Category: U SPORTS
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Analyzing the Laurentian Voyageurs 2023 roster
Jacob Smith The Laurentian Voyageurs women’s basketball team finished the 2022 season with a record of 9-13, fourth in the OUA East. Playing in the division of the 21-1 Queen’s Gaels, 19-3 Carleton Ravens and 18-4 Ottawa Gee-Gees, Laurentian found themselves scrapping for a playoff spot where they lost to the Gee-Gees in the first…
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Summer Pahl making her presence felt
Jacob Smith There are few things that get me as fired up as seeing someone who seemingly takes as much pride in the defensive side of the ball as they do the offensive side. When you get that player who brings the passion and toughness it can energize a whole team, and the Warriors have…
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Analyzing the 2023 McMaster Marauders roster
Jacob Smith It’s been no secret what the McMaster Marauders women’s basketball team have wanted to do going into games. They put up the most threes out of any team in the OUA and last year they were third in percentage. You know going into a game against the Marauders that they were going to…
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Analyzing the Guelph Gryphons 2023 roster
Jacob Smith Whether you call it rebuilding or retooling, the Guelph Gryphons women’s basketball team is going through some substantial changes this summer. After a 16-6 season that ended with a quarterfinal loss to the McMaster Marauders, the Gryphons are losing 4 leaders and there’s going to probably be an adjustment phase throughout the 2023-2024…
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Gaels relentless to 3-0 victory
Photo: Queen’s University Athletics Jacob Smith The fourth ranked Queen’s Gaels women’s soccer team travelled to Oshawa this afternoon for a match against the Ontario Tech Ridgebacks. Ontario Tech coming off a record 12-0 victory over the RMC Paladins, came in at 3-1 and the Gaels 3-0. Queen’s had won seven and lost eight of…
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Forecasting the Windsor Lancers
Jacob Smith Under head coach Chantal Vallée, the Windsor Lancers women’s basketball team went 12-10 last season with a playoff loss to the Brock Badgers at home. They’ve made the playoffs every year dating back to before their historic championship dynasty a decade ago, and this year the goal is the same in a division…
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Ravens repeat? Looking at their 2023-2024
Jacob Smith The Carleton Ravens women’s basketball team swept the banners last season, taking the OUA Critelli Cup and the Bronze Baby U SPORTS national championship back to Ottawa to hang on the wall beside their 2017-2018 championship. In a stacked OUA East, the Ravens pushed past the 1-loss Queen’s Gaels to defeat them in…
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Underdogs Part 4: Finding an Identity
Jacob Smith Underdogs is a story of Brock Women’s Basketball and the growth of a program through the ups and downs. Starting with the 2015-2016 OUA season, this series will look in-depth at each season with interviews and features of players and staff associated with the program. The 2017 season was a year of two…
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Underdogs Part 3: Adding an All-Star
Jacob Smith Underdogs is a story of Brock Women’s Basketball and the growth of a program through the ups and downs. Starting with the 2015-2016 OUA season, this series will look in-depth at each season with interviews and features of players and staff associated with the program. Her resume was stacked by the time she…
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Underdogs Part 2: Changes
Jacob Smith Underdogs is a story of Brock Women’s Basketball and the growth of a program through the ups and downs. Starting with the 2015-2016 OUA season, this series will look in-depth at each season with interviews and features of players and staff associated with the program. New coach, new staff, new group of players…
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