been a better home opening weekend for the women’s hockey team. With matchups against the nationally seventh-ranked Guelph Gryphons and the York Lions, Queen’s looked to continue their undefeated start to the season. After beating the Gryphons 3-1 on Saturday and the Lions 4-1 on...

Gaels weekend road roundup: week six

Written on October 24, 2017. Posted in Sports.

It was a successful weekend for Queen’s teams as they hit the road across Ontario. Men’s rugby finish season undefeated The men’s rugby team in action against Western earlier this season. Journal File Photo The Gaels capped off their regular season with a dominant 62-18 road game victory against...

Successful start to weekend for Queen’s hockey

Written on October 17, 2017. Posted in Sports.

Homecoming weekend signalled the start to the men’s and women’s hockey team’s 2017/18 campaign. Women’s Hockey It was a positive start for the Gaels in their sole game against the UOIT Ridgebacks. In a tightly contested matchup, Queen’s slipped by the Ridgebacks with a score of 2-1. “It’s always...

Women’s hockey raring for OUA glory

Written on October 5, 2017. Posted in Sports.

The women’s hockey team’s 2016-17 campaign was a wild ride. In a season with impressive winning streaks, lengthy overtime games and a trip to the U Sports Championships as the host, Queen’s made their mark on the Canadian university hockey scene. Going into their upcoming season, the Gaels are aiming...

Women’s hockey host Queen’s Invitational

Written on September 26, 2017. Posted in Sports.

Women’s hockey opened the annual Queen’s Hockey Invitational Tournament last Friday on a high-note, edging the Ottawa Gee Gees 4-3 in a narrow overtime contest for their only victory of the weekend. The Gaels took the ice against UOttawa with a clear pursuit towards a win. They dominated in the first...

Women’s Hockey lands pair of transfers from down south

Written on June 26, 2017. Posted in Sports.

When deciding where’s the best fit for a student athlete, one of the biggest questions is whether to cross the border or not. For two of Queen’s newest women’s hockey players, the decision to go to the United States has brought them back home. After one year of college in the NCAA, forward Abby Lafreniere...

Crouse says goodbye to Queen's

Written on March 31, 2017. Posted in Sports.

Kyla Crouse is moving on. After four years as a Gael, she and two other women’s hockey players are parting ways as their impending futures nudge them towards their professional lives and beyond. “I have no regrets, honestly no regrets, as cheesy as that is,” Crouse said with a beaming smile during...

Competing to the final whistle for women’s hockey

Written on March 24, 2017. Posted in Sports.

Very few university hockey teams in Canada can say that they played hockey on the last day of the season. On Sunday, the women’s hockey team was given that honour. After dropping their first game in the U Sports Championship to UBC on Friday, the Gaels bounced back by defeating St. Francis Xavier,...

Gaels upset falls short in the first round

Written on March 17, 2017. Posted in Sports.

It was a packed and rowdy Thursday night at the Strathcona Paper Centre in Napanee, as the eighth-seed Queen’s women’s hockey team looked to open their U Sports Championship campaign on a winning note against the first-seed UBC Thunderbirds. The Gaels were unable to complete the upset in a game that...

Women's hockey gearing up for U Sports championship

Written on March 10, 2017. Posted in Sports.

With the U Sports Championship around the corner, the women’s hockey team is preparing for battle in Napanee. Queen’s will host the national tournament from March 16 to 19 at the Strathcona Paper Centre in Napanee. It’s the first time the Gaels are hosting the championships since women’s hockey made...

Women’s hockey continues to roll

Written on February 3, 2017. Posted in Sports.

It wasn’t the start that any of them had in mind. After ten games, the women’s hockey team was looking at a 4-6 record and a discouraging weekend consisting of two straight losses. Something wasn’t right. And then it was. After the winless November 11-12 weekend, the Gaels went on to win eight-straight...

Women’s hockey continues to roll, winning eight in a row

Written on January 31, 2017. Posted in Sports.

On Saturday night, the Kingston Memorial Centre had a buzz unlike any regular season game this year. With the arena packed with players’ friends and family for seniors night, honouring the Class of 2017 Gaels, the women’s hockey team was looking to extend their seven-game winning streak to eight against...

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,...

Finding herself back in the net

Written on January 20, 2017. Posted in Sports.

Stephanie Pascal turns her head. Head coach Matt Holmberg taps her on the shoulder and tells her that she’s going in. It’s the first game of the season for the women’s hockey team, playing against Nipissing, and it’s early in the third period. The Gaels are down 5-2. It’s been 377 days since Pascal...

Women's hockey streak snapped in overtime

Written on November 25, 2016. Posted in Sports.

