Tag: OUA
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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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Analyzing the current state of the Brock Badgers
Jacob Smith The Brock Badgers made back-to-back OUA championships in the 2019 and 2021 season taking a silver in 2021 and a OUA championship and national silver in 2020. Since the constant battles of Brock and TMU, other powers have risen to the top and Brock is left to find a new identity under new…
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Analyzing the current state of the Queen’s Gaels
Jacob Smith Last year there were two women’s basketball teams who stood above them all, and they met in the OUA and national championship final. The Carleton Ravens finished second in the OUA East division and won the OUA and the national championship, and the team that finished first in the division and met them…
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Analyzing the current state of the Western Mustangs
Jacob Smith There’s been headlines in what you would call the OUA “transfer window” which is the first three months of the offseason, and two major moves surround the team in London, the Western Mustangs. Their star is moving on to continue her education in the capital and they’re gaining a veteran who has chosen…
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Represent the North; Kayla putting on for her city
Jacob Smith Kayla Deschatelets is an assistant coach with the Laurentian Voyageurs women’s basketball program under head coach Jason Hurley, and her journey to get there is one of unrelenting passion and desire to maintain the highest standard. The Start In Elementary School, Kayla’s basketball team was held for strictly grade seven and eight, but…
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Jenneke Pilling the all-around leader
Jacob Smith Jenneke Pilling came to Brock Women’s Basketball when coach Rao first started his tenure as head coach, and now she is an OUA champ, U SPORTS silver medalist and looking to build on it alongside coach Rao as the 2021 OUA season gets underway in November. The Windsor transfer 5th year guard has…
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Kali Pocrnic Leads Ravens On and Off The Court
Jacob Smith The Carleton Ravens have evolved as a team ever since their 2017 undefeated season, and specifically over the last two years, the chemistry of the group of young players that came in during 2018 and 2019 has grown to a point where its visible not only off the court but off the court.…
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