Women's Volleyball Archives - Page 3 of 4

Early elimination

Written on February 4, 2014. Posted in Sports.

Women’s volleyball won’t return to the OUA playoffs this season. Needing a pair of wins this weekend to keep their post-season hopes alive, the Gaels went down swinging, suffering two hard-fought losses. At 9-8, they’re three games behind the fourth-place Ryerson Rams (12-5) in the OUA East, with...

Swept aside

Written on January 28, 2014. Posted in Sports.

Eyeing the final playoff spot in the OUA East, women’s volleyball scored a massive upset win on the road. The team was away from the ARC for a second consecutive weekend, but pulled off two key victories against the Nipissing Lakers (0-15) and the nationally seventh-ranked York Lions (12-3). The Gaels...

Hurt but not out

Written on January 21, 2014. Posted in Sports.

The injury-plagued women’s volleyball team bounced back with a win against the Western Mustangs this weekend, after suffering a narrow defeat at the hands of the Windsor Lancers the day before. Queen’s (7-6) fell to the Lancers (8-5) Friday evening despite a solid effort. The Gaels suffered injuries...

Sibling partnership

Written on January 17, 2014. Posted in Sports.

Family values carry over from the Hagarty household to the Queen’s volleyball court. Sisters Brett and Katie Hagarty, from Aurora, Ont., are making a big impact on the women’s volleyball team. They’re the second set of sisters to play for the Gaels in the last five years. Katie, a fourth-year middle...

One and one in straight sets

Written on January 14, 2014. Posted in Sports.

Women’s volleyball had a win and loss in their return to OUA competition after promising holiday results. Coming off a bronze medal finish at a holiday exhibition tournament in Clearwater, Florida, the Gaels made quick work of the Waterloo Warriors on Saturday afternoon. The Guelph Gryphons returned...

Back and forth

Written on November 28, 2013. Posted in Sports.

The Gaels won and lost against some of the top competition in the OUA. On Friday night, the women swapped sets on the road with the Ryerson Rams (6-4), as the Gaels won in a deciding set. They lost in four frames to the Toronto Varsity Blues on Saturday. The Ryerson match proved to be one of the hardest-fought...

Rough road ahead

Written on November 22, 2013. Posted in Sports.

With their eyes on the fourth spot in the OUA East, women’s volleyball is hoping to make a mark in the coming weeks as they face tough inter-division competition. Queen’s improved to 4-2 this weekend as they beat the Lakehead Thunderwolves in three straight sets. The squad earned victory by a greater...

You win one, you lose one

Written on November 15, 2013. Posted in Sports.

A young Gaels squad provided tough competition in a loss to the province’s top team. Women’s volleyball moved to 3-2 on the season, besting the Nipissing Lakers in straight sets, one day after losing to the OUA-leading York Lions. The Gaels took the opening set from the Lions 25-22, before losing...

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...

Refine, progress and conquer

Written on October 25, 2013. Posted in Sports.

Men Men’s volleyball enters their season with playoff aspirations and old and new sets of hands taking the reins. Coming off an OUA quarterfinal exit in 2012-13, the Gaels open their season tonight on the road against the Guelph Gryphons. With just two departing graduates, the team’s maturing leadership...

Late-season lapse

Written on March 1, 2013. Posted in Sports.

There wasn’t a championship hangover for the women’s volleyball team — but there wasn’t much of a playoff run, either. One year after winning the OUA championship, the Gaels made a quick exit from the postseason, losing 3-1 to the Toronto Varsity Blues in first-round play. The team had a strong season,...

Volleyball in brief

Written on February 12, 2013. Posted in Sports.

Women stumble into playoffs The women closed out their regular season this weekend with two losses, dropping them to a fourth-place finish in the OUA. The Gaels (12-6) couldn’t take a set from the Toronto Varsity Blues (11-7) on Saturday, even with narrow scoring margins. Queen’s lost the first set...

Weekend wrap-up

Written on February 5, 2013. Posted in Sports.

Women’s volleyball splits five-set affairs After a hard-fought win and a tough loss, the Gaels remain in third place in the OUA. Queen’s couldn’t fend off the second-place York Lions on Saturday, losing the match in five sets, including a 15-10 defeat in the deciding frame. They’ve still yet to beat...

Room to improve

Written on January 29, 2013. Posted in Sports.

The Gaels finally met their match against the first-place Ottawa Gee-Gees. After a strong three-set victory against the RMC Paladins Friday night, Queen’s was shut out by the Gee-Gees on Saturday, ending their win streak at nine. Libero Shannon Walsh said the team played a strong first game despite...

‘Stangs spiked

Written on January 22, 2013. Posted in Sports.

The defending OUA champions’ win streak just reached eight. The women’s volleyball team beat the Western Mustangs (7-4) on the road in straight sets on Saturday afternoon. The win marked a turnaround from the previous week, when the Gaels struggled to beat lowly Brock and Waterloo, 3-2 in both matches. Team...

Which team has impressed the most?

Written on January 18, 2013. Posted in Sports.

