By Lee Bogle and Sean Nyilassy
Four years, three different coaches, two different leagues and one degree. These are a few of the adventures of the Dinos women’s hockey players that spent their four years of eligibility here. These ladies built a program from near scratch and have paid homage to the hockey gods in doing so. Next year will bring… Continue reading Lady hockeysaurs flee by the dozen
By Lee Bogle and Sean Nyilassy
The Dinos women’s basketball team had a pair of matches Feb. 11-12 as important as the pair of humans on Noah’s Ark. With a 7-11 record heading into the weekend series, our ladies needed two wins as badly as a high frosh searching for an uh… 7-11. Only by winning both games would the Dinos… Continue reading Dinos upset Cougars and enter playoffs
By Lee Bogle and Sean Nyilassy
A loss isn’t always a loss. Sometimes something can be learned from a good loss and a team can gain from it. Jan. 7-8 the Dinos had two solid losses. “We were playing with a depleted roster,” Head Coach Shawnee Harle explained. Three of the Dinos’ key players were unable to play to their potential… Continue reading Herds of Bison and packs of Wesmen
By Sean Nyilassy and Lee Bogle
Riding a 7-1 record into the headquarters of the perpetually poor University of Alberta Pandas should statistically be an easy deuce of wins. Fortunately, the Dinos women’s basketball team knew better from some bad experiences in the past. “We learned from last year not to take teams lightly,” heroine and co-captain Lindsay Maundrell advised us.… Continue reading Pandas pulverized
By Sean Nyilassy and Lee Bogle
A representative of the carnivorous mascots from each of the Canada West Athletic Association member schools will meet May 4-6 to decide if the Bobcats’ extinction is imminent. In simpler terms, the Brandon University Bobcats basketball teams may not be allowed to play in the Canada West conference due to a technicality. Since the amalgamation… Continue reading Brandon University Bobcats an endangered species?
By Sean Nyilassy and Lee Bogle
Talent Sure, you’ve got your Canada West First-Team All-Star Tanya Hautala, who drained 41 points in one game against the University of Saskatchewan Huskies. But there’s also rookies Michelle Willson and Courtney Coyle, who led the team in scoring and rebounds on multiple occasions. Their presence will ensure there’s no lack of talent on this… Continue reading Report Card: Women’s Basketball
By Sean Nyilassy and Lee Bogle
Talent Okay, so the ladies didn’t have anyone in the top 15 for points. Sure, both of their goaltenders had goals against averages above 4.00–the two worst averages in the ACAC for goalies that played in more than 30 per cent of games. But who said scoring points and stopping goals defined talent? No? Tough… Continue reading Report Card: Women’s Hockey
By Sean Nyilassy and Lee Bogle
Talent Tanya Hautala was hot a lot this season, scoring the third most points per game in Canada West and sixth most in the country with an average of 18.7. She earned CW and Canadian Interuniversity Sport Athlete of the Week when she almost single-handedly took down the University of Alberta Pandas, scoring a blistering… Continue reading Report Card: Women’s Basketball
By Sean Nyilassy and Lee Bogle
Talent Ummm… ahh… Shauna Raugust was pretty good with the most points on the team. Beth Nerland had seven goals, which is pretty neat. But with no team members in the top 15 for points in the Alberta Colleges Athletic Conference, there is little more to say. Effort What the team lacked in aptitude, they… Continue reading Report Card: Women’s Hockey
By Sean Nyilassy and Lee Bogle
Faced with the 20-0 Simon Fraser University Clan in the Canada West quarter-finals, calling the 9-11 Dinos women’s basketball team under-dogs would be an under-statement. After squeaking into the final playoff spot by winning their final two games, our ladies were forced into a best-of-three series against the nation’s top team in their Vancouver lair,… Continue reading Like a hummingbird fighting a gorilla