3/7/2010 10:58:49 PM | Volleyball (w)
For the third straight season, the UBC Thunderbirds are the best team in CIS women's volleyball. On Sunday night at the University of Alberta's Main Gym, the T-Birds completed a perfect season with a 3-1 (25-19, 19-25, 25-16, 25-22) victory over the Manitoba Bisons in the CIS Championship final.
3/9/2010 4:38:39 PM | Football
Shawn Olson has come home. UBC’s 1997 Vanier Cup winning quarterback has been tapped to revamp a Thunderbirds football program that is a shadow of its former self. Olson recognizes the immense task ahead of him, but he’s up for the challenge.
3/9/2010 5:48:30 PM | Baseball
After 15 games and more than three weeks on the road, the no. 13 ranked UBC Thunderbirds (14-1, 8-0) finally kick-off their home schedule with a pair of conference doubleheaders this weekend against rival College of Idaho Coyotes. Games begin at noon on Saturday and 11:00 a.m. on Sunday at Thunderbird Park.
3/9/2010 4:09:35 PM | Soccer (w)
The stakes are high for Mark Rogers, the new head coach of UBC Thunderbirds women’s soccer team. Not only does he assume responsibility for one of Canada’s most successful university soccer programs, he comes in on the heels of legendary coach, Dick Mosher. But Rogers is prepared for the pressure of taking up Mosher’s mantle at the helm of UBC women’s soccer.
3/9/2010 9:57:37 PM | Golf (w)
Jocelyn Alford led a trio of UBC Thunderbirds to top five finishes at the CBU Spring Break Intercollegiate at Primm Valley GC in Primm, Nevada this week, helping the T-Birds to their first tournament victory of the season.