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<p>The cross country team&#8217;s trip to PEI in September ended with controversy when head coach Alex Coffin allowed students to not wear seatbelts on the drive home. Athletics director Mike Eagles said he was extremely disappointed when he heard. &#8220;I was shocked and very disappointed to find that out. I just found it hard to [&hellip;]</p>

<p>When Andrew Case signed with the Toronto Blue Jays last weekend, the first call he made was to his mother and step-father in Saint John. The second call was to his dad in Fredericton. “I picked up the phone and he said, ‘Dad I’m a Blue Jay,’” says Paul Vautour. “I started crying.” Vautour attended [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Fredericton’s roller derby team is training on a weeknight for their next home game. Everyone knows their role: the players skate, the coaches develop strategies and the referees review the rules. The Daisy Cutters, the local team, prepares and practices. So do the derby widows. &#8220;The derby widows is a pretty exclusive club,&#8221; said Carlos [&hellip;]</p>

<p>It’s only been four months since Robert Johnson graduated from St. Thomas, but he&#8217;s already back and excited for the action. Johnson is the new commentator for Tommies hockey, replacing Randy Corey who had been the commentator for the last six years. “I think it’s great to stick with the school. I loved my time [&hellip;]</p>

<p>After two and a half years, the Bike Share program is still trying to promote fitness and tourism to STU residents. The Bike Share program allows students and faculty unlimited use of five school bicycles after paying an annual membership fee of $20. The bikes come with helmets and locks. The program isn&#8217;t new at [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Coming to university sucks. Yeah, you move out, and I guess you&#8217;re learning some life skills, but there&#8217;s also no one to stop you from eating a box of Reese Puffs and a Big Mac meal when you&#8217;re bored. Pounds are waiting behind the trees in the courtyard for when you&#8217;re most vulnerable. Luckily, you&#8217;ve [&hellip;]</p>

<p>After a disappointing season last year, the men&#8217;s hockey team is looking forward to a fresh start. The Tommies played their first exhibition game against UPEI on Thursday night, showing promise and energy from the start. There was consistency and focus from the players, constantly challenging UPEI and keeping a tight game. The team completed [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Soon St. Thomas students will be able to curl their stones and hurry hard with its very own curling club. Trish Henheffer is in her fourth year, and has finally gone through with her plans of bringing curling to the university. “I have always wanted to. I came to STU and noticed that they don’t [&hellip;]</p>

<p>A second place finish in the AUS last year has the women&#8217;s hockey team hungry for the top spot. The Lady Tommies played their first exhibition game of the season on Sunday, and the team proved it&#8217;s still going strong on last year&#8217;s momentum. The team was fairly dominant right from the start. The Lady [&hellip;]</p>

<p>A new series of fitness classes at STU are trying to promote a healthy and stress-free lifestyles for students. &#8220;It&#8217;s good to sit back and have a gentler approach to fitness. Everyone is over-stressed these days,&#8221; said Zsuzsanna Szabo-Nyarady, the course instructor. This is Szabo-Nyarady&#8217;s fifth year of teaching fitness classes at STU. She also [&hellip;]</p>

<p>On Friday night, I sat with 10,000 screaming Habs fans at the Colisée Pepsi in Quebec City. It wasn&#8217;t what I&#8217;d call ideal. Mostly because I&#8217;m a Hurricanes fan, and we were losing 6-0. I scooped up tickets to the preseason game as fast as my little fingers would type. But as I looked around [&hellip;]</p>

<p>The women&#8217;s soccer team is focusing on giving back to the community this season. The team is partnering with the Fredericton Homeless Shelter to collect donations and raise awareness of the homelessness issue in the city. &#8220;It&#8217;s important that we can give some help to those people who are in need,&#8221; said head coach Macky [&hellip;]</p>

<p>It&#8217;s going to be another building year for STU women’s rugby. Last year the team moved from the ACAA into the AUS, a league which includes much larger universities like UNB, UPEI, and Dalhousie. This change came on the heels of back-to-back championships in the ACAA. Last year was difficult, with the women ending their [&hellip;]</p>

<p>The paths in Odell Park were wet and muddy on Saturday, but that didn&#8217;t stop the first cross country meet of the AUS season. STU and UNB were the host schools, with five other universities and several independent runners joining in. The women took to the path first, running 5km in light drizzle. There weren&#8217;t [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Several injuries and a large portion of new recruits means the women&#8217;s soccer team is in for a tough year. Macky Singh, head coach of the STU women&#8217;s soccer team, said the large amount of incoming players is typical for his squad. &#8220;We&#8217;ve always been consistent with the number of players coming in and out,&#8221; Singh [&hellip;]</p>

<p>The breakdown of one of the two ice plants at the Grant Harvey Centre has STU hockey teams worried about the new facility. The ice plant, responsible for creating the frozen surface for one of the arenas, malfunctioned in July. It is now being repaired, but raises questions about the $15 million building. Athletics director [&hellip;]</p>

<p>The STU women’s soccer and rugby teams played their home openers this past weekend with very different results. The soccer team took on UNBSJ at home on Saturday, tying 1-1. The game started slow with UNBSJ scoring 19 minutes into the first half. The Tommies dominated after half time with many scoring opportunities. Team captain [&hellip;]</p>

<p>This is only the third year the STU cross country team has been competing in Canadian Interuniversity Sport, but they have already burned through one coach. Alex Coffin was hired earlier this summer after Scott Davis stepped down. The 45-year-old coach is originally from N.B. but has been all over the country for school and [&hellip;]</p>

<p>He did more than the impossible. He did more than a 143-day run on one leg. More than just 3339 kilometers of pain. More than a marathon of running every day from the Atlantic Ocean, into the wind, across the country and into Thunder Bay, Ont. Terry Fox ignited a nation full of hope, courage [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Former St. Thomas student and hockey player Pat Powers is getting a shot at his dream. “I always made it known to my friends that I kept in touch with here that it was a goal of mine to come back to Fredericton. When the opportunity came up, I jumped at it,” Powers said. Powers [&hellip;]</p>