The University and A&R received dozens of emails from alumni expressing concern over the decision to fire cross country coach Steve Boyd. The alumni’s concerns appear to have gone unanswered.
The Sports Law and Strategy Group (SLSG) held two town halls, on March 23 and 24, designed to communicate the preliminary findings of their departmental review concerning Queen’s Athletics and Recreation (A&R).
This year, the Queen’s men’s hockey team decided to take the spirit of Black History Month beyond February and make it an active movement—a change they’re pushing into action.
Our previous fantasy football series against the Western Gazette sports section was such a hit, we figured we should face off again. In this series, our bout centres around one of the oldest, most sacred traditions in North American sport: the March Madness bracket.
On March 13, the University of Toronto’s Sports and Entertainment Law Society (SELS) held its ninth annual “Hockey Arbitration Competition of Canada” (HACC) over Zoom. Six students from the Queen’s Faculty of Law participated.
In the ninth period of a game that seemed like it may never end, the former women’s hockey centre and current assistant coach, Morgan McHaffie, dove to the Guelph net for a rebound.
When Kwame Osei gathers up his receivers on the football field, his presence is compelling. When he talks, they listen. His ability to lead coupled with his football acumen may present the image that, for him, becoming a coach was a given.But it wasn’t. He’s had a long hill to climb before he became a coach for men’s and women’s football.
While most sports have hit a lull, the Queen’s eSports Association (QEA) has been competing fervently.This past weekend, QEA’s Rocket League team played in the first round of playoffs, losing to the University of Ottawa in their final best-of-five match, but ultimately moving on to the next round, albeit as the lowest seed.
When he was seven years old and new to the country, Hugh Fraser had the Canadian right of age of experiencing his first snowfall. 17 years later, he was entering Montreal’s Olympic stadium for the 1976 summer games donning red and white. He was just getting started.
For Jock Climie, self-congratulation isn’t really a thing.Even though he boasts a laundry list of accomplishments transcending three professions, the length of which would require the lungs of an Olympic swimmer to speak in one breath, he doesn’t pat himself on the back for them. And he never will.
On Feb. 2, the Queen’s chapter of the Autism Mentorship Program (AMP) launched the first iteration of its “Learn to Play” video series on Feb. 2, featuring varsity athletes demonstrating skills and exercises with hopes of providing online resources to youth on the spectrum in the local community.
Although sports often rely on physical prowess, it’s long been recognized that perhaps the determining factor in a player’s performance comes down to their state of mind. Even 70 years ago, Yankee’s hall of fame catcher Yogi Berra delivered one of his famous malapropisms—known endearingly as ‘Yogi-isms’—stating that “Baseball is 90 percent mental. The other half is physical.”
When most people think of recreational clubs, they think of the staples: archery, gymnastics, eSports—maybe even Quidditch.They rarely think of ancient forms of martial art.
