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s always, a great deal of thought went into choosing the cover photo for this edition of Blue and Gold. We decided on an action shot of fifth-year guard Nathan Yu, taken during the gold medal final of the World University Games last month in Shenzhen, China. Playing under UBC head coach Kevin Hanson, Nathan and his team mates defeated the defending champions from Serbia in pool play, but had to settle for silver medals after a re-match against Serbia in the final. UBC swimmer Tera van Beilen also stood out for Canada at Universiade, with silver medals in 50 and 100 metre breaststroke. Our congratulations go out to Nathan, Kevin, Tera and the 19 other UBC athletes, coaches, staff and alumni who represented our country and university in Shenzhen.

The feature story in this edition focuses upon three former Thunderbird athletes who have gone on to their own form of achievement in international sport. Tricia Smith, John Mills and Tanya Foley have joined a growing list of UBC graduates who have played prominent roles within Canada’s sport community and who are now at the top of their games as leaders in national and international sport administration and governance. By way of this feature, we salute their contributions and thank them for the extraordinary work they are doing in support of high performance sport.

Once again, there is news regarding sport infrastructure development on campus. I am pleased to report that an outstanding new indoor tennis centre was completed just weeks ago in TP. The facility features eight new indoor courts and is now open for use by all members of the campus

community. Thanks to the generosity of former UBC and national rugby team standout Gerald McGavin, construction will soon begin on the new Gerald McGavin UBC Rugby Centre. Located south of the Doug Mitchell Thunderbird Sports Centre, the new rugby centre will be home to UBC’s men’s and women’s teams, complete with shower and locker rooms for home and visiting teams, a new natural turf field and spectator seating area.

There is also news concerning recent coaching appointments.

We are pleased to welcome former CIS women’s hockey MVP and Toronto Varsity Blues assistant coach Jen Rawson as the Thunderbirds’ new head coach, as well as former assistant swim coach Steve Price, who has returned to take over as head coach for both the UBC Thunderbirds and Pacific Dolphins swim club. A familiar face is also returning to the men’s basketball program with the appointment of former All-Canadian and Canada West MVP Casey Archibald as the team’s full-time assistant coach. Meanwhile Matt Lebourdais, a former Canada West All-star and All Canadian with UBC’s men’s volleyball team will also return to War Memorial Gym this fall as an assistant coach.

Finally, I want you to know that there is another reason we settled on Nathan for the cover shot. Earlier this summer, while balancing summer employment and hopes of making Canada’s Universiade team, he joined nine other UBC student-athletes in a Habitat for Humanity project in El Salvador, one led by basketball alumnus Bill Humphries.

There is an inspirational first-hand account written by one of the participants on page 6. I’m confident that when you read their story, and all the other news concerning our studentathletes, you’ll again be reminded why they need and deserve all the support we can provide.

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n 2008, after years of background preparation, UBC Athletics and Recreation recommended to the UBC Executive that UBC Vancouver should move its competitive sports programs from Canadian Interuniversity Sport (CIS) and the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) into the National Collegiate Athletics Association (NCAA) Division II. A Review Committee was subsequently formed which undertook extensive public and campus consultations over a two-year period, and received close to 500 written submissions, all of which revealed a tremendous diversity of opinion at all levels.

Last April, I announced that the University of British Columbia, after weighing options in a very thorough process, would for the time being both honour and seek to build upon our grand tradition of participation in CIS. Honour – because UBC has a proud history within CIS as both a founding member and highly successful competitor. Build upon – because it must be said that the status quo is not acceptable.

In re-affirming our membership in CIS, we also committed to driving change. Athletic competition amongst institutions that are similarly committed to athletic and academic excellence, including attracting and retaining more top Canadian student-athletes, is of paramount importance, and I believe that a re-invigorated CIS is in UBC’s best interests, and the best interests of our diverse community.

I want to acknowledge the very principled stand that some people – and I include my colleague Bob Philip – have taken in favour of NCAA membership. I realize that my decision not to pursue membership in the NCAA Division II came as a disappointment for some loyal UBC Thunderbird supporters, especially after such a long process of consultation and deliberation. In bringing forward the NCAA option, however, I am convinced that Bob and all those who supported that view have succeeded in securing a better future for student

athletes, not just here at UBC, but across Canada as well.

As a first step toward driving change, the presidents of all CIS universities unanimously endorsed a proposal for new governance arrangements and more active oversight of CIS. I am pleased to report that at its June AGM, CIS voted to accept this proposal. At the same time, I am disappointed to note that a recommendation by the presidents of five of the larger universities in the Canada West conference urging CIS to institute a two-tiered system of competition beginning in 2012-13 did not appear on the AGM agenda, and has yet to be formally considered.

This has not diminished the resolve of Canada West member universities to work together to invoke significant reforms within CIS - reforms that must include enhancing scholarship opportunities to offer Canadian student athletes the kind of competitive opportunities they need and deserve. Scholarship reform requires more flexibility in how scholarships can be awarded within teams, while maintaining an overall cap. UBC’s goal has never been to launch an unproductive battle of the scholarships amongst sister universities.

To that end, with the collaboration of Canada West, in July I convened an inaugural meeting of a representative committee of Western Canadian university presidents and athletic directors to further explore the scholarship issue and other areas of potential change, as well as possible strategies for introducing formal reform proposals at the national level. A subsequent meeting at the end of August was highly encouraging and productive. Additional meetings will be held in the near future, after which I shall endeavour to update you on outcomes.

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his past May, a group of ten UBC student athletes, one basketball coach and UBC basketball alumnus Bill Humphries met at an unmarked bus stop in Vancouver ready to embark on a journey to El Salvador where they naively assumed that they would simply be building houses. I was lucky enough of be one of the ten athletes that got the opportunity to participate in this unique adventure. Before we even boarded our first flight we ran into a snag; where would we watch the Canucks playoff game? Thankfully some of our tech savvy athletes were able to pull up the game on a computer so we could all crowd around and cheer on our team, and in that moment our own special Habitat for Humanity team was born.

Once the basketball and volleyball players unfurled their lanky limbs from the tight cabin of the airplanes and we all planted our feet on firm El Salvadorian dirt, the heat and humidity hit us like a brick. It was an omen of what was to come, as our next two weeks were spent moving bricks, painting, mixing cement, sanding floors, making rebar, digging foundations and manually stomping sidewalks for five individual houses in immense heat. We were driven down winding roads, through the bustling city and then out to the countryside, passing toddlers carrying machetes and men leading their cows to pasture before arriving in the city of San Sebastian where we were staying.

