NAIT Athletics has finished an extensive interviewing process to fill the 10 open head coaching positions for all of NAIT’s sports teams. This marks the beginning of the department’s new financial model which aims to improve the student-athlete experience at NAIT....
It was almost a year ago that the sports world was upended by the coronavirus pandemic and gymnasiums everywhere were closed as a public health measure. What have we learned in this year of social solitude? The predominant narrative around sports in its isolated state...
March 15th, the year of Our Party 2120. Embarrassment and misplaced guilt raged through Cairo Naa. He tried to forget the reality of the world the only way he knew how. The air raised up through his lungs, and out his pursed lips passing virulent jazz from his flute...
At the end of this Black History Month, it’s important to keep the same energy as the beginning, looking at the historical struggles, the groundbreakers, and the successes that today are rightly marked as “black excellence.” While Canada might not have had the same...
If 2020 was a gauge of the human experience, it proved one thing: a lot can change in one year. The same holds true for the student experience at NAIT. With many programs to choose from, entire careers can blossom from a transformative year in a program at NAIT. This...
By Orrin Farries Love has been called a battlefield, and sport is certainly a battlefield. As much as sport is divisive and the fanaticism over what colour of laundry you cheer for has often spilled over into violence in its many forms, sport is as much about coming...
This past year of quarantine and isolation has made for a renewed appreciation of the relativity of time, however, for Aaron Weicker, a 2nd year student in the Electrical Engineering Technologies program, that time has been well spent preparing for a challenging...
For soon-to-be graduate Ty Gour, the choice was simple when choosing the Business Administration-Finance program at NAIT: follow the money. “The program focuses 60% on financial planning, finance theory, and investment classes, and then the other 40% is everything...
As entertainment platforms, sport and film share a great deal of similarities in that they showcase culture, identity, and camaraderie. Canada’s national sport, hockey, has long been inextricably linked with the Canadian national identity, and is thus a symbol of...
On Saturday November 21, the Alberta Colleges Athletics Conference, in association with the Alberta eSports Association, held a Super Smash Bros Ultimate tournament that gave a glimpse into the future of possibilities for eSports in ACAC. “[eSports players] are...