Women’s Hockey The powerhouse women’s hockey team is the diamond in the rough of Queen’s Athletics. The rough, of course, is the Memorial Centre: the moth-eaten antique of a hockey rink. Fans are a rarity, but the few who attend rarely leave disappointed. At 16-2-1, the Gaels are one point behind...

Risky business

Written on January 15, 2013. Posted in Sports.

The Gaels took home two hard-fought wins this weekend, but their play left much to be desired. Queen’s pulled out consecutive five-set victories against the Brock Badgers and Waterloo Warriors. Still, head coach Joely Christian-Macfarlane said that the team’s performance was underwhelming. “We aren’t...

Halfway home

Written on November 29, 2012. Posted in Sports.

Women’s volleyball head coach Joely Christian-Macfarlane reflects positively on her team’s first semester of play. “We started slow and had a couple of losses early,” Christian-Macfarlane said. “We finished stronger and it would be nice to carry that momentum into the second half.” A 3-0 sweep of...

Promising returns

Written on November 23, 2012. Posted in Sports.

The only teams better than Queen’s right now are undefeated. Underneath the York Lions and the Ottawa Gee-Gees in the OUA are the Gaels (6-2), who rolled over the Windsor Lancers last Saturday for a fourth straight win. They won it in three sets, taking each by at least five points (25-14, 25-20,...

Sports in Brief

Written on November 16, 2012. Posted in Sports.

The women’s volleyball team enjoyed a successful road weekend winning its matches against the Guelph Gryphons and the Waterloo Warriors. On Friday night the Gaels lost their first set to Guelph handily, but were able to bounce back right away and take the following three sets (25-23, 26-24, 25-19)...

Rapid recovery

Written on November 9, 2012. Posted in Sports.

The women’s volleyball team had mixed results this past weekend They dropped their Saturday match to the Ryerson Rams in five sets and rebounded to beat the Toronto Varsity Blues three sets to one on Sunday afternoon. The Gaels opened slowly against the Rams and were unable to recover. They overcame...

Sports in Brief

Written on September 25, 2012. Posted in Sports.

Women third in pre-season tourney The defending OUA champion women’s volleyball team secured a bronze medal to open the 2012 season. Queen’s placed third in the Ryerson Invitational pre-season tournament last weekend, topping the Windsor Lancers 3-1 in Sunday’s bronze-medal match. The Gaels started...

Women's volleyball leads power rankings

Written on March 23, 2012. Posted in Sports.

1. Women’s volleyball The women’s volleyball team defied all expectations to win its first-ever Ontario championship this season. After the Ottawa Gee-Gees ended the Gaels’ playoff hopes last season in the 2010-11 OUA quarter-finals, the Gaels lost OUA East All-Stars Katie Matthews and Lorna Button...

Gaels exceed expectations

Written on March 9, 2012. Posted in Sports.

Back in October, nobody thought the women’s volleyball team would become Ontario champions. After losing 10 players in the off-season, a 12-rookie team went 2-8 in preseason play. Before the opening game of the OUA regular season, head coach Joely Christian-Macfarlane said her team’s goal was simple:...

Women's volleyball makes early exit at nationals

Written on March 2, 2012. Posted in Sports.

The women’s volleyball team’s national medal hopes are over. The Gaels fell in straight sets to the second-seeded University of British Columbia Thunderbirds in the CIS quarter-final on Friday afternoon in Hamilton. Queen’s came to its first-ever national tournament on an eight-game winning streak...

Tough opening game

Written on March 2, 2012. Posted in Sports.

Women’s volleyball coach Joely Christian-Macfarlane said her team won’t be intimidated when they play the four-time defending national champions this afternoon. After winning an OUA gold medal last weekend, the seventh-seeded Gaels are in Hamilton for their first-ever CIS national tournament appearance. They...

Ontario champs

Written on March 2, 2012. Posted in Sports.

With her team only one point away from victory during the fifth set of an OUA semifinal last Saturday, women’s volleyball captain Becky Billings called her teammates in for a huddle. Billings had just watched them blow a two-set lead to the University of Toronto Varsity Blues. She said she brought...

Women ready for playoff run

Written on February 16, 2012. Posted in Sports.

Women’s volleyball coach Joely Christian-Macfarlane got what she wanted — Queen’s will play the Brock Badgers in the first round of the OUA playoffs. “I didn’t want to give it away as to who I wanted to play,” she said, “but actually I really wanted to play Brock.” The Gaels are riding a five-game...

Gaels clinch third with two wins

Written on February 7, 2012. Posted in Sports.

When Joely Christian-Macfarlane became the women’s volleyball head coach in 2007, she made outside hitters Becky Billings and Natalie Gray her first two official recruits. Last weekend, both women played the last OUA regular season games of their careers, beating the Western Mustangs 3-1 and the Windsor...

Gaels top Gee-Gees in comeback win

Written on January 31, 2012. Posted in Sports.

The Ottawa Gee-Gees were only one set away from leaving Kingston with their fourth-straight win over the women’s volleyball team on Friday night. But the Gaels rebounded in an exhilarating five-set win, jumping past the Gee-Gees in the OUA standings to take sole possession of second place with two...

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