This season, Queen’s rowing’s harbored an unwavering confidence—their results at the Canadian University Rowing Championships (CURC) last weekend were proof. 
It was a big weekend on the road for Queen’s, with eight teams featuring in varsity action across Ontario.
The Waterloo Warriors gave the men’s rugby team everything they had on Saturday, but it wasn’t enough to top the province’s only undefeated squad.
The Journal’s sports editors trade takes on whether weed should be a legal substance for athletes.

Sports in Brief

November 2, 2018
This week, women’s rugby player Sophie de Goede was named U Sports Rugby Player of the Year, seven Gaels soccer players received OUA All-Star honours, and the men’s basketball team managed to crack the top ten U Sports rankings for the first time since their 2007-08 season.
After finishing last season with an 11-12 record and losing their last four games, the men’s basketball team is ready to improve as they open their 2018-19 campaign. 
Things didn’t go as planned for Head Coach Steve Boyd’s cross country teams at the OUA Championships last Saturday. They went better.
Queen’s rowing is only comfortable in first place, and they proved it at the OUA championships last Friday.
For the fourth straight season, the women’s soccer team (9-3-5) is headed to the OUA Final Four.
In a stunning upset, the Nipissing Lakers cut the men’s soccer team’s season, defeating them 1–0 in the first round of the OUA playoffs Wednesday night.
Women’s cross country was the big winner for Queen’s this weekend, running away with OUA team gold as sisters Brogan and Branna MacDougall finished first and second.
While most students spent their long weekend at home, the women’s hockey team (4-2) stayed in Kingston, picking up two wins against the York Lions (1-2) and Brock Badgers (2-1).
When men’s hockey head coach Brett Gibson first ed the Gaels’ hockey program in 2006, he its he was a kid. With several program records, a nationally-ranked team, and now 150 regular-season wins under his belt—he knows he’s a man.
Before the football team (3-5) took the field on Saturday against the UOttawa Gee-Gee’s (6-2), their chances at making a playoff run looked bleak
The men’s and women’s cross country teams will be in action this weekend at the OUA Championships at Western University.
This year’s women’s rugby OUA championship felt like déjà vu.
After falling early in the playoffs last season, a new batch of young players may pick the women’s basketball team back up this season.

Sports in brief

October 24, 2018
The Journal’s sports editor breaks down the latest athletics news on campus.
While the men’s and women’s soccer teams finished their regular seasons, women’s hockey split their weekend series against Western and Windsor.
The men’s hockey team endured its first loss of the season and captured one win in back-to-back games this weekend.