The next morning, after a quick typical breakfast of fried plantains and pureed beans, we loaded the bus and ventured up to the houses we were going to be working on. We pulled up to a building lot where Grandma Paola was waiting to welcome us with an immense hug. After introductions to our

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ever-needed translator Ron as well as each house’s resident mason and four generations of family members we would be working with side by side, we split up and got our hands dirty. We quickly learned to appreciate the tools we in North America take for granted, seeing as the most sophisticated piece of equipment we had was a shovel, thus making even the simplest work tiring. We passed the time singing and laughing especially when an impromptu wheelbarrow race or soccer game would break out between the houses. Other highlights included swimming at the local freshwater pool, having a cooking lesson with the local families, enjoying the mangoes picked fresh from the trees by the children and visiting a new Habitat community that was being built for flood victims. It felt good to play a bit of soccer with them and leave behind some supplies we had collected on their behalf.

Our last day came all too soon and although we parted ways at the airport to embark on our own adventures, the legacy of this inaugural trip is a newfound unity within the athletic department. We can’t adequately express our gratitude towards Bill Humphries for envisioning and sponsoring the entire project. Bill’s intention was to inspire a new generation of giving, a goal he achieved with the added spin-off of strengthening the “UBC Athletics Family” identity. We came away with not only a new found knowledge of another country and culture, but we also developed an appreciation of our own UBC Athletics community, and have forged new bonds within it. ;

Diane Rizzardo is a fifth year Kinesiology student and a member of the Thunderbirds women’s soccer team.

LockerRoom Grid Birds a Contender in Early Season UBC football coach Shawn Olson appeared upbeat through the 2011 training camp, saying that the team was “much further ahead in terms of our planning compared to last year.”

So far, his optimism appears to have been justified, as the Thunderbirds travelled to Mosaic Stadium in Regina to kick off the regular season on September 2 and defeated the CIS No. 6 Regina Rams 21-10, snapping a four-game losing streak against the Rams that dated back to 2007. Returning quarterback Billy Greene was brilliant in the opener. On the Thunderbirds’ opening drive, the fourth-year Arts student found receiver Jordan Grieve in stride down the middle of the field for a 63-yard touchdown completion. By the end of the contest, Greene had completed 15 of 26 passes for 262 yards and two touchdowns and also led UBC with 38 rushing yards.

Grieve led UBC receivers with three catches for 109 yards.

The Thunderbirds hit the road again the following week and came within a hair’s breadth of a repeat performance against the CIS no. 4 ranked Calgary Dinos. Greene logged another impressive performance by completing 29 of 43 passes for 255 yards and three touchdowns, and rushing for 102 yards in a 30-25 loss. The September 17 home opener erased any lingering doubts that the Thunderbirds are again a contender in CIS football as they defeated Alberta 40-30.

Just under 100 players turned out for training camp in August, with at least 40 making their first appearance at UBC. One area that won’t feature as many new faces is on offence, where the T-Birds have returned eight starters from 2010, including Greene and running back Dave Boyd.

On the defensive side of the ball, there are a few significant turnovers in personnel as well as a slight change in scheme that the coaching staff addressed during camp. “There’s a lot more transition on the defensive side of the ball,” said Olson at the beginning of training. “We need to figure out who are linebackers are after graduating a few key guys. We have some returnees but also some younger guys who are ready to contribute. We’ll be shuffling the deck along the line as well.”

The 2011 season already has a historical footnote attached to it, at least for UBC Thunderbird fans, as this will be the first year in which the Vanier Cup game will be played in Vancouver. The 47th Vanier Cup is slated for the newly renovated BC Place on Friday, November 25, followed by the 99th Grey Cup on Sunday, November 27, thanks to a partnership between CIS, the CFL, MRX and Associates, and the 2011 Grey Cup Festival.

Soccer Birds Undefeated in Opening Weekend Unanimously chosen as the top team in the pre-season Canada West Athletics Men’s Soccer Coaches’ Poll, the Thunderbirds made it official that they will be the team to beat in the 2011 campaign as they kicked off regular season play by shutting out the visiting Victoria Vikes, the number two pre-season ranked squad, by a score of 4-0 on September 9th at Thunderbird Park. It was an auspicious start for freshman

mid-fielder Sean Haley who scored a pair of goals his regular season debut as a Thunderbird. Marco Visintin capitalized on two penalty kick chances in the second half to wrap up a high-scoring opening weekend for the ‘Birds with a 4-2 win over the Fraser Valley Cascades the following night.

The team returns All-Canadian defender Jason Gill and 2010 CIS Championship all-star Gagan Dosanjh, along with four other Canada West all-stars as they try to capture the CIS title in 2011. The team’s most notable newcomer, Kent O’Connor is a 24-year-old former member of Canada’s U-20 National team, and has playing experience with German and Danish clubs as well as one appearance with Toronto FC. The Thunderbirds finished with an overall record of 8-3-3 in 2010, after losing 1-0 to the York Lions in the CIS championship final.

On the women’s side, the Thunderbirds opened their 2011 season in Langley on September 10 with a 1-0 win over Trinity Western, the top ranked team in the Canada West pre-season poll. The game marked the beginning of the second season for UBC coach Mark Rogers. Forwards Janine Frazao and Rachel Sawer, who scored the lone goal for the CIS no. 6 ranked Thunderbirds in the opener, will lead the charge up front in 2011 and have been a dangerous scoring duo since their rookie campaigns. Frazao recorded eight goals last season, third-best in the Canada West conference. UBC’s midfield will have to deal with the departure of leaders Caitlin Davie and Carmen Lindsay, but fifth-year All-Stars Lisa Furutani and Natalie Hirayama head up a young, talented group.

Captain Kelly Cook and Alisha Penev are the returning stars on defence, which recorded seven shutouts in 19 regular season and playoff games. Rookies Emily Wilson and Vancouver Whitecaps FC prospect Ally Williamson will battle for a starting job in goal. Williamson got the nod in the game in Langley and made nine saves to record her first clean sheet in CIS play.

Field Hockey Birds Aim for Return to CIS Final UBC may have more CIS national women’s field hockey titles to its credit than any other CIS member institution, but that doesn’t diminish the Thunderbirds drive to return to the national championship tournament, especially after the one-goal loss they suffered to the Toronto Varsity Blues in the 2010 national championship final. This year’s CIS Championship tournament will be held in Calgary, but the road to get there begins in Edmonton against the Alberta Pandas on September 17 and resumes at home in back-to-back weekends at Wright Field. Hash Kanjee, now in his 20th season as UBC head coach, will guide his team in the conference home opening series September 24 and 25 against Calgary, followed by a two-game stand against perennial cross-strait rival Victoria Vikes October 1 and 2.