With the women’s hockey team and Windsor separated by one point in division standings going into their game last weekend, both sides knew the game would be tight. In the end, Queen’s prevailed in dramatic overtime fashion by a score of 3-2. The two teams now share the eighth spot in the OUA standings. Though...

Growing pains for women’s hockey team

Written on November 4, 2016. Posted in Sports.

Just six games into the season, the Queen’s women’s hockey team is still finding their groove. The Gaels split their two games on Halloween weekend, taking down the Varsity Blues 3-0 but dropping their Sunday afternoon contest to the Guelph Gryphons by a score of 3-1. Queen’s currently holds a 3-3...

Weekend road game roundup

Written on October 25, 2016. Posted in Sports.

Men’s rugby victory against RMC sees first-round playoff bye The men’s rugby team ended their regular season on a strong note with a 45-19 win against the RMC Paladins, securing their spot as the number two ranked team in the OUA. The team finished their season with a 6-1-1 record, falling only once...

Women's hockey split opening weekend

Written on October 18, 2016. Posted in Sports.

After the Gaels dropped their first round playoff series to the Nipissing Lakers in two tightly-contested games last season, the Gaels squared off in a rematch with their rivals on Homecoming Saturday. Although dominating the game, the Gaels dropped the contest by a score of 5-2. The Gaels outshot...

Working towards the national championships

Written on October 14, 2016. Posted in Sports.

At the beginning of a new season, it’s almost become a formality for teams to force-feed the phrase “new season, new start” when asked about their approach to the season ahead. Not for Queen’s women’s hockey team. In the 2015-16 season, the Gaels finished third in the OUA standings, displaying their...

McHaffie looking to buck the trend

Written on June 27, 2016. Posted in Sports.

Just a year after trading in her skates for a whistle and a white board, Morgan McHaffie is gaining support as she progresses in the coaching community. The former all-star for the Gaels’ hockey team will be working under the Coaching Association of Canada’s Women in Coaching mentorship program....

Women's hockey knocked out of playoffs

Written on March 1, 2016. Posted in Sports.

A third period comeback wasn’t in the cards for the women’s hockey team, as they bowed out of the post season on Friday night. The Gaels fell 3-2 to the Nipissing Lakers in the second game of the quarterfinal playoffs, two nights after dropping the series opener 2-1 in overtime against the same opponent....

A different kind of fatherly advice

Written on February 11, 2016. Posted in Sports.

Russ Holmberg isn’t an official assistant coach for Queen’s women’s hockey program, but that doesn’t prevent him from providing his opinions to the team. With his son Matt serving as the head coach of the Gaels, his advice has a different meaning than it would coming from just any informal advisor....

Resurgent offence leads to women's hockey comeback

Written on February 2, 2016. Posted in Sports.

When his team was down 2-0 after the first period, head coach Matt Holmberg didn’t give a coach’s speech in the intermission. Instead, he let his athletes do the talking. “I went up to our captains and said, ‘You know what? This one’s on the players,’” he said. “It was our leaders and our captains...

Sealing a sibling success

Written on January 29, 2016. Posted in Sports.

As Amber Sealey stood at the Queen’s bench after scoring her first career goal last season, her sister Alisha wrapped an arm around her. The gesture was quick, barely perceptible to the 100 or so spectators at the Memorial Centre that evening, but when it comes to the Sealeys, it’s one of many small moments...

Women's hockey back to winning

Written on January 26, 2016. Posted in Sports.

After starting their weekend homestand with a fourth loss in five games, the women’s hockey team was primed for a statement game. The Gaels did just that on Saturday night, topping the visiting Laurier Golden Hawks 5-2, one night after falling to the Waterloo Warriors 3-1. The victory over Laurier...

Women’s hockey falters against York

Written on January 19, 2016. Posted in Sports.

Returning in their first game back from the winter break, women’s hockey didn’t get the easy win they may have expected. Facing off against a York squad who’d only won twice in 13 previous contests, the Gaels mustered only a lone goal in 62 minutes of action, only to fall 2-1 in overtime. “We have...

A tale of two Crouses

Written on January 15, 2016. Posted in Sports.

While Queen’s forward Kyla Crouse’s home rink sits at Kingston’s Memorial Centre, another Crouse sibling is skating just over two kilometres away for the town’s beloved Frontenacs junior team. Now in her third year with the Gaels, Kyla’s play as a defensive forward for the women’s hockey team has...

Tables turned on women's hockey

Written on November 27, 2015. Posted in Sports.

Less than 24 hours after they claimed the top spot in the OUA, women’s hockey saw themselves humbled with a loss. The Gaels fell 4-1 to the Western Mustangs on Saturday, a night after picking up a 4-1 win over the Windsor Lancers. The Gaels were outmatched on Saturday night against Western, falling...

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