By Kaytlyn Poberznick After a hard-fought season for many NAIT teams, only two have made the final four Provincial playoffs. Men’s volleyball and women’s basketball take on teams from the north and south this weekend on March 11 and 12. Men’s volleyball hosts...
It’s that time of the year where friends get together and are glued to their phones or computers for 45 minutes to draft professional athletes of their choice to their fantasy sports team. For the last two years, NAIT Radio student, Russell Vicenta, has been a part of...
By Kaytlyn Poberznick The final year of eligibility holds a lot of weight for senior athletes attempting to achieve their remaining personal goals while also leading the team to a championship. For Keilan Dobish, last year should have been the end, but a canceled...
After a complete relaunch of the NAITs athletic program, Edmonton Stingers power forward, Jordan Baker, has stepped into the men’s basketball head coaching role for the next season. After four seasons as an assistant coach with the University of Alberta Golden Bears,...
By Kaytlyn Poberznick Shea-Lynn Noyes, five-year veteran of the NAIT Ooks women’s basketball team, has gone on from the blue and gold to a dynamic pursuit of her dream sports career in Toronto. Noyes looks back on her experience at NAIT with love. Appreciative of all...
By Orrin Farries Yasser Abdullahi was running a tepid pace for greatness on the basketball court. With a national championship with NAIT already under his belt, he knew the next challenge ahead was for him to become ‘the man’. It was summer 2017, and having just...
By Kaytlyn Poberznick Men’s basketball coach Slav Kornik looks to lead his men out of the uncertainty of the pandemic into their certain endeavor for an ACAC championship. NAIT athletics has faced a whirlwind of changes and moving targets for return to play. Kornik...
By Kaytlyn Poberznick The Alberta Colleges Athletic Conference have postponed the fall sports schedule until January, and Ooks Women’s Basketball team is trying to find positive outlooks for what lies ahead. This is not the season the team wanted, but it’s the season...
By: Orrin Farries The 2020-2021 ACAC season having been postponed has left a very different feeling in the air of the Ook’s gym. The usual smell of hard work and kicked up court dust has been replaced with the heady aroma of disinfectant. The almost electric buzz of...
By Orrin Farries Is the NBA coming back for a conclusion of its 2019-2020 season? That’s the question that has been on my mind and I am sure a good deal of other NBA fans and pundits. On March 7 of this the year of our lord 2020, the seeds of doubt were planted when...