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LockerRoom Silver medal finish for Hanson-coached team a Highlight for Canada at 26th Universiade The 26th World University Games (Universiade) wrapped up at the end of August in Shenzhen, China with Canada’s men’s basketball team coming ever so close to registering its first gold medal finish in 28 years after losing 68-55 to Serbia in the championship final. Consisting entirely of CIS athletes and coached by UBC’s own Kevin Hanson, the Canadian team stunned the heavily favoured defending champions from Serbia in the second game of pool play by handing them their first loss in the last two World University Games. Led by UBC point guard Nathan Yu and 2011 CIS Player of the Year Tyson Hinz (Carleton), Canada finished second in its pool and met Romania in the quarter final, winning 71-58. Next up for Canada was a semi-final against the Lithuanians, who had just ended the gold medal dreams of the USA entry, which consisted entirely of NCAA Division I players. In what was clearly the highlight of the tournament, Hanson’s scrappy CIS players advanced to the gold medal final with a convincing 83-68 win in front of a crowd of 10,000. “It’s been an unbelievable journey,” said Hanson in the aftermath of the loss in the final. “These players have been just tremendous.

With only four days to work together before this tournament started, I don’t think a lot of people back home thought we would make it this far. This is a gutsy group of guys and I am extremely proud.”

Yu tied Hinz with a 14-point performance in the final and made a solid contribution for Canada throughout the tournament. Although disappointed with the eventual outcome, he was clearly moved by the experience to play in front of enormous crowds in a city less than an hour from his father’s birthplace. “I’m proud to have been given this opportunity and I think our performance here speaks volumes about CIS basketball,” said the 23-year-old Arts student.

Shortly after his return from Shenzhen, he put in a career-best performance, shooting the lights out in a thrilling 98-85 overtime win in pre-season play over NCAA Division I Santa Clara Broncos, whose graduates include a chap from Victoria named Steve Nash. Nathan clicked for 38 points, three assists and two steals in a gruelling 37 minutes of play including the overtime frame, putting a cinch on his role as point guard in the upcoming campaign.

UBC swimmer Tera Van Beilen was another of the 17 current and former UBC Thunderbirds taking part in the games.

Guided by newly appointed UBC head coach Steve Price, Tara captured silver medals in 50 and 100 metre breaststroke.

Other UBC representatives who made the trek to China were Shanice Marcelle, Lisa Barclay and Blair Bann (volleyball); Liz Gleadle, Inaki Gomez and Evan Dunfee (Athletics); Jason Gill, Gagan Dosanjh, Janine Frazao and Jessica Briker (soccer); Heather MacLean and Hanna Pierse (swimming), and David Sheman, Jack Wesche and Kylie Barros (golf).

Faces old and new join T-Bird coaching staff UBC Athletics and Recreation recently announced the hiring of Jen Rawson as head coach of the women’s hockey program

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Left, Thunderbird guard Nathan Yu in the gold medal final of the World University Games in Shenzhen, China. Above, UBC head coach Kevin Hanson coached Canada to a silver medal finish.

to replace Nancy Wilson who stepped down in May. Jen joined the University of Toronto Varsity Blues coaching staff in 2005 and has served as an assistant coach with her alma mater since that time. A standout on the ice for Toronto from 1996 to 2001, she captained the Varsity Blues to the 2001 CIS Championship where she earned tournament MVP honours.

She was also recognized as an All-Canadian, OUA all-star, Academic All-Canadian, and the 2001 OUA Athlete of the Year (BLG Awards finalist) during her time with the Blues. U of T captured three OUA titles (1996, ‘99, ‘01) during her playing career.

In conjunction with the Pacific Dolphins Swim Association, the UBC Athletic Department also recently announced that Steve Price has been hired as the Head Coach for both the UBC Thunderbirds varsity team and Pacific Dolphins swim club. The Vancouver native comes to UBC following a successful stint with the Edmonton Keyano Swim Club where he had been head coach and director of swimming since 2007.

It will be a homecoming of sorts for Price who returns to the program where he served as senior coach from 1998 to 2006 and is looking forward to preparing the swimmers for the run up to the Olympic Games next year in London.

A familiar face is returning to the UBC Thunderbirds men’s basketball program with the announcement that former All-Canadian and Canada West MVP Casey Archibald has been hired as the team’s full-time assistant coach. He replaces Randy Nohr who stepped down in April to pursue a career in his family’s business. Archibald, who played five seasons with the Thunderbirds from 2002-03 until 2006-07, ranks second all-time in UBC scoring behind J.D. Jackson with 3,024 points. A two-time first-team All-Canadian and Canada West MVP (2006, ‘07), Archibald was honoured as a Canada West all-star in each of his five seasons at UBC - three times on the first-team (2004, ‘06, ‘07), once on the second (2005), and once on the rookie squad (2003). He was also the 2007 winner of UBC’s Bobby Gaul Memorial Trophy, as the school’s top graduating male student-athlete.

A familiar face has also returned to take over the role as the full-time assistant coach with the UBC Thunderbirds men’s volleyball program. Former All-Canadian Matt Lebourdais has been hired by UBC head coach Richard Schick to take over from recently departed Chris Densmore. Lebourdais spent three seasons (2005-06, ‘06-07, ‘07-08) with the T-Birds after transferring from the College of the Rockies. He was named a first-team Canada West all-star and a second-team All-Canadian during his final tour of duty in 2007-08. During his UBC career, the T-Birds compiled a 38-18 record in conference play and went to a pair of CIS Championships.

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Left, UBC volleyball captain and BLG Awards finalist Shanice Marcelle acknowledges an admiring crowd with TSN’s Lisa Bowes. Right, CFL Ironman Leo Groenewegen and former Thunderbirds coach Frank Smith joined 27 other members of the 1986 Vanier Cup championship team at the home opener September 17.

A total of 29 members of the 1986 Thunderbirds football team, which is closing in on the 25th anniversary of their unforgettable Vanier Cup victory over Western Ontario, were on hand at the September 17 football home opener as honoured guests of the UBC Athletic Department. CFL Ironman Leo Groenewegen and head coach Frank Smith were among those in attendance. The Vanier Cup itself made a surprise visit to Thunderbird Stadium on the day. The Holy Grail of CIS football will be awarded to the 2011 CIS champions at BC Place Stadium November 25, marking the first time the Vanier Cup game will be played in Vancouver.

Dan Smith, Doug Mitchell and other active members of the Thunderbirds Football Association have a big week planned for Vancouver’s inaugural Vanier Cup game, beginning with a reunion and cocktail reception on November 23 for all members of UBC’s past national championship teams, and any other UBC football alumni, family and friends. The event will be held at the BC Sports Hall of Fame in the newly renovated BC Place stadium. Advance tickets are recommended at a cost of $50 and can be obtained from Lindsey Smith at Lindsey@ubcfootball.com. The TFA is also proud to present the Glen Suitor Football College Wenesday, November 23 at Richmond Olympic Oval. The all-day clinic promises to be a superb introduction to CIS football for kids in grade 8-10 and features many former CIS All Canadians and CFL luminaries including Matt Dunigan, Geroy Simon UBC graduate Javier Glatt. Then on game day, a pre-game tailgate party and post-game celebration are both available for a single ticket price of $25.00. For further information or to volunteer for the Thunderbird Football Association’s Vanier Cup events, contact Lindsey Smith or visit www.ubcfootball.com.

