By Mia Hildebrandt For most sports teams, March and April are crucial months for recruiting, working on off-season projects and building chemistry within a team. Despite all the challenges that the COVID-19 pandemic has brought this off-season, the Ooks women’s...
Despite many organized competitive sports facing cancellations brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic, the world of Esports is thriving. Being an organized sport that relies on computers and online streams, many prominent esports leagues have been able to make the...
By Orrin Farries Sports Editor WWE hosted its most recent ‘showcase of the immortals’, Wrestlemania 36, to a live audience of its production crew and former New England Patriot and Wrestlemania emcee, Rob Gronkowski. There is a lot to unpack with Vince McMahon’s...
By Mia Hildebrandt As the athletic seasons are wrapping and graduating Ooks are starting to spread their wings out in the real world, they reflect on what being a part of the NAIT athletic family has meant to them over the years. Donnelly, Hurlburt, Lewington and...
By Alvin Thammavongsa Alexander Fung had a year to cherish and remember this year on the badminton court. Competing in mixed doubles with his partner Eyota Kwan, they went undefeated throughout the season, and won gold at ACAC provincials en route to Nationals. On the...
By Orrin Farries The father-son sport legacy is a substantial oddity. Dell Curry and Stephen Curry, Bill Walton and Luke Walton, Archie Manning and Eli (and Peyton) Manning, to name a few. These pro sports dads would of course bring their child up in the culture of...
By Mia Hildebrandt The athletic banquet awards are highly anticipated by all NAIT athletes but due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the awards ceremony was moved to an online presentation. The awards consisted of a 15 minute video recapping highlights from all teams...
By Orrin Farries The NAIT Ooks 2019-2020 men’s basketball team were an exciting bunch to watch. Between the enigmatic play of Sean-Michael Clancey and Hugo Cluysen, and the emotional vibrancy with which the whole team played every game, this team was built to...
By Orrin Farries Sports Editor You cannot spell catastrophe without ‘sport’. That is what these last two weeks have been for the sporting world. A catastrophic blow to the meta-ego of sports enthusiasts everywhere. The question of whether sports will continue this...
By Orrin Farries “This is the way [it] ends, not with a bang, but a whimper.” These words by T.S. Eliot ring ever true for Tim Fragle’s dominant 2019-2020 men’s hockey team. The ACAC men’s hockey season concluded without a champion due to the ACAC shutting down all...
