Penticton Vees Championship Preview
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The defending BCHL champion Penticton Vees, will face the Surrey Eagles in the Fred Page Cup starting Friday night. It’s a matchup of the two hottest teams in the BCHL playoffs, the regular season champion Eagles are 10-1 through three rounds and have won nine straight games dating back to game three of their Mainland Division Semi-Final with the Langley Rivermen. The Vees are 8-1 in the post season after sweeping Salmon ...
Reds Spoil April Game of the Month
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The Okanagan Athletics opened defense of their 2012 BCPBL championship title on Saturday in the RyanWatters.ca Game of the Month. In a pre-game ceremony the club unveiled their championship banner, their first in franchise history. Unfortunately this was only thing the Athletics gave the home crowd something to cheer about. The Coquitlam Reds, who the Athletics beat in the Final Four championship tournament last season, spoiled the festivities shutting out the ...
Curtis Urlacher, Concordia bound
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Curtis Urlacher had a terrific final season with the Mount Boucherie Bears high school football team. So much so, that received a number of offers from various CIS schools interested in signing him. Urlacher has made his decision and will head east to Montreal on Concordia University to suit up for the Stingers in the fall. Ryan talks with Urlacher about his decision and to find out who those interested schools were ...
West Kelowna Warriors Eliminated
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The Warriors are out of the playoffs after a 2-1 overtime loss in game five of the Interior Conference finals on Thursday. It was another terrific game from West Kelowna, and the Warriors had a 1-0 lead heading to the third period. However, the host Vees found the equalizer early in the third period when a centering feed bounced off ‘AP’ Josh Blanchard and in. Penticton then finished the series when a James ...
Huber Represents UBC Athletics
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Fifth year basketball player and RSS grad Roz Huber will represent UBC Okanagan athletics on Friday morning at the eighth annual Scholarship Breakfast. Huber joins a long list of quality student athletes to give a speech of thanks to the corporate community during the event. Ryan talks with Huber about her speech and how she's feeling in the lead up to the breakfast. ...
Uniat Named UBCO Athlete of the Year
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For the fifth year in a row and the eighth time in the last nine years the UBC Okanagan Heat Male Student Athlete of the Year has played for the men’s volleyball team. Miraculously there has also never been a repeat winner in the history of the award as Brett Uniat (Cochrane, AB)finishes his career off at UBC’s Okanagan campus earning the school’s top athletic honour. Dedicated equally in the classroom ...
RSS Grads Share Spotlight at UBC
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For the second time in school history two athletes were so deserving of the institution’s highest athletic honour that the award will be shared. Jen Woods and Roz Huber, both in their fifth and final years and both graduates of Rutland Secondary, will have their names share the plaque that annals the UBC Okanagan Heat Female Student Athlete of the Year award. Jen is a member of the women’s golf team and ...
Aloha! Huskies Win in Hawaii
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OKM Sr. Boys volleyball Team wins the first Annual Koolua Cup Invitational In beautiful Kailua, Hawaii. The tour has been been 10 months in the making for coach Paul Thiessen. "I created a blended team of core players from the senior Huskies squad and then added to two from KSS Owls to bring our numbers up to 8 for the tour. The tour required careful planning as we have six players ...
Coastal Hockey Showcase 2013
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This weekend Royal LePage Place in West Kelowna will be home to the Coastal Hockey Showcase that will show off the top 16-19 year old players. There will be eight teams that will scrimmage and show off their skills in front of a number of scouts and recruiters from junior teams and NCAA schools. Okanagan Rockets head coach James Eccles is the Director of the showcase and Ryan catches up with him. [soundcloud ...
High School Basketball All-Star Game
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The UBC Okanagan Heat men's and women's basketball programs are pleased to present the 2013 Okanagan High School all-star games this Saturday, March 30 at the Gym on UBC’s Okanagan campus. The home of the Heat will house four separate all-star games as the best players from the Interior in both the junior and senior divisions will descend on Kelowna to challenge themselves against the other top players in the Interior. The ...
