When Emma Benischek straps on her skis and hits the slopes of Mount Washington for freestyle skiing, she feels like she can fly. It’s a feeling she can barely describe. “You go off a jump and you feel like you’re flying,” said the 21-year-old. “It’s the coolest thing, I enjoy it so much.” Freestyle skiing…
WOLFVILLE, N.S. (U Sports) – The UBC Thunderbirds fell just short of repeating as U Sports women’s soccer champions. The Laval Rouge et Or, the tournament’s second seed, captured the U Sports banner and the Gladys Bean Memorial Trophy with a 2-1 win over the top-seeded ‘Birds Sunday afternoon, Nov. 13 in Wolfville. In an…
CORVALLIS, Ore. – Oregon State men’s golf head coach Jon Reehoorn announced Thursday that two student-athletes have signed National Letters of Intent to join the program for the 2017-18 season. The class includes Keaton Gudz from Victoria, British Columbia and Spencer Tibbits from Vancouver, Wash. “Each of them has a passion and love to play the game of…
Victoria, BC – Seeing a student start the day in the Canadian Sport School classroom and end it in a Rugby Canada training session has become a regular occurrence in recent years at the Canadian Sport Institute Pacific’s Victoria campus. Operating out of the same facility at Pacific Institute for Sport Excellence, the connection between CSI…
LANGLEY, British Columbia – The UBC Thunderbirds defeated the No. 2 ranked Trinity Western Spartans 3-0 in the Canada West gold medal match Sunday afternoon in the final of the Select Six tournament. The victory makes it two straight Canada West championships for the Thunderbirds. “Our last two weeks have been phenomenal. Ever since the come…
OTTAWA, Oct. 26, 2016 – Cycling Canada is pleased to announce the roster of new and returning athletes who will compete for the NextGen Men’s Track Endurance (NextGenMTE) program and Team RaceClean in 2017. The NextGen Men’s Track Endurance program was launched in 2014 with the goal of being medal contenders in the men’s team pursuit…
Victoria, BC – Canadian Sport Institute Pacific (CSI Pacific) is proud to recognize CSI Pacific-registered athlete Erin Attwell, who was one of four Junior Women named by Cycling Canada for the 2016 Road Cycling World Championships in Doha, Qatar from October 9-16. A native of Victoria, Attwell’s cycling career hit new highs in the last six…
Stephanie White still hears the occasional “girls play rugby?” despite leading Canada’s first World Cup team in the late 1980s. “We just played the U.S. every year from ’87 to ’91 then went to the world cup,” says White. Canada finished fifth in that inaugural women’s world cup; the U.S. team finished first. White played…
CALGARY, ALBERTA–(Marketwired – Aug. 20, 2016) – Editors note: There are two (2) videos associated with this press release. Petro-Canada, a Suncor business, today announced the 2016 Fuelling Athletes and Coaching Excellence (FACE™) Program grant recipients. The FACE athletes from across Canada represent 39 different summer and winter sports in both individual and team events.…
COQUITLAM (NEWS 1130) – In the lobby of the Pinetree Community Centre in Coquitlam, dozens of kids attending a wrestling camp momentarily abandoned the mat and crowded around a laptop. Leaning over staircase railings, and even on top of each other, the eager kids watched with baited breath as Canadian female wrestler Erica Wiebe grappled…