The BLG Awards for the CIS Athletes of the Year also made their Vancouver debut back in May, thanks to national law firm Borden Ladner Gervais (BLG) Awards founder and UBC Law grad Doug Mitchell. A centrepiece of Canadian Interuniversity Sport, the BLG Awards honour the CIS female and male athletes of the year. The prestigious twoday affair began May 15 with a luncheon for athletes, guests and media at the Fairmont Waterfront Hotel, followed by a basketball game between the eight awards finalists and members of the BLG Awards founders. The following night,

the eight national nominees representing each of the four CIS regional conferences were honoured in front of more than 1,000 BLG guests at The Centre in Vancouver for Performing Arts. Veteran sport broadcasters Vic Rauter and Lisa Bowes hosted the 19th annual proceedings, which subsequently aired on the TSN network. The Canada West finalist for the Jim Thompson Trophy (CIS Female Athlete of the Year) was Thunderbird volleyball team captain Shanice Marcelle, the 2011 CIS Player of the Year who guided the Thunderbirds to a fourth consecutive national championship last spring.

It was back in 1994 at legendary UBC’s rowing coach Frank Read’s funeral that a group of UBC alumni first discussed constructing a boathouse that would be a permanent home for UBC rowing crews. But it wasn’t until September 30, 2006 that the vision finally became reality. It was on that day – exactly five years ago – that the fundraising efforts of George Hungerford, Roy McIntosh, the late John Lecky and a number of other alumni resulted in UBC President Stephen Toope and Effie Leckie snipping the ceremonial ribbon to officially open the John M. S. Lecky UBC Boathouse. A lot of good things have taken place as a result of the facility in the time since. In addition to enhanced opportunities for UBC students, partnerships with Rowing Canada and St. Georges High School, a community rowing program has introduced the sport to many young athletes, one of whom entered UBC this fall. Nick Djordjevic, a Lord Byng High School graduate, has become the first UBC rower to have come up through the community program and others are sure to follow. With a modern facility, an abundance of boats, and a pair of seasoned head coaches in Mike Pearce and Craig Pond, UBC has increasingly become a destination for aspiring university and national team rowers from across the country. The recent addition of UBC grad and 2008 Olympic gold medalist Ben Rutledge to specialize in recruiting interested UBC students and coaching novice crews will serve to widen the field of participants from among the existing UBC student body. Back in the late 1990’s the Castlegar native was a first-year student with limited prospects of making either UBC’s hockey or golf team. Instead, he got into a boat for the first time, as did another freshman named Kyle Hamilton. Within a few short years, both UBC rowers had been named to Canada’s >18

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What is less well known is how many have influenced the development of Olympic and international sport through various administrative and leadership pursuits. The late Harold Wright, for example, may never have worn the blue and gold colors of UBC while a graduate student in the 1930’s, but he was president of the Canadian Olympic Association at a time when his son Lee Wright, a former UBC field hockey player, and daughter-in-law Thelma Wright, an outstanding Thunderbird track runner, were both competing for Canada.

Bob Osborne, UBC’s first athletic director and former varsity and Olympic basketball star, was the first to make his marks as a builder and administrative leader, as one of the original founders of the CIAU (now CIS) and later on the executive of many provincial and national sports organizations, as well various organizations attached to the Olympics, British Empire and Commonwealth Games and the Pan American Games. When Father David Bauer arrived at UBC in 1960 as chaplain of St. Marks’ College, he introduced the concept of national teams to represent Canada internationally. Rather than using reigning national champions or teams of all-stars hastily assembled for brief periods, Bauer advocated what he called a “team in being,” that would train together for extended periods of time in preparation for the Olympic Games. The model that embodied his novel idea was Canada’s 1964 Olympic hockey team, which was based at UBC, coached

by Bauer, and consisted almost entirely of UBC students. Bauer’s team manager and former UBC athletic director, Bob Hindmarch, subsequently carried the torch for UBC and for Canada in various ways too, including serving two terms as a vice-president of the Canadian Olympic Association.

Dr. Roger Jackson, an Olympic rowing gold medalist while still a UBC student in 1964, served as president of the Canadian Olympic Association; as a director of Sport Canada, and as CEO of the successful Own the Podium organization. The list goes on and grows endless if it were to include UBC grads who have coached, or served as mission staff, managers, tournament organizers, officials, sport medicine specialists and in other vital support roles.

In this issue of Blue and Gold, UBC’s Department of Athletics and Recreation pays tribute to all its administrative all-stars – those who have loaned time and expertise to Canadian athletes and a wide range of national and international sport organizations – and in the pages that follow, we introduce you to three UBC graduates whose extraordinary endeavours are contributing richly to the culture of sport both at home and in many parts of the world.

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he has taken over the Vancouver house her parents built on Tolmie Street overlooking the beaches of Spanish Banks. The hedges have grown tall over the years, but the home still affords to the next generation the same splendorous view of the north-shore mountains.

Growing up in such a setting with adventure loving parents, it was only natural that Tricia Smith and her four siblings assumed ultra-active outdoor lifestyles. Skiing, water skiing, swimming, cycling and going to the beach were all a big part of family life for the children of UBC graduates Marshal Smith and Patricia MacIntosh, both accomplished athletes – Marshal as a star rugby player at UBC and Pat as a member of the famed Vancouver Eilers basketball team.

Women’s Commission of the International Rowing Federation (FISA). She later became chair of the commission and was elected to the executive of FISA. The work of the Women’s Commission continues to focus largely on development efforts in nations where opportunities for women rowers are either limited or nonexistent. To that end, some years ago she asked FISA’s Egyptian representative – “a very nice man” - why there were no women competing for his country. He responded by insisting that there simply weren’t any women interested in rowing in Egypt. Tricia knew better, and assembled a list of names of Egyptian women rowers and presented it to him. “He had no excuse but to support them,” she says. “And now he is glad he did. He makes a point of updating me on their progress, about how eager they are, and how hard they’re working.”

A respected leader within Canada’s sport community, Tricia is occasionally asked what has motivated her to serve a bevy of local, national and international sport organizations following a rowing career that spanned 13 seasons and four Olympic Games. Not surprisingly, she says it all started back in those halcyon days as a member of a large, close-knit and active family. In all likelihood, the lessons didn’t appreciably differ from those passed on by other values-driven parents who grew up in the depression – “don’t be wasteful; play fair; work together; you can do anything you want if you put your mind to it; don’t give up; if something is worth doing, it’s worth doing well” – all of which remain enduring maxims in her personal and professional life. But there was one other important principle she acquired entirely on her own.

