Shuttlecock season is in full flight and the NAIT Ooks’ badminton team is on the road back to the nationals. Last season was unlike previous years – the team made it to the nationals but won no medals. Prior to last season, the Ooks had earned a national medal every...
Cassidy Taal has been chosen by the Canadian College Athletic Association (CCAA) Female Coach Apprentice Program to become a coaching apprentice for the NAIT Ooks women’s basketball team for the 2017-18 season. The goal of the program is to support graduating...
What’s the biggest difference between sitting volleyball and playing volleyball for the Ooks? “Well, the standing,” Sarah Melenka laughed. Sarah Melenka is a second year member of the women’s volleyball team at NAIT. She is also part of the Canadian sitting volleyball...
Earlier in the semester I came up with a feature for the sports section called “Fight Corner.” In one of these articles, I expressed how Edmonton’s fight community is thriving and will continue to thrive after the arrival of a UFC 215 here. The UFC hype, along with...
His eyes glowed as the fire roared within him. He’d been prepping for months and finally this was his moment. The crazed father sits up in the stands, more excited than he was for his wedding, as his house league peewee kid begins another year and steps on the ice....
On Saturday Dec. 9 at 7 p.m, the NAIT men’s hockey team will face off against the University of Alberta Golden Bears at Northlands Coliseum, the former home of the Edmonton Oilers, known back then as Rexall Place. The game is a charity event, with 20 per cent of the...
Women’s hockey is not the most accessible thing in the world right now. Aside from the Olympics, women’s hockey doesn’t get a chance in the spotlight. This presents a problem: how do young girls find role models for their lives in hockey? The Edmonton Girls Hockey...
The Ooks have a player back that helped propel the team into championship contention in his rookie year. Jackson Jacob served as a well needed boost for the Ooks men’s basketball team when he arrived in 2015. He went on to win ACAC Rookie of the Year honours and a...
The 2017 CFL season was one of the best in recent memory. The year started off as the “year of the catch,” highlight reels were featured with sensational diving catches and one-handed grabs. The season ended dramatically, though, with high scoring, down to the wire...
When I think of athletes, I think of humans being in incredible shape, being able to use their bodies to a limit that most can’t adhere to. You see highlights of basketball players jumping to extreme heights to dunk a ball, hockey players deking out a goalie in order...
