You might think the absence of snow in Kingston this winter would have stopped the Queen’s Nordic ski team from performing well this season, but you would be wrong. Thanks to their physical training regimen, good team chemistry and a lot of determination, the female and male cross-country skiers pulled off fourth- and sixth-place finishes respectively at the OUA championships in Sudbury on Feb. 18 and 19.

If you visit the Queen’s fencing website on goldengaels.com, you will find a quotation at the end of their season summary that reads, “The hit is swift, the impression endures.” At the OUA fencing championships Feb. 18, the quick hands of a young but talented Gaels team left a lasting impression on the competition, finishing fourth overall on the men’s side, and fifth on the women’s.

The men’s volleyball team capped off their golden season last weekend with a tournament to remember. To add to their conference title, the men pulled off Queen’s volleyball’s first wins at the CIS championships in 34 years.
Queen’s opened their bid with a match against last year’s silver medalists, second-seeded Trinity Western University from Langley, B.C.

The massive afternoon congregation among Florida senior citizens at this time of year could indicate one of two things: either that late-night bingo game has changed times, or Major League Baseball is back in full swing.

The playoffs are never a good time for a team to start losing games. Unfortunately for the streaking Golden Gaels women’s hockey team, they lost two in a row this past weekend and left the OUA championships without a medal for the first time in five years.

After finishing their regular season sixth in the OUA East with a 6-16 record, the men’s basketball team faced a considerable challenge as they entered the playoffs over Reading Week. On Feb. 22 the Gaels traveled to Toronto and faced off against the U of T Varsity Blues, who sat third in the division with a 16-6 record.
Despite being clear underdogs in a lopsided matchup, the Gaels shocked their favoured opponents with a 64-56 upset.

In basketball, size is supposed to matter. Queen’s women’s basketball did their best to dispel that notion over Reading Week, however, putting together two strong playoff outings, before bowing out in the OUA semifinals.

For the Queen’s men’s volleyball team, what began at Ryerson in a flurry of foam fingers and screaming Rams fans ended last Thursday on home court to the cheers of 600 boisterous Queen’s supporters.

The Queen’s track team exceeded expectations for the second straight weekend, setting two new school records at the Cornell Robert Kane Meet on Feb. 11. This year, they brought back 13 total medals (four gold, four silver and five bronze), in addition to an astounding 27 personal bests and 10 all-time top-10 performances.

The Queen’s women’s basketball team closed out its regular season on a high note this week, walking all over its crosstown rival from RMC for a decisive win to carry them into the playoffs.

K-W stood for killer wins for the Queen’s Golden Gaels women’s hockey team this past weekend as their trip to the Kitchener-Waterloo area resulted in four huge points. A 5-0 win on Sunday over the Waterloo Warriors came on the heels of Saturday’s 4-2 upset victory over the Laurier Golden Hawks, who are ranked number one in the CIS.

At about 4:30 p.m. on Saturday, two guitar cases full of money sat on the JDUC floor just outside the QP. No music filled the air, however. All there was to be heard was the sound of rowing machines—five ergs, whirring away in sync.