Faye Pang
Women’s Lacrosse
Faye Pang, a third-year Commerce student, finished her 2005 women’s lacrosse campaign with a flurry of goals last weekend. In the OUA semifinal, the Golden Gaels defeated the Laurier Golden Hawks handily 11-4, with three of those goals netted by Pang.
The Gaels then concluded their season in the OUA final, losing their first game of the year 8-7 in overtime. Pang scored three goals in the game, but said she was disappointed with the result.
“It was a tough loss for the team,” she said. “We battled all the way through the game.”
The Gaels finished the season with a silver medal in the OUA championships.
“Our goal this year was to make a run at the championship,” Pang said. “I was proud of the way we played.”
Pang, a first-team OUA all-star this year, regained the form that made her a first-team all-star two years ago. However, not only did she improve as an individual player, the team improved from missing the playoffs last year to a nearly perfect season.
“We were one goal away from perfection,” Pang said. “Our team is a really good story.”
The Gaels’ improvement was helped along by Pang’s drive to get better and to help the team.
“I want to go out and improve everyday like any athlete,” she said.
Pang attributes her success to the players around her, because even though she is an aggressive defender and good goal scorer, the team cannot win solely on the shoulders of a few players.
Pang said the team’s success also magnified as the team bonded.
“I would go out and say that our team is the closest in the OUA,” she said. “Our team chemistry helped us do really well.”
Pang still has one season left in her lacrosse career but will miss the one that just ended.
“It was an amazing season,” she said. “It was great getting to know the girls.”
Morgan Jarvis
Men’s Rowing
Queen’s rowing veteran Morgan Jarvis, in his first year of graduate work in pathology, returned to the water this year for the Gaels pas several opportunities to row elsewhere.
Jarvis won a gold and bronze medal at last week’s OUA championships in both the lightweight single and the heavyweight eight. He could have been rowing this year for either the Canadian national team in Victoria or for the University of Cambridge in England. Instead, he returned to Queen’s to do graduate work citing a lack of graduate funding at Cambridge when he was accepted.
Jarvis also decided against training with the national team.
“It was not a positive environment,” he said.
Jarvis, a bronze medalist for Canada at the U23 world championships, credits his teammates with making the team a success. He said last week’s trip to the OUAs was a total team effort.
“I was pleased with the eight—we turned it a notch up from our training,” he said. “It was a personal best in of crew performance and we pushed ourselves as hard as we could.” Jarvis said he is enthusiastic about the team’s chances in Victoria this weekend at the national championships and is very happy with the way the team is doing.
“I am loving Queen’s rowing,” he said. “This is the way it is supposed to be.”
The Gaels hope to excel in Victoria with new combinations in the boat, including Jarvis, Simon Gowdy, Dave Carnegie and Bill York in the light four. Jarvis has a bright future in rowing, but said he wants his future to include some of his teammates.
“Queen’s rowing is a great environment—it is where my friends are,” he said. “I would love to be in a crew with Queen’s guys for the national team next summer in Victoria. I cannot see myself in the Olympics without the Queen’s guys—that is when I would really enjoy it.”
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