Sports

<p>In a thrilling display of skill and resilience, the St. Thomas University men&#8217;s volleyball team secured victory in the 2024 Atlantic Collegiate Athletic Association (ACAA) Championships, earning them a coveted spot in the Canadian Collegiate Athletic Association (CCAA) National Championships.  &#8220;It&#8217;s nice to see that the hard work paid off,&#8221; said Brenton Romanchuk, second-year outside [&hellip;]</p>

<p>What do Venus and Serena Williams, Devin and Jason McCourty and Henrik and Daniel Sedin all have in common? Not only are they siblings, but each pair of siblings has played alongside one another at one time throughout their professional careers.   This family dynamic can have its ups and downs, but it’s not just professional [&hellip;]</p>

<p>In just its first year of existence, the Professional Women’s Hockey League (PWHL) has already broken the attendance record for a women’s hockey game. On Feb. 16, 19,285 eager fans took in the Battle on Bay Street which saw PWHL Toronto blank PWHL Montréal 3-0 in front of the home crowd. For comparison, the previous [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Picture this: graduation rolls around, celebration is in the air, many years of late night studying, presentations, exams, sleepwalking through 8:30 a.m. classes and your degree is done. One of your life goals, working towards a degree, is complete. But what if your goal was something else entirely? What if it was lacing up the [&hellip;]</p>

<p>As midterms fill schedules and the winter reading break inches closer, the St. Thomas University teams are gearing up for the winter playoffs. Unlike last season, all five winter sports teams successfully punched their ticket to the playoffs, hoping to hoist the trophy in their respective sport when the season ends.  Skating into semifinals Currently, [&hellip;]</p>

<p>In 2023, the Canada Games Committee officially announced that New Brunswick would be the host for the 2029 Canada Summer Games. While the event may be five years away, the planning has already begun as Fredericton, Moncton and Saint John have been asked to consider their interest in hosting. The bidding process will open up [&hellip;]</p>

<p>On Saturday, Feb. 10, the 10th annual Guns and Hoses charity hockey game took place at the Willie O’Ree Place. During the game, representatives from the Fredericton Police Force took on those from the Fredericton Fire Department in a fun but intense game of hockey for charity.  Brady Atwater, a constable for the Fredericton Police [&hellip;]</p>

<p>It was an exciting weekend for St. Thomas University as the hockey and volleyball teams held home games in support of the Think Pink weekend, aiming to foster cancer awareness and raise funds for the Oncology Department at Horizon Health Network’s Dr. Everett Chalmers Regional Hospital in Fredericton. At the forefront of the cause stands [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Over the past few weeks, the St. Thomas University women’s hockey team held a raffle basket fundraiser, with all proceeds going to the Maddy Murphy Memorial Foundation (MM81). The draw for the baskets took place on Saturday, Feb. 10, when the team took on their cross-campus rivals, the UNB REDS.   The Maddy Murphy Memorial Foundation [&hellip;]</p>

<p>In October 2023, the St. Thomas University men&#8217;s soccer team played in the Atlantic Collegiate Athletic Association (ACAA) semifinals in Halifax, N.S., coming into the game with a 10-0-2 record during the regular season. The Tommies suffered a 3-0 defeat at the hands of the Mount Saint Vincent University Mystics, a team that they narrowly [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Everyone had their eyes on Super Bowl 58 in Las Vegas, watching the Kansas City Chiefs beat the San Francisco 49ers 25-22 in overtime. Whether you watch the game for the halftime show which featured Usher, the actual football, family tradition or Taylor Swift, the game did not disappoint.  All parties were satisfied. We got [&hellip;]</p>

<p>For Ted Braden, his journey to STU has not been in a straight line. Doing his undergrad at the University of Toronto, Braden didn’t even play varsity basketball until he started his Masters in physics at UNB.  He kept fit by playing for a tri-campus team, where the three different campuses (Scarborough, Mississauga and St. [&hellip;]</p>

<p>The week of Jan. 30, the St. Thomas University men&#8217;s basketball team moved up to third place in the Canadian Collegiate Athletic Association (CCAA) conference. A week later, they dropped slightly but remain in the CCAA top 10 and hold first place in the Atlantic Collegiate Athletic Association (ACAA).  The team&#8217;s remarkable achievement comes on [&hellip;]</p>

<p>From Feb. 1 to 3, Toronto hosted the annual National Hockey League (NHL) All-Star Weekend for the first time since 2000. This year included celebrity coaches such as Justin Bieber and Tate McRae, a revamped skills competition, a player draft and even the inaugural Professional Women&#8217;s Hockey League (PWHL) showcase. All-Star Thursday  All-Star Weekend began [&hellip;]</p>

<p>When Kelcey Bland graduated with a Bachelor’s degree in Kinesiology from the University of British Columbia (UBC), she could never have guessed that she would begin research that would take her to Australia and back to study the effect of exercise on cancer.  As a postdoctoral fellow at UBC’s Cancer Exercise and Physiotherapy Lab in [&hellip;]</p>

<p>On Sunday, Jan. 28, the Australian Open wrapped up in Melbourne, Australia and left no room for disappointment. The two-week-long tournament held women’s and men’s singles and doubles, mixed doubles, as well as a junior and wheelchair tournament.  In the wake of tennis being added as an official U SPORTS event, even tournaments taking place [&hellip;]</p>

<p>St. Thomas University women’s volleyball coach Don McKay will say goodbye to the Tommies at the end of this season, leaving behind an 11-year-old legacy.  An inductee of the New Brunswick Volleyball Hall of Fame, McKay graduated from STU in 1974. He returned in 2013 to take over the women’s volleyball team after Ed Welch [&hellip;]</p>

<p>On Jan. 20, the University of New Brunswick (UNB) REDS men’s hockey team picked up their 24th straight victory of the season against the University of Prince Edward Island Panthers, defeating their opponents 7-1.  But this victory felt different for UNB’s head coach Gardiner MacDougall, who picked up his 600th career U SPORTS win.  It’s [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Disclaimer: This article was written by Alec Wells, a student-athlete on the STU men’s soccer team. This is part of an ongoing partnership with JOUR 2033: Local Reporting, Global Media. When Mees Van Nouhuys made the tough decision to move from the Netherlands to Canada to play university soccer, he never dreamed he’d be the [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Playing one sport can be tiring enough, but for some, just playing one is not enough.  Ella Chambers is a first-year on the STU women’s hockey team, but before settling on hockey she played lacrosse, field hockey, flag football, golf, soccer, dance and softball. She said that playing so many different sports helped get her [&hellip;]</p>