Following retirement, she was also given an opportunity and volunteered her time to become an arbitrator for sport, helping resolve disputes brought forth by Canadian athletes to their respective national sport organizations. That experience later resulted in her becoming one of the elected members of the International Council of Arbitration for Sport (ICAS), which oversees the Court of Arbitration, a body created in 1984 by the International Olympic Committee to hear international sport related disputes and disputes at Olympic Games. While attending her first ICAS meeting in Iran, she asked to meet some of their female athletes. As a result of that contact, Iran joined FISA and received FISA support to develop rowing programs, on the strict condition that equal opportunities were afforded to women as to men. Showing only a hint of pride, she explains that, eight years later, two Iranian scullers - one male and one female - took part in the 2008 Olympic Games.

Never shy away from asking the simple question, “why?”

“When I was in my 20’s, I remember hearing my dad tell a boyfriend how, when I was little, if I was being punished for anything, he and my mother always had to explain their logic and rationale. Otherwise I wouldn’t accept it. I always had to know why, and I was always impressed they took the time to explain their logic.”

The importance of seeking the logic became increasingly important as her athletic career progressed. While still in high school, she began rowing with the UBC-Vancouver Rowing Club team. Just two years later, she qualified to compete in the 1976 Montreal Olympic Games in coxless pairs. She went on to be named to three subsequent Olympic teams, capturing a silver medal in 1984, as well as seven world championship medals and a gold medal at the 1986 Commonwealth Games. Her strength as an oarswoman and bred-in-the-bone intelligence positioned her to ask questions of those in charge about how the team was selected, how decisions were made, about how and where the team travelled, as well as consulting other athletes and creating a structure to communicate shared needs for changes, or conversely, to convey positive feedback about things that worked well. The probing but respectful manner in which she represented her team mates didn’t go unnoticed by members of international rowing’s upper echelon, setting off a series of varying leadership opportunities, particularly in matters concerning women in sport.

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There have been numerous other organizations to which she has loaned her skill and support, including the UBC Alumni Association for which she served a term as president, the Canadian Olympic Association for which she currently serves as a vicepresident, and certainly there have been other rewarding moments.

She has been inducted into the UBC, Canadian Olympic and BC Sports Halls of Fame, and her university conferred a honourary doctorate upon her in 2000 in recognition of her achievements in sport and law and her advocacy of women in sport, the same rationale for which she was recently appointed a Member of the Order of Canada. She was asked to serve as Canada’s Chef de Mission at the 2007 Pan American Games, and as co-mayor of the Vancouver athlete village at the 2010 Olympic Winter Games along with fellow UBC grad and long-time friend Rick Hansen.

Modest to the core, she’s reluctant to discuss accolades of her past life, but eager to express the joy of the shared experiences along the way, and the extent to which she owes so much of it to the lessons she learned growing up in the house on Tolmie. It is those lessons and a few others that she freely passes on to other women and young people anxious to follow her lead - “it’s not work if we do it together; keep your eyes on the big picture; don’t sweat the small stuff; be creative and have fun; if she wins, we all win; don’t be angry about things you can’t change,” and the most important one of all…

“Ask why, and then make a difference.”

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f all the experiences that shaped his sport leadership career, John Mills says there are two that stand out.

The first was a particularly formative one as a first grader at Vancouver College. The principal brought in two mini-basketballs and announced that anyone who could complete his arithmetic exercise before the recess could leave early and take one of the basketballs down to the gym. Within minutes – an eternity to an anxious six-year-old – he was trying to discover how to hurl a small basketball into a ten-foot hoop. “It’s such a clear memory for me,” he says, reflecting on the moment from a chair in a meeting room overlooking what used to be the 2010 speedskating venue at the Richmond Olympic Oval. “From that point on, I was a basketball player.”

when Calgary lost to Vancouver, rather than sulk, CODA decided they would become the training centre for Canada’s 2010 winter athletes.” For the next eight years he directed the development of facilities and programs that not only fulfilled the sport and recreation aspirations of a community still invigorated by the 1988 Calgary Games, but also the unique needs of many of Canada’s 2010 athletes. During that period the foundation was established for the expansion of Canada Olympic Park, which will soon serve as a comprehensive event and training site for Canada’s winter sport athletes in hockey, figure skating, sliding, snowboard, alpine, freestyle, and Nordic skiing.

During the early years in Calgary, he also served as an executive member of the 2010 Vancouver Bid Corporation.

Following Canada’s outstanding medal performance in Torino in 2006, his thoughts began to drift back to his home town and the spectacle that would unfold four years hence. By the time he returned to the west coast shortly after the 2006 Torino Games, some of the practises that CODA had put in place were just beginning to pay dividends on the podium. It occurred to him that the same things could be achieved back home. “I had the idea thatof I wanted to be involved in the legacy of 2010 and Team/year eligibility: Alpine skiing/4 the Oval, in particular, intrigued me.” After a two-year stint Faculty: science (Cell Biology and Genetics) as an Associate Deputy Minister with the Province of BC, he jumped at the City of Richmond’s offer to become the General Manager of its 2010 legacy jewel.

Fast forward a few years to 1971. He was riding back from a late-season series in Lethbridge with his UBC Thunderbird team mates and chatting with head coach, Peter Mullins. Up to that time, he hadn’t been a starter, nor was he particularly optimistic about his basketball career. Still, he was thrilled to be playing for the Thunderbirds. Mullins asked, “How good do you want to be?” Understanding the importance of the question, he paused a moment, and said: “I think I can probably contribute coming off the bench.” Mullins reply was blunt: “If that’s all you want to be, then I don’t want you back next year.” Momentarily stunned, the lanky 20-year-old listened as Mullins made his case for what he believed his sophomore forward could achieve with a slight shift in attitude. “He gave me confidence that I could be much better than I thought I could be, and also the opportunities to improve. The next season I was a starter on the 1972 national championship team and that summer I played for Canada.”

Inspired by what his coach had done for his skill and confidence, John made up his mind that he wanted to follow in his footsteps and endeavour to do the same for other young basketball players. In the back of his mind, he even hoped that he could coach for UBC someday. The closest he came was immediately after graduation when he signed on as a teacher and basketball coach at Vancouver College. Five years later he left the field of play to take over as Executive Director of Basketball BC, where he hoped to change the landscape of the game in BC and “paint on a bigger canvas.” Little did he know that the canvas would grow exponentially as the years went by.

