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With the 2019 Canadian Football League (CFL) draft completed Thursday night, the page turns next week to the next generation of top Canadian football prospects.Sam Baker, Nick Dheilly, Colton Klassen, Mattland Riley and Nicholas Summach are five of 88 players announced on Friday that...

With the 2019 Canadian Football League (CFL) draft completed Thursday night, the page turns next week to the next generation of top Canadian football prospects. Lieutenant Governor Athletic Award finalist and reigning Hec Crighton Trophy winner Adam Sinagra of the Calgary Dinos is one of...

Three-time Women’s Rugby World Cup star Julia Sugawara will take the reins of the Trinity Western women’s rugby sevens program, as she has been named the Spartans women’s rugby head coach. With women’s rugby set to join Spartan Athletics this fall, Sugawara, who featured...

Jesse Gibbon, an offensive lineman from the Waterloo Warriors, was the first U SPORTS player selected in the 2019 CFL Draft when the Hamilton Tiger-Cats called his name at No. 2, on Thursday evening. Gibbon was one of three U SPORTS players who went in...

In an historic 2019 CFL draft, five UBC Thunderbirds were selected Thursday night, led by quarterback Michael O’Connor who was taken by the Toronto Argonauts with the 20th overall pick.The Orleans, Ontario pivot was the first selection in the third round which also saw...

Mathieu Betts a football player from the Laval Rouge et Or, and Kiera Van Ryk, a volleyball player from the UBC Thunderbirds, were named the winners of the inaugural Lieutenant Governor Athletic Awards Presented by Makadiff Sports, as U SPORTS Athletes of the Year...

Kamloops based reporter Marty Hastings has been selected as the 2018-19 recipient of the Fred "Gus" Collins award, which honours a member of the media for their outstanding coverage of Canada West and its student-athletes.Over the last decade, Hastings has covered university sport extensively...

Trinity Western University’s men’s basketball program announced the hiring of Trevor Pridie as the team’s new head coach Friday. Pridie, who hails from Abbotsford, B.C., joins the Spartans after spending the past year as an assistant coach with the Raptors 905, which is the...

UBC's most successful football coach, Frank Smith will be honoured with a well-earned place in the Canadian Football Hall of Fame and Museum. Later this summer, Smith will be enshrined as part of the 2019 Class in the Builder category, officially announced Wednesday by...

Chin, Alberta has a population of 62 but will be less one this fall, as one of the residents will be moving on from the southern Alberta hamlet to the Okanagan.The 5'11" Amaya Perry has committed to playing with the UBCO women's volleyball team...

Trinity Western women’s soccer star Seina Kashima (Burnaby, B.C.) is one of three finalists for the 2018-19 Canada West Athlete of the Year award, with the nominees for the conference's top three male and female student-athletes.   This season marks the first time the conference has...