Archive for the 'CIS' Category

CIS in Florida

The Women’s Western Mustangs finished in third place at the Innisbrook Invitational Volleyball Tournament in Clearwater, Florida, defeating Calgary in five sets in the bronze medal game on Dec. 31.
After defeating CIS ranked No.10 McGill 3-1 in the quarter-final game, Western fell 3-1 to CIS ranked No.4 Manitoba (24-26,15-25, 28-26, 23-25) to qualify for the [...]

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Western Names Quigley

Years ago, what happened yesterday at Western would have been called a love-in.
If it was a movie, it would have earned two thumbs up.
Therese Quigley was officially introduced as Western’s new director of sports and recreation services, although she doesn’t take over until July 2009.
The room was packed by friends, coaches, administrators, family, media, some [...]

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Cadieux-Van Huizen a Hot Fifth

The Canadian beach duo of Ahren Cadieux and Rich Van Huizen posted their first major upset of the US$175,000 Bahrain Open Wednesday when they defeated the defending champions of the event Nummerdor-Schuil of the Netherlands.
Playing partners for the first-time they were seeded 16th in the 32-team Main Draw. Cadieux and VanHuizen posted a 21-18 and [...]

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CIS Academic All-Canadians

Canadian Interuniversity Sport proudly announced the student-athletes honoured as Desjardins Top Eight Academic All-Canadians for the 2007-08 season. Three of these eight distinguished student-athletes are volleyball players: Niklas Rademacher, Jennifer Thomson and Ben Schellenberg.
Every year, a growing number of CIS student-athletes are recognized as Academic All-Canadians, having maintained a grade point average (GPA) of 80 [...]

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