Sports

<p>The STU women’s hockey team has big dreams this year. With seven new players on the team it’s a bit of a shift in the core group. The Tommies won their season opener against Université de Moncton 4-2, but it doesn’t mean they can slack off in practice. “There were some aspects of the game [&hellip;]</p>

<p>The St. Thomas men’s soccer team made their playoff hopes a lot harder this weekend losing two key games to the UNBSJ Seawolves 2-1 and 1-0 in ACAA soccer action. The playoffs are now wide open going into the seasons last weekend. The Tommies are currently 2-3-3 on the season in 5th place with nine [&hellip;]</p>

<p>St. Thomas University’s Lady Tommies opened the hockey season in style. Gangam Style that is. The Tommies beat Université de Moncton 4-2 at their snazzy new home at the Grant Harvey Centre on Saturday afternoon. With all the new players to the team and the collective energy level, it wasn’t hard to see why second [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Make it 32 and counting. The St.Thomas Tommies lost for the 32nd straight time against the University of New Brunswick Varsity Reds Friday night as they were beaten 5-2 by the defending Atlantic University Sport champions. “I thought it was terrible,” Tommies head coach Troy Ryan said of his team’s performance. “We played with no [&hellip;]</p>

<p>When the final whistle blew in last year&#8217;s ACAA Women&#8217;s rugby championship game, STU was on the right side of over a 30 point win. Within the next week coach Sherry Doiron revealed to the team they were to jump up a level the next season and compete in the CIS league against teams from [&hellip;]</p>

<p>The more you complicate rowing the harder it is. For Rob Alexander it’s intuitive. Sliding forward and back in his seat with the three other men he calls his team. “It’s exhilarating. It’s never the same; every day is a new challenge. It’s really intense” said Alexander. Now in his fourth year at St. Thomas [&hellip;]</p>

<p>It’s a Monday afternoon practice for the St. Thomas Tommies, and after a two-day break, the dressing room is buzzing when a young man enters the room with a gear bag over his shoulder. He sits down quietly and starts to dress. Players wonder who is he or what he is doing here, but they [&hellip;]</p>

<p>It poured at the St Francis Xavier meet this Saturday, but the STU cross country team took it in stride. Both men’s and women’s teams secured seventh-place finishes but there were some standout performances by individual team members. Men’s team captain Nathan Paton had nothing but good things to say about his teammates. This year’s [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Standing on the tee box of the second hole at the Algonquin Golf Club in St. Andrews, New Brunswick, can be quite daunting. There’s a slight dogleg right with trees blocking any chance of hitting a draw shot and a big pond sitting on the right side of the fairway ready to swallow any loose [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Grant Harvey Centre users won’t be dropped off next to the rink by Fredericton Transit this year. The Grant Harvey Centre is set to open on September, 28th but some Frederictonians will have the inconvenience of walking a small distance from the nearest bus stop to get to the arena. The closest stop users will [&hellip;]</p>

<p>There have been eight days of classes at STU and I have already started making to-do lists. I’m not sure if it’s because fourth year is unusually busy or if I’m just being overzealous about finishing assignments. Either way, the work has to be done. Now that both basketball and classes are in full swing [&hellip;]</p>

<p>It’s the 2011 championship game for ACAA women’s rugby. STU secures the title with only a few minutes to spare. They show no signs of slowing. They run even faster than before, they take even harder hits. Their excitement builds as the minutes trickle away. Amanda Steeves looks around at the fans that showed up [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Red Wings fan, world traveller and future sports businessman. This is how I’ve summarized Dylan Hughes in my mind after our half hour interview. A fourth-year student at St. Thomas University, Hughes is excited to be back at STU this year. He spent last spring studying economics on an exchange, after a suggestion from one [&hellip;]</p>

<p>For most university students, summer is a time to kick back, relax, and enjoy the sunshine. There are trips to be planned, parties to attend, and a real sense of freedom from everything university-related. For a student-athlete that kind of summer is more like love at first sight- you know it could happen, but you [&hellip;]</p>

<p>It’s been seven years in waiting, but St. Thomas University finally has its mascot back; Tommy the Tom Cat. Since losing the famed mascot in 2005, Nicole Pozer, who is Vice President of Student Life, decided it was time to revive him. “We used to have a Tom Cat mascot, but he sadly fell apart [&hellip;]</p>

<p>The AQ&#8217;s Matt Tidcombe sat down with men’s hockey head coach Troy Ryan to talk about his year at STU.  Overall, how did you find your first season in charge? I think this year’s been interesting. I was hired very late, came into Fredericton and really by that time&#8230;all other teams had pretty much done its [&hellip;]</p>

<p>This is my last column, and if there is one thing I hope people take away from it, it’s that you can achieve anything if you set goals. Pick a goal for your health or fitness level, and decide when you want to achieve it by. Then all you have to do is plan how [&hellip;]</p>

<p>On Monday, April 4, 2011, the Butler Bulldogs and Connecticut Huskies played a championship basketball game that would have made John Wooden have an epileptic seizure if he were alive. After the two teams drained a percentage of shots (26 per cent) that you may be expected to be made by a couple of zombies [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Matt Eagles, captain of St. Thomas University’s men’s hockey team, got news he never expected to hear from his doctor last week. He walked into Dr. JoAnne Savoie’s office and sat down to go over the results of his test. She told him his hockey career was over. Because of the concussions he’s had, she [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Mayor Brad Woodside hopes people understand why he wasn’t around much this weekend. He blames it on his love for hockey. For the second consecutive year, the Canadian Interuniversity Sport men’s hockey championship was hosted by the University of New Brunswick right here in Fredericton. And if you were looking for the mayor, he was [&hellip;]</p>