After a prolonged period of cutting his leadership teeth at Basketball BC, he was offered what was arguably the top job in provincial amateur sport, as Executive Director and President of Sport BC. Inspired with an idea to increase access to sport opportunities to financially disadvantaged children, his highlight achievement was laying the foundations of KidSport, including courting deep pocketed supporters to increase the organization’s endowment and help spread the movement to communities across Canada.

In 1998 he was approached by the Calgary Olympic Development Association (CODA, now WinSport Canada) to move to Calgary and become president. Initially reluctant to leave Vancouver, he was won over by their persistence and their commitment to athletes. “I joined CODA in the middle of the domestic bid to host the 2010 Games,” he explains, “but

Today, the Richmond Olympic Oval is a state-of-the-Art multi-functional complex that welcomes over fifteen hundred members and visitors a day. And it is there that he continues to exercise his philosophy about how serving the needs of the community as well as those of elite athletes are not mutually exclusive objectives. If anything, he says they are complementary, and he sums up the two-pronged approach with a simple catchy phrase: “calories burned; medals earned.”

The enthusiasm for the Oval’s growing list of programs and off-the-charts success is visible in his expression and voice, particularly when he talks about initiatives like the Volleyball Centre of Excellence under former UBC All Canadian Joanne Ross, or conversely, programs aimed at teaching fundamental physical literacy to children aged two to six. Equally evident is the confidence instilled in him by Peter Mullins as he describes the challenges that lay ahead in his new volunteer role as Chair of the Canada Basketball Board of Directors – that of focusing Canada’s broad enthusiasm for the game towards outstanding international achievement. “Our goal is to become the team every other country hates to play and a podium threat at the Olympics and World Championships.”

And though the conversation with the iconic Peter Mullins is many miles behind him now, and the formative day of discovery in the Vancouver College gym even further, the connections between then and now remain relevant, and there have been some memorable stops on what surely has been an intriguing journey.

“I’d like to think I had a plan, but I really didn’t,” he says gazing reflectively out at the ice rinks of the Oval and the hardwood courts beyond. “I had a set of values and ideas that I took from my family, from UBC and Vancouver College, but you can’t plan a career like this. The field is so narrow. There just aren’t that many jobs and I’ve had all the good ones.” fall 2011 BLUE ;GOLD

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ike many exhausted Vancouver Organizing Committee (VANOC) staff members, Tanya Foley took some time off in the wake of the phenomenally successful 2010 Winter Games to recharge her batteries and give thought to what her next career step would be. As Assistant Manager of Sport for Hockey, she had helped lead the organization of what the International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF) described as “the most successful ice hockey Olympics ever.” So whatever came next for the former Thunderbirds hockey player had to be something pretty special.

Having met and worked with most of the top people in the IIHF in the time leading up to the Games, she had the right experience and connections to further advance her career, but also knew that job openings in international sport were few and far between.

“After a few discussions with people, and just a ‘why not’ kind of thought, I sent an email to (IIHF Sport Director) Dave Fitzpatrick, just to let him know if anything came up, I would love to talk to him about it” says Tanya. “They had advertised a position that wasn’t exactly what I was interested in, but it was worth at least seeing what the long term plans were, so we set up a time for a phone call. After the initial hellos, Dave started the conversation with ‘now this conversation is going to take a bit of a different direction than you are expecting,’ and he proceeded to share with me the events that had transpired since IOC President, Dr. Jacques Rogge’s comments during the Vancouver Games about women’s hockey possibly being taken out of the Olympic program if it didn’t become more of a globally competitive game.”

What Fitzpatrick described over the phone that day from the IIHF headquarters in Switzerland was that the IOC had issued a direct challenge to the IIHF to find ways to widen the competitive landscape of the women’s game beyond a handful of countries led

by Canada and the USA. He also explained that the federation was now ready to take up the gauntlet, including creating a new position for a full-time person to manage international women’s hockey.

“When he asked if I would be interested, honestly, I almost dropped the phone but managed to recover in time to say I would definitely be interested in hearing more about it as the plans became solidified. Over the next few weeks, the IIHF worked with some of the key nations involved to outline what was needed and I was formally offered the job and began making preparations to move to Switzerland.”

In November of last year, Tanya, her husband Clint and their two dogs made their way to Zurich where she took up her new position on December 1 as the IIHF Women’s Program Manager.

And although the doors of the IIHF offices opened wide to welcome her on that day, the doors she encountered as a kid growing up in Edmonton – those between the players’ box and the ice surface in the city’s community hockey rinks - did not.

The “no girls allowed” rule that frustrated parents and broke daughters’ hearts was particularly discouraging for a hockey-crazy eight-year-old whose parents were season-ticket holders in a city that witnessed the best of the Gretzky era. Not for long, as it turned out.

She bided her time playing ringette until she was about 15 years old when she and a couple of friends started a four-team girls’ hockey league that grew to eight teams within three years.

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Kindled by a deep passion for the game and an inordinate skill for organization, she set out on a career path that she couldn’t have imagined, let alone planned, but one that nonetheless escalated ever upward to international hockey’s highest kingdom. The irony of that eventuality is that, while many of hockey’s prominent male executives started out as highly encouraged youngsters playing in atom leagues in Canadian prairie towns, it was precisely the absence of the same opportunities for girls in those same towns that sparked her conviction and the success that followed.

“Unfortunately, for every story you hear about girls being able to change their names or cut their hair and somehow be able to play on the boys’ teams, there are many more like me who were not permitted to play. I think this inability to play, followed by successfully finding great people to start a women’s hockey league with while I was still in high school, was the first of many lessons learned that with determination, a strong desire, and a little luck with finding the right people who are willing to give your idea a chance, you really can move mountains.”

In 1998, she enrolled in Human Kinetics (now Kinesiology) at UBC and became a goaltender for UBC’s fledgling women’s hockey team. She also held down a number of volunteer jobs in support of emerging women’s hockey organizations, and squeezed in two internships with the Vancouver Canucks, and another with the UBC Department of Athletics and Recreation that resulted in a multi-faceted five-year period of employment. There, she fine-tuned skills in HR and office management, marketing, systems, processes, information technology and finance. Her well-rounded experience caught the attention of Cathy Priestner-Allinger, VANOC’s Executive Vice President for Sport and Games Operations, who hired her to juggle a similarly diverse array of tasks, including a key support role in the first year of the Own the Podium program. Two and a half years later, Priestner-Allinger began shifting staff into sport-specific roles in preparation for Games operations, including giving her trusted assistant the nod to join the team that would organize and stage some of the 2010 Games’ most unforgettable events.

“To this day, I still am a bit amazed that out of all the people in Canada, a country where everyone is a hockey expert, that I was hired for that role! I had a tremendous team with me who were responsible for organizing the men’s, women’s and sledge hockey tournaments that also included (former UBC women’s hockey coach) Dave Newson.”

