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Brina Derksen-Bergen: Hardened by adversity, thriving with versatility for...
VANCOUVER — Brina Derksen-Bergen is the setter who just wants to get better. If you had asked her 12 months ago if she envisioned playing such a physically demanding role this season with the UBC...
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Barclay an ace, UBC volleyball women set to play for fifth straight CIS title...
The UBC Thunderbirds will play for a fifth consecutive CIS women’s volleyball championship today. The ‘Birds used a key rally in the third set on Saturday to regain momentum en route to a 3-1 (25-15,...
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Championship character kicks in as UBC Thunderbirds capture fifth straight...
Doug Reimer knows what to say and just when to say it, and on Sunday, the head coach of the most dominant program in all of Canadian Interuniversity Sport was once again well-timed with his words of...
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West Coast Classic pits No. 1 ranked, five-time CIS champion ‘Birds against...
VANCOUVER — Along the road to a dynasty in Canadian university women’s volleyball, the UBC Thunderbirds have each season found a new carrot to dangle in front of their collective faces. That their...
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The Province’s 2012 volleyball Player of the Year: Heritage Woods’ Gentile...
PORT MOODY — Alessandra Gentile hasn’t gotten around to getting her driver’s license yet. “I don’t have my ‘N’ yet, so my mom’s been driving me,” the standout right side hitter and setter says with...
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Real-life experiences the details that make the difference for new UBC coach...
VANCOUVER — Andrea Neil’s soccer resume speaks a pretty impressive language, but ask the new head coach of the UBC Thunderbirds women’s soccer team about it, and you soon discover that her true measure...
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CW Final Four women’s volleyball: Consistency hallmark of No. 1 UBC’s...
VANCOUVER — Ask UBC Thunderbirds women’s volleyball coach Doug Reimer to talk about what distinguished the regular season for his five-time defending CIS championship team, and one word gets repeated...
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2.21.13 Uni notes: UBC-TWU set for volleyball showdown, ‘Birds makes waves,...
NORTH DELTA — It only seemed like a Saturday night in the CIS. Playoffs brought Canada West teams to the fore on Thursday night. Here’s our complete wrap, including Canada West final four women’s...
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Can you get enough? UBC v Trinity Western in Friday showdown for CIS final berth
The best rivalry in university women’s volleyball takes to the national stage Friday. Fresh off a Saturday battle at War Memorial Gymnasium in the Canada West championship final, the No. 1-ranked UBC...
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Uni notes 3.01.13: Great day for UBC hoops, volleyball; tough one for TWU, UFV
VANCOUVER — With under three minutes remaining on the game clock at War Memorial Gymnasium on Friday, a Fraser Valley Cascades basketball team which had seemingly been thrown every possible piece of...
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Dynasty membership now official, volleyball ‘Birds win sixth straight title...
When the UBC Thunderbirds women’s volleyball team started its run to dynasty status back in the 2008, Twitter was just starting to catch on and the first iPhone was still a few years away from birth....
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UBC’s Shanice Marcelle caps collegiate career with CIS’ highest individual...
Shanice Marcelle has already enjoyed a fairytale university sports career. On Monday, however, it ended in the most glorious way possible. Marcelle, the UBC Thunderbirds’ graduating fifth-year...
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01.19.14: The Province’s weekend CIS men’s and women’s volleyball, hockey...
VANCOUVER — It wasn’t a part of their grand plan, but if anything, the first CIS loss in some 15 months for the UBC Thunderbirds women’s volleyball team is going to keep the six-time defending national...
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UBC volleyball vet Barclay tunes mind and body as ‘Birds begin playoff...
VANCOUVER — As one so attuned to the dynamics of a championship team, Lisa Barclay spent the last week listening to the words of others, absorbing wisdom at every turn. On Friday, coming off the reward...
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Sunday blues for blue-and-gold ladies: Volleyball dynasty ends at six, hoops...
A bid for history, one built on the backs of the six remarkable championship seasons that preceded it, ended in a most sudden and unpredictable fashion Sunday evening at the University of Regina....
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LABOUR UNREST: Numbers shrink on fields, courts as dispute impacts BC high...
Joe Moreira admits it was the toughest thing he’s had to do in nearly four decades as a high school teacher and coach. This past Monday, he gathered his senior girls volleyball team from South Slocan’s...
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York House’s UBC-bound duo part of talented volleyball crew that has Tigers...
VANCOUVER — Siobhan Finan can’t forget the first match of her senior varsity career as a ninth grade prospect with Vancouver’s York House Tigers back in 2011. “I was quite terrible,” she laughs. “I...
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BC’s best volleyball players: Timberline’s Sarah Chase takes top honours,...
CAMPBELL RIVER — One of them is entitled ‘The Talent Code’, another ‘The Mind Gym: An Athletes’s Guide to Inner Excellence’. There’s even one called ‘The 5 Dysfunctions of a Team’. With the academic...
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UBC’s Super Weekend: Dedicated core of ‘Birds staffers puts the Blue-and-Gold...
VANCOUVER — Back in the late spring, when schedules were officially released for the 2015-16 Canada West sports season, those working behind the scenes at Western Canada’s largest university athletic...
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Alissa Coulter: Braced for a challenge, UBC’s gritty senior hitter rises...
VANCOUVER — Alissa Coulter has tried her best to be its friend, so much so that despite its burdensome presence, she’s given it a name. “Lovingly, I call it Behemoth,’” begins Coulter of the huge black...
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