Tag: Volleyball

By Warren Jerred

The men’s volleyball team won itself a berth in the Canada West playoffs by beating Winnipeg 3-2, 3-1 in Winnipeg over the weekend. Now tied for fourth place with rival Trinity Western University, the “battle of the splitters” will be revisited this weekend in Langley, and if the Dinos can win both (they’ve actually strung… Continue reading Who’s your favourite Dino? Alfalfa? Or…

By Mike Attersall

The regular season is nearing an end and the Dinos women’s volleyball team is still pulling out the wins. Following in the men’s footsteps the ladies were able to sweep the University of Regina Cougars this past weekend in two straight matches.The Dinos came out looking strong all weekend long but started to burn out… Continue reading Cougars: the other white meat

By Warren Jerred

Over the weekend the men’s volleyball team treated the slightly more-lowly Regina Cougars to a 6-0 beating. Big deal. I am happy for the Dinos, but I hope that beating the Cougars doesn’t serve as false confidence or a sign of being “back on track.” Beating Regina never really means anything. Losing to Regina means… Continue reading Dinos beat Regina, prove nothing. Now it’s time to
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By Mike Attersall

After a well deserved holiday break the lady Dinos returned to the hard court on January 3-4 to take on the reigning national champions, the Manitoba Bisons.This match up should have had greatness written all over, after all, this was the rematch of the national finals held in Quebec City last year. Instead the fans… Continue reading Ladies return on fire but extinguish in Edmonton

By Warren Jerred

Hawaii Five 0-2: that’s the line on the Dinos men’s volleyball team after a weird weekend series against Manitoba. The Dinos continued their futility in their first game back from the holiday break against the Canada West powerhouse Bisons, who despite their obvious disregard for good grammar (who’s their rival, the octopuses?) looked like a… Continue reading Zhukov or not, the Dinos lose again

By Mike Attersall

Like climbing Everest, the challenge of getting to the top is never easy, especially with an inexperienced team. But inexperience is not stopping these Dinos from climbing to the top of their division. Calgary was able to take both matches this weekend against the University of Saskatchewan, a team desperately fighting to stay in playoff… Continue reading Volleyball ladies make a climb for the top

By Kris Kotarski

First, the good news. The Dinos men’s volleyball team came back from two embarrassing losses to the U of A Golden Bears to split a pair of 3-2 matches against the UBC Thunderbirds.The bad news? The weekend split meant the Dinos lost to UBC again, a feat no one but Calgary has managed to accomplish… Continue reading V-ball results expose deeper inadequacies

By Mike Attersall

This weekend’s performance reminded me of the Simpsons episode where they filmed a Radioactive Man movie in Springfield. In one scene, Radioactive Man gets hit with a 40 foot wall of sulfuric acid and you then hear him yell: “My eyes… the goggles; they do nothing.” Watching the Dinos play the U of A made… Continue reading Dinos topple the top seed two weeks running

By Warren Jerred

Have you ever seen that part of Billy Madison where Adam Sandler plays dodge-ball with all the young school-kids? If you’re like me, you laughed your ass off because it was a movie, but knew that in real life it would be terrible. Well, for those of us that wondered what it would be like… Continue reading Golden Bears maul feeble Dinos

By Warren Jerred

Got a problem? Throw some money at it and it’ll go away. That is how the most famous chin in Canadian politics ran the show in the ’80s and ’90s, and apparently, Dinos Head Coach Greg Ryan was paying attention. On Friday night against Trinity Western, the Dinos jumped out to a 2-0 lead, but… Continue reading Coach Ryan takes the Brian Mulroney approach