Asked to describe her aspirations in her current role with the IIHF, she bluntly explains: “to make it possible for girls who want to play hockey to be able to, and to be able to dream of wearing an Olympic gold medal.” The process, she admits, will take time, and that a 10-year time frame is more realistic than looking ahead to the 2014 Games. Although the recent world championships saw improvement among certain Eastern European countries, she points to cultural barriers that stubbornly remain in those countries and elsewhere. Still, she’s optimistic.

“Sport has the power to change, and by finding new ways to make the sport of women’s hockey more visible and known, while helping educate the current players on how to be the best elite players possible, it will start a snowball effect of having great hockey, with more and more people watching and enjoying a great sport.”

Editor’s note: At press time, Tanya and Clint had just welcomed their firstborn, Joshua Clinton Foley, into their world. They aren’t yet certain if he’ll shoot right or left. ;

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Eight and struck precious metal several times in international competition, including their summit performance in Beijing at the 2008 Olympics.

Meanwhile, and in a similar vein, construction recently began on the Gerald McGavin UBC Rugby Centre, thanks to an $800,000 dollar gift from the former UBC rugby standout and national team member. Located south of the Doug Mitchell Thunderbird Sports Centre, the new facility will be home to UBC’s men’s and women’s teams, complete with shower and locker rooms for home and visiting teams, a new natural turf field and spectator seating area. Pending a potential partnership with the BC Rugby Union, the addition of training and sport medicine facilities may follow in the near future.

Further plans are being contemplated that would eventually see the addition of a social space as well as offices and meeting rooms. Anyone interested in seeking further information about the new facility and future plans are encouraged to contact Steve Tuckwood, UBC Athletics Associate Director, Development, at 604-822-1972 or steve.tuckwood@ubc.ca.

Staying with rugby, on the evening of March 21, one of the sport’s all-time greats, Buzz Moore, walked off the playing field for good. Just a few weeks later, on a night that coincided remarkably with what would have been his 90th birthday, the UBC Athletic Department staged the 90th annual Big Block Athletic Awards banquet, and dedicated the evening to his memory. Buzz would no doubt be greatly enthused to know that 2006 graduate Tyler Hotson is currently playing for Canada at the Rugby World Cup in New Zealand. UBC coach Spence McTavish, who staged a well-organized tribute to Buzz at the University Golf Club shortly after his passing, also made the journey south to take in the action and to meet with officials from the University of Wellington and University of Auckland in hopes of expanding existing UBC student exchange relationships to include rugby players.

Rick Noonan is very much alive and well and living la dolce vita among the vines on the Naramata Bench, however, the recent Father Bauer Golf Tournament was the 25th edition he has organized and, sadly for many, the last. Rick has passed the alumni torch to Mike Ikeda, who has pledged to take over organizing a UBC hockey alumni tournament, but under a different name. Meanwhile, former players who knew Father David Bauer well elected to salute the work Rick has done by presenting him and wife Wendy with an all-expense paid trip to the emerald isle that marks his heritage.

Legendary UBC soccer head coach and athletics administrator Dick Mosher was also honoured recently, as a co-recipient of the Jean-Marie de Koninck Coaching Excellence Award at the CIS Awards Banquet in Victoria, along with UBC grad and basketball coaching legend Kathy Shields. Dick began as head coach of the T-Bird men’s squad in 1986. During his nineyear stint at the helm of UBC’s men’s team, his side lost only seven games and kept an unbelievable 86-7-13 overall record (.873) en route to six CIS national championships. In 1995, he turned his attention to the UBC women’s team and led the Thunderbirds to three national championships before retiring from coaching in 2009. Kathy Shields joined the University of Victoria women’s basketball program as an assistant coach in 1977-78 following a successful playing career with UBC

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and the Canadian national team. She became the Vikes’ head coach a year later. Her coaching career is second to none in CIS annals. In 21 campaigns at the helm at UVic, she led her troops to 14 Canada West titles and eight CIS banners – an all-time record in women’s basketball – while compiling a spectacular 320-50 overall record.

It wasn’t just any ordinary pitching change for Vancouver Canadians manager John Schneider on Thursday, June 30 as he summoned the bullpen. Leading up to Vancouver’s 2-1 win over Everett at Scotiabank Field, RHP Brandon Kaye became the first UBC Thunderbird to pitch for the Canadians throwing a scoreless frame in the victory. UBC alum Eric Brown then struck out two of the three hitters he faced in the 8th inning. These appearances marked the first time in Vancouver Canadians Class-A history that a UBC player has pitched for the hometown C’s, who went on to win the Northwest League this year. Both Brown and Kaye graduated from the UBC program following the 2011 spring varsity season where they were standout starters. Brown was selected by the Toronto Blue Jays in the 50th round of the 2011 MLB Draft. Kaye was signed by the Jays to a non-drafted free agent contract right after the draft. He was previously selected in the 2009 MLB Draft by the Jays but chose to pitch at UBC for two seasons before beginning his pro career. ;

LockerRoom McCabe wins bronze at World Championships UBC Thunderbird standout Martha McCabe won the bronze medal in the women’s 200-metre breaststroke at the world swimming championships held in late July in Shanghai. “I’m excited and ecstatic,” said the 21-year-old McCabe, who finished seventh at the 2009 worlds in Rome. “It’s a pretty important result one year out of the Olympics but I know this event will only get faster so I can’t step back by any means.”

McCabe wrapped up her fourth year at UBC by helping lead the T-Birds to the 2011 Canada West swimming title and a second place result at the CIS Championship. She is the two-time defending champion in the 200m breaststroke at the national meet. Former UBC T-Bird Annamay Pierse, who is the world record holder in the 200m breaststroke, finished eighth.

De Wit named to U23 Worlds and Pan Am Games team UBC Thunderbirds varsity stroke Ben De Wit is showing international potential after being selected to compete at the 2011 World Rowing Under-23 Championships in the men’s pair event last July in Amsterdam. De Wit is one of only three Canadian schooled heavyweight athletes to make the team, with the rest all from US Ivy league institutions. He is also the first UBC athlete to develop to the national program through the recent partnership with Rowing Canada, which is helping identify and develop talent through the UBC varsity team.

