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Evola ready to face new challenges
Women’s hockey coach excited for university coaching career
AT AGE THREE, Yanick Evola was introduced to the sport of hockey and instinctively fell in love with the game. After 31 years, he has completed his transformation from a power skating toddler into a Canadian Interuniversity Sport (CIS) head coach—on May 17, Evola was...
photo by Alex Martin
Derouin to succeed DeAveiro
Former Gee-Gee captain returns to lead men’s basketball team
IN SOME WAYS, the new men’s basketball coach is quite similar to the old one. Both James Derouin and Dave DeAveiro were former student-athletes at the University of Ottawa and held assistant coaching positions at the university before becoming the head honcho. In short, they...
photo by Alex MArtin
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A summer of Fury
Gees’ star defender prepares for CIS season with local soccer club
IN THE PAST 10 seasons, the women’s soccer team at the University of Ottawa has never finished below third-place in Ontario—an amazing feat for a program founded in 1994. Equally as impressive is the record that the Ottawa Fury W-League team has logged since 2003:...
The final chapter
Wide receiver Cyril Adjeitey returns for fifth year after CFL E-camp
EVERY DECEMBER, AFTER the end of another gruelling football season, a select few players from Canadian Interuniversity Sport (CIS) teams are invited to the Canadian Football League (CFL) E-camp. The E-camp is a three-day event in which top football prospects are given the chance to impress CFL scouts and coaches. Simply put, it’s a showcase of talent, reserved for the best. Naturally, All-Canadian wide receiver and Gees athlete Cyril Adjeitey was a perfect fit for the 2010 camp, held this...
illustration by Alex Martin
Welcoming the new Gee-Gees
Recruits, transfers look to make impact on U of O sports teams
EVERY YEAR, DOZENS of young, aspiring athletes choose to dedicate the next four to five years of their lives to the Gee-Gees program straight out of high school. Others decide to transfer to the University of Ottawa from another post-secondary institution with hopes of winning...
illustration by Brennan Bova
Ottawa’s summer sports scene
A guide for the city’s hardcore sports fans
THE LACK OF Gee-Gees games in the summertime creates a huge void in the life of the student sports fan. To help you pass the time until September, the Fulcrum takes a look at the city’s major summer sporting events.
FIFA World Cup fever hits campus
West African student community fired up for soccer tournament
AS MEMORIES OF the Chicago Blackhawks and the Philadelphia Flyers of the National Hockey League begin to fade away, sports fans around the nation have turned their eyes to a more international tournament: the 2010 FIFA World Cup. This year’s edition of the world’s premier soccer event is especially noteworthy as it is being hosted in the continent of Africa for the first time. The West African Youth Association (WAYA), one of the many cultural clubs that exist at the...
Opportunity strikes for Sinopoli
Gee-Gees star quarterback invited to CFL training camp
ON JUNE 7, while most U of O students were asleep, Gees starting pivot Brad Sinopoli awoke early in order to catch the 5:45 a.m. train to Hamilton. Sinopoli didn't mind, however, because he was on his way to the Canadian Football League (CFL) Tiger-Cats’...
Coaching search ends at last
Yanick Evola replaces interim women's hockey coach Miguel Filiatrault
SINCE FORMER WOMEN’S hockey head coach Shelley Coolidge left the U of O for cross-town rivals the Carleton Ravens in May 2009, the Gee-Gees have been on the search for her permanent successor. On May 17, however, the hunt ended as 34-year-old Yanick Evola was...
DeAveiro steps down
Men’s basketball coach leaves the Garnet and Grey for top job at McGill
FOR FIVE YEARS as a point guard (1984–89) and nine years as head coach (2001–10), Dave DeAveiro bled garnet and grey for the University of Ottawa men’s basketball program. That’s why his decision to leave the team, which he announced on April 15, came as...
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Upon further review
Return to glory
COME NEXT FALL, the University of Ottawa’s football team will mark the 10-year anniversary of their last Vanier Cup victory. The Gee-Gees’ victory in the university football championship of 2000 is arguably the greatest athletic moment for the school in recent history. The national title cemented Ottawa as a football power in university sports. Furthermore, the banner also came during the same year that the women’s soccer team won the Ontario University Athletics (OUA) championship. This was nothing new, as...
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Fadeaway into history
Josh Gibson-Bascombe and Donnie Gibson leave behind a legacy at the U of O
THE TWO TOWERS in men’s basketball at the University of Ottawa are hanging up their jerseys. Both of the Gee-Gees 2009–10 fifth-year starting point guards, Donnie Gibson and Josh Gibson-Bascombe, are set to move on from Canadian Interuniversity Sport (CIS) basketball. On April 1, the...
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The Cavalry Awards
Celebrating the best in Gee-Gees athletics for 2009–10
GEE-GEES VARSITY TEAMS had the chance this winter to match or best the Ontario University Athletics (OUA) championship won by the men’s golf team in the fall. Although they fell short, captivating playoff runs from the basketball teams made things exciting. Here are the University...
illustration by Sallin Lin (CUP)
Playing through the pain
University athletes seldom deterred by injuries
MONTREAL (CUP) – EVERY YEAR IN Canada, there are over 63,000 sports-related head injuries in high school sports alone. Across all of Canadian organized sport, the figure rises to 1.6 million, with some estimates as high as 3.8 million. A great deal of these injuries...
Blazing saddles
U of O equestrian team open to riders of all levels
ANY BIG COMPETITION can be nerve-wracking for athletes, but this is especially the case with horse shows for the University of Ottawa’s equestrian team. The morning of the event, players’ hearts begin to pound as they come face-to-face with the horses they will ride. They...
photo courtesy Christina Stringer
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Derouin to succeed DeAveiro
IN SOME WAYS, the new men’s basketball coach is quite similar to the old one. Both James Derouin and Dave DeAveiro were former student-athletes at...
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Heckles: You’re not an explorer...
RECENTLY, I STUMBLED across some travel writing done by an acquaintance of mine. I found nothing unusual about this travel blog: the stories, the photographs,...
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Confessions of a FIFA skeptic
LAST SUMMER, I was fortunate enough to be selected to participate in one of the University of Ottawa’s field research projects in South Africa. Like...