VANCOUVER — It was a self-scheduled intervention, completely cosmetic in nature, but somehow Cole Keffer knew that his first real date with a barber’s scissors carried a much deeper meaning.
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Trinity Western Spartans leave their ‘legacy’ with title repeat
By Aaron Martin – Special to VarsityLetters.caUSPORTS GOLD MEDAL GAME – TWU 3 ALBERTA 1EDMONTON, AB – Don’t call them a dynasty.On Sunday evening, the no. 1-ranked Trinity Western Spartans claimed their second consecutive U Sports Men’s Volleyball National Championship, upending the host no.7-ranked Alberta Golden Bears in a high-flying 3-1 (25-20, 25-20, 27-29, 25-23) win in […]
UBC volleyball The Golden Girls (again): “Now, we’re all of a sudden on top…”
By Aaron Martin – Special to VarsityLetters.caUSPORTS GOLD MEDAL GAME – UBC 3, ALBERTA 1TORONTO, ON – A role player in the team’s national title run back in her freshman season in 2013, fifth-year outside hitter Danielle Brisebois took center stage in the national finals on Sunday afternoon, leading the no. 3-ranked UBC Thunderbirds women’s volleyball team […]
Thunderbirds medal in back-to-back years, picking up bronze
By Aaron Martin – Special to VarsityLetters.caNAPANEE, ON – Coming into the 2017 U Sports Women’s Hockey National Championships as the top seed before falling 1-0 to the McGill Martlets in yesterday’s semifinals, some onlookers posted that the UBC Thunderbirds would be hard-pressed to get up for the Bronze Medal game.
Quarter-century later, coach Beauchamp leads Douglas Royals back to CCAA nationals
NEW WESTMINSTER — Steve Beauchamp has been coaching basketball for so long now and made it such an ingrained part of his life that sooner or later, he was going to run into a season like this one.With the symbolism as rife as the crackling pages a family scrapbook, Beauchamp has not only returned to […]
SFU basketball: Weary Clan fall to Lancers, terrific season comes to an end in Sweet 16
There’s a song whose lyrics are all about being anchored down in Anchorage, Alaska, and on Monday night, the road-weary Simon Fraser Clan women’s basketball team could certainly relate.
Sweet 16 for SFU! Clan stun No. 1 seed Anchorage in Alaska: “You could here a pin drop…”
To Sophie Swant, the contrast over a span of a couple of hours Saturday night at the Alaska Airlines Center was incredible.
Adam Schriemer: No. 1 TWU’s super-setter beats odds as childhood burn survivor
LANGLEY — On the scariest day of Adam Schriemer’s life, doctors couldn’t guarantee his survival.
Simon Fraser women’s basketball puts on its dancing shoes, Clan makes NCAA D2 field
BURNABY — The Big Dance opened its arms Sunday for the Simon Fraser Clan women’s basketball team.
Jet-lagged no more, UBC middle Li making most of second chance
VANCOUVER — By all accounts, Maggie Li’s first attempt at trying to secure a roster spot on the UBC Thunderbirds volleyball team was like one of those tragic-comic auditions on American Idol.