“We knew Ben would have a great shot at making the team this year,” said UBC men’s rowing coach Mike Pearce. “His improvement curve was very steep all year and it’s been exciting to see him develop. He has just been selected to the PAM AM team, but we are looking forward to getting him back to race for us at the Canadian University Rowing Championships in November.” ;

2011-12 Home Schedule Highlights Fall Sports

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9/17/2011 Alberta 2:00 PM TS 9/24/2011 Manitoba 2:00 PM TS 10/15/2011 Regina 2:00 PM TS 10/29/2011 Calgary 2:00 PM TS 11/5/2011 Canada West Semi-Final 11/12/2011 Canada West Final 11/19/2011 Mitchell Bowl @ Canada West finalist 11/25/2011 Vanier Cup BC Place (Vancouver, BC)

2011 Thunderbird Classic 10/21/2011 Laurier 7:00 PM WMG 10/22/2011 Concordia 7:00 PM WMG 10/23/2011 Memorial 4:00 PM WMG 11/4/2011 Seattle Mountaineers 7:00 PM WMG 11/11/2011 Brandon 8:00 PM WMG 11/12/2011 Regina 7:00 PM WMG 11/17/2011 Trinity Western 8:00 PM WMG 11/19/2011 Trinity Western 7:00 PM WMG 1/6/2012 Alberta 8:00 PM WMG 1/7/2012 Saskatchewan 7:00 PM WMG 1/27/2012 UBC-O 8:00 PM WMG 1/28/2012 UBC-O 7:00 PM WMG 2/10/2012 Victoria 8:00 PM WMG 2/23-24/2012 Canada West Quarter-finals 3/2-3/2012 Canada West Final Four 3/9-11/2012 CIS Championships Metro Centre (Halifax, NS)

10/14/2011 Lethbridge 7:00 PM DMTSC 10/15/2011 Lethbridge 7:00 PM DMTSC 10/28/2011 Regina 7:00 PM DMTSC 10/29/2011 Regina 7:00 PM DMTSC 11/11/2011 Alberta 7:00 PM DMTSC 11/12/2011 Alberta 7:00 PM DMTSC 11/25/2011 Saskatchewan 7:00 PM DMTSC 11/25/2011 Saskatchewan 7:00 PM DMTSC 1/20/2012 Calgary 7:00 PM DMTSC 1/21/2012 Calgary 7:00 PM DMTSC 2/3/2012 Manitoba 7:00 PM DMTSC 2/4/2012 Manitoba 7:00 PM DMTSC 2/17-19/2012 Canada West Semi-Finals 2/24-26/2012 Canada West Finals 3/8-11/2012 CIS Championships

Men’s Soccer

9/9/2011 Victoria 7:15 PM TP 9/10/2011 Fraser Valley 7:15 PM TP 9/30/2011 Lethbridge 7:15 PM TP 10/1/2011 Calgary 7:15 PM TP 10/7/2011 Trinity Western 7:15 PM TP 10/21/2011 Alberta 7:15 PM TP 10/22/2011 Saskatchewan 7:15 PM TP 11/4-6/2011 Canada West Championships 11/10-13/2011 CIS Championships Victoria, BC

Women’s Soccer

9/16/2011 Regina 5:00 PM TP 9/17/2011 Manitoba 5:00 PM TP 0/7/2011 Fraser Valley 5:00 PM TP 10/8/2011 Victoria 5:00 PM TP 10/15/2011 Trinity Western 5:00 PM TP 10/21/2011 Alberta 5:00 PM TP 10/22/2011 Saskatchewan 5:00 PM TP 11/4-6/2011 Canada West Championships 11/10-13/2011 CIS Championships Montreal, QC (McGill)

Women’s Field Hockey

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Calgary Calgary Victoria Victoria Alberta Alberta CIS Championships

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9/23/2011 Lethbridge 4:00 PM 9/25/2011 Alberta 1:00 PM 9/30/2011 Calgary 4:00 PM 10/21-23/2011 Canada West Championships 11/3-6/2011 CIS Championships

Wolfson Field Wolfson Field Wolfson Field Calgary Peterborough, ON

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10/28/2011 UBCO 7:00 PM 10/29/2011 Lakehead 7:00 PM 11/11/2011 Brandon 6:00 PM 11/12/2011 Regina 5:00 PM 11/17/2011 Trinity Western 6:00 PM 11/19/2011 Trinity Western 5:00 PM 1/6/2012 Alberta 6:00 PM 1/7/2012 Saskatchewan 5:00 PM 1/27/2012 UBC-O 6:00 PM 1/28/2012 UBC-O 5:00 PM 2/23-26/2012 Canada West Quarter-finals 3/2-3/2012 Canada West Final Four 3/9-11/2012 CIS Championships Opening Round 3/16-18/2012 Final 8 Calgary

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10/22/2011 Alumni Game TBD 11/18/2011 Saskatchewan 8:00 PM 11/19/2011 Saskatchewan 2:00 PM 11/25/2011 Calgary 8:00 PM 11/26/2011 Calgary 7:00 PM 1/13/2012 Thompson Rivers 8:00 PM 1/14/2012 Thompson Rivers 7:00 PM 1/20/2012 Manitoba 8:00 PM 1/21/2012 Manitoba 7:00 PM 2/3/2012 Brandon 8:00 PM 2/4/2012 Brandon 7:00 PM 2/16-19/2012 Canada West Quarter-Finals 2/24-25/2012 Canada West Final Four 3/2-4/2012 CIS Championships Kingston, ON

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Women’s Volleyball Men’s Hockey

10/7/2011 Calgary 7:00 PM DMTSC 10/8/2011 Calgary 7:00 PM DMTSC 11/4/2011 Calgary 7:00 PM DMTSC 11/5/2011 Calgary 7:00 PM DMTSC 11/18/2011 Manitoba 7:00 PM DMTSC 11/19/2011 Manitoba 7:00 PM DMTSC 12/2/2011 Lethbridge 7:00 PM DMTSC 12/3/2011 Lethbridge 7:00 PM DMTSC 1/6/2012 SFU 7:00 PM DMTSC 1/13/2012 Regina 7:00 PM DMTSC 1/14/2012 Regina 7:00 PM DMTSC 1/27/2012 Alberta 7:00 PM DMTSC 1/28/2012 Alberta 7:00 PM DMTSC 2/10/2012 Saskatchewan 7:00 PM DMTSC 2/11/2012 Saskatchewan 7:00 PM DMTSC 2/24-26/2012 Canada West Quarter-Finals 3/2-4/2012 Canada West Semi-Finals 3/9-11/2012 Canada West Finals 3/22-25/2012 CIS Championships Fredericton, NB

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11/18/2011 Saskatchewan 6:00 PM 11/19/2011 Saskatchewan 12:00 PM 11/25/2011 Calgary 6:00 PM 11/26/2011 Calgary 5:00 PM 1/13/2012 Thompson Rivers 6:00 PM 1/14/2012 Thompson Rivers 5:00 PM 1/20/2012 Manitoba 6:00 PM 1/21/2012 Manitoba 5:00 PM 2/3/2012 Brandon 6:00 PM 2/4/2012 Brandon 5:00 PM 2/16-19/2012 Canada West Quarter-Finals 2/24-25/2012 Canada West Final Four 3/2-4/2012 CIS Championships Hamilton, ON

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