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...
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 Zachary Flynn The Ooks found some midseason tournament success before the start of the winter semester in the annual North vs South basketball tournament hosted by NAIT. The Ooks soared to victories both days, beating St. Mary’s University 100-85 on day one and...
By Adrian St. Onge The NAIT Ooks men’s basketball team is coming back from the winter break with an 8-6 record. Pushing to keep their playoff hopes alive, rookie head coach Slav Kornik looks to get the team trending towards winning ways. “We have a good atmosphere....
By Zachary Flynn After five years of playing for the NAIT Ooks, Leah Vandenboogaard returned to the NAIT gymnasium - this time, on the opposing bench. Following her final season with the Ooks, Vandenboogaard was selected by the CCAA to be a part of the Canadian...
By Zachary Flynn Women’s Basketball Finishing the first half of their season with a 6-6 record, the team is looking to find more consistency in 2020. “There are moments of brilliance and moments where we’re brilliantly awful,” said head coach Todd Warnick. The team...
SEAN-MICHAEL CLANCEY St. Louis, Missouri Sean-Michael Clancey leads the ACAC in scoring by a wide margin. Clancey has 265 points in his first 10 games - that’s nearly 1.5 times more than the second-placed scorer who just happen to be Hugo Cluysen, his own teammate....
By Colin Gaumont Stef Thomson Head Coach In her second year as coach of the woman’s hockey team, Stef Thomson sees coaching as more than just a profession and more of a way of life. She lives and breathes the sport on an everyday basis. “When you go into college...
By Mia Hildebrandt Every collegiate student athlete has the challenge of balancing academic work with competing at a high level in their sport. While most athletes play one sport and have their hands full, Will Pittman is doubling down on the experience. Pittman is...
By Zachary Flynn Slav Kornik Head Coach What used to be a side job for Slav Kornik is now his full-time gig as he returns to NAIT as the head coach of the men’s basketball team. Kornik, a graduate of the radio & television program, spent over a decade in the news...
