Working out in the morning is the worst! Or at least that’s what I thought the first few times I made my way to the gym or the pool at 6:30 in the morning. No late nights with The Tonight Show and Jimmy Fallon or burning through the last 32 chapters of the latest book...
Women split, men sweep
It took four periods but once the first puck went in the net, the NAIT Ooks women’s hockey team got their mojo in the offensive zone. The three time defending champs won their home opener Saturday night 4-1 against the SAIT Trojans after getting shut out the previous...
Can’t have it both ways
“You know, we just gotta keep playing our game, putting pucks in deep and we’ll give ourselves a chance to win.” How many times has this utterly useless sound bite made its way into living rooms, bars and jumbo-trons across this continent? In fact, apply this to any...
Ooks sweep Keyano visitors
With the weather slowly, but surely getting colder, what better time for the 2015- 2016 ACAC hockey season to get underway. Last season’s defending ACAC champion NAIT Ooks men opened the new campaign by playing host to the Keyano Huskies out of Fort McMurray. Two...
Men, women trounce Augustana
The NAIT Ooks men’s and women’s soccer teams both entered play on Saturday looking to build upon their previous success against the Augustana Vikings, a team which both Ooks teams had defeated earlier in the season. Not only was the success duplicated, but triumphed...
Ooks sport strong lineup
Since missing the playoffs during the first season of head coach Doug Anton’s tenure, the NAIT men’s volleyball team has improved their play, including winning bronze in thrilling fashion last year. This season, the Ooks have the grandest stage in their attempts to...
Workouts are app-ening
While the impact that increased screen time and sitting has on our bodies, our gadgets can also be a great tool in increasing your fitness! Adding elements of gamification and social interaction to working out can be the difference between good intentions and actually...
4-game sweep vs Kings’s
After a rusty start in week one, NAIT’s soccer squads were looking to improve the following week against the King’s University College Eagles. The two defending champion clubs did that and more in a four-game sweep of their crosstown rival. The women shelled the...
A baseball convert
Recently I decided it’s time to start reading again – I mean, reading that doesn’t involve the Internet or homework; an actual sit-down with a book in my hand. My first foray back into scanning the printed page is a book my older sister lent me just before the...
three-out-of-four weekend
The defending ACAC men’s and women’s soccer champions opened up their respective seasons on the NAIT pitch this past weekend. The home opener was on Friday night against the Augustana Vikings and the next games took place on Sunday afternoon against the host of the...