Sports

<p>Bullying in the dressing room, the court or the playing field is always something a coach needs to keep an eye on, said St. Thomas women’s volleyball coach Don McKay. “We’ve had a setter who, if you didn’t do as she wanted you to do, you didn’t get the ball,” said McKay about a team [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Some athletes love getting into it with the crowd. For example, the Holland College men’s basketball team played STU at the beginning of the season. The game was rough and the fans were into it. A well-disciplined team would able to tune out the opposing team’s fans and focus the game. I guess no one [&hellip;]</p>

<p>The St. Thomas women&#8217;s basketball team struggled early on against the Mount Saint Vincent Mystics in Halifax Saturday night. The Tommies went down by sixteen in the second quarter, bring them close to what could have been their first loss of the season. &#8220;A little bit of fear set in,&#8221; said fifth year player Ashley [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Playing in the AUS all-star game at the beginning of November, Jonathan Groenheyde felt pretty good about his performance. And then he got the call. Groenheyde was selected to play on the Canadian national hockey team at 2013 Winter Universiade, the university world&#8217;s answer to the Olympics. &#8220;I&#8217;ve never represented my country on any level, [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Often times, people coach a sport because the game is their passion. For the new head coach of the women&#8217;s volleyball coach, it wasn&#8217;t passion for the sport, but his desire to coach that brought the STU alum to where he is today. &#8220;I went to Hartland, which is a basketball town, and wanted to [&hellip;]</p>

<p>The men&#8217;s basketball team grabbed their first win of the season against the Dal-AC Rams on Saturday afternoon. The Tommies started out slowly but soon got into the groove with sharp passes and well-executed plays. Both teams slowed down at the end of the second quarter, but by half time STU was up 42-24 over [&hellip;]</p>

<p>The St. Thomas women’s basketball team is giving back to the community. On Nov. 7, nine of the players spent an hour at George Street Middle School in Fredericton, helping with a fundraiser for the Best Buddies program at the school. Tommies coach Fred Connors said his daughter is a part of the program at [&hellip;]</p>

<p>The game that was invented by a Canadian is on his way back home. In 1891, James Naismith invented basketball. Fifty-five years later, the first National Basketball League (NBA) game was played in Toronto. But given that history, basketball never really took off here like it did in the United States. Since the beginning of [&hellip;]</p>

<p>A scoreless second half for Crandall University led the women&#8217;s basketball to a 103-7 victory in front of approximately 150 fans at their home opener on Sunday. The teams started off strong, clearly dominating the court with strong plays. At the end of 20 minutes, the Tommies were up 51-7. Crandall scored two points in [&hellip;]</p>

<p>You blinked and now it&#8217;s November. We all tell ourselves we&#8217;ll get active. It happens every school year. Before you know it, the wind is nipping at your exposed cheeks and you avoid going anywhere &#8211; especially the O&#8217;Keefe Centre. But winter doesn&#8217;t have to be all bad. Luckily, Fredericton has a pretty alright indoor [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Goaltender Alex St. Arnaud played his first full AUS game and helped the Tommies get their first home win on Saturday. They beat the Dalhousie Tigers 5-2 at the Lou Chabot Memorial Game. The annual game honours the memory of Lou Chabot, a STU hockey player who died of heart problems in 1990 when he [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Halloween is the best holiday. That&#8217;s just fact. If you&#8217;re reading this and you don&#8217;t get excited weeks before Oct. 31, I&#8217;m going to assume you also hate sleeping puppies and free food. Seriously, you&#8217;re a monster. And not the cool Halloween kind. Unfortunately, with great Halloweens come great responsibilities. You&#8217;ve either got to get [&hellip;]</p>

<p>MEN Five goals and a handful of penalties in the third period led to the men&#8217;s hockey team losing 7-2 to Acadia in their home opener on Friday. The game was tied at 2 going into the final 20 minutes and Acadia was on the powerplay. They scored to make it 3-2 only a minute [&hellip;]</p>

<p>The path that led Brittany Gilliss to the Tommies basketball team is far from simple. She&#8217;s played for a number of different teams at various levels, ranging from one of the biggest high schools in New Brunswick to one of the smallest. “The first time I ever touched a basketball was in fifth grade. My [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Manuel Barroeta has been an MMA fighter for less than a year, but he&#8217;s already throwing punches. &#8220;I went to Evolution [Fight and Fitness] and started training. Four weeks later, I told them I wanted to fight. I started sparring around three or four months. Most people wait about a year. I had my first [&hellip;]</p>

<p>The men&#8217;s hockey team has as many wins as losses for the first time in recent years after playing their first two games of the regular season this weekend. The Tommies headed to Acadia to play the Axemen on Friday night. The team maintained a 1-0 lead until the third, when they couldn&#8217;t keep out [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Twenty-eight student athletes from St. Thomas have been named CIS Academic All-Canadians for 2012-2013. The award is given to any student who has played on a varsity team for at least one year and has achieved an overall average of 80 per cent. STU has four varsity teams which compete in the CIS: men&#8217;s and [&hellip;]</p>

<p>The 2013 PING CCAA Golf National Championships took place in Quebec City last week, where STU&#8217;s golf team made its first ever appearance. The Tommies captured silver for the second consecutive year at the ACAA Championships in early October. Usually only the first place winner heads to compete nationally, but STU entered for a fill [&hellip;]</p>

<p>It took some time for the St. Thomas women&#8217;s basketball team to get going Friday night against Durham College. The game was not part of the 3rd Annual Ken Gould Tournament, but was the first chance fans had to see their Tommies play at home before the season starts next month. At the end of [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Growing up in Congo, Loi Esengi played a lot of soccer. Esengi wasn’t able to go to school. Every time her mother went to talk to the principal, he would just ignore her. Instead Esengi would have to do house chores, like walking five hours to get fire wood and 90 minutes for water. “After [&hellip;]</p>