When former men’s hockey assistant coach Tim Cunningham looks back on his 10-year stint at Queen’s, one of the things he remembers most is wishing he had more resources.
Under the Queen’s Athletics Funding structure, those salaries were part-time ones, and Cunningham said it was tough to build a strong hockey program and recruit players under the system.

The women’s basketball team traveled to Waterloo last weekend hoping to build on a two-game winning streak.
On Friday the Gaels put forth a lackadaisical effort and fell to the Laurier Golden Hawks 59-48. Jaime Dale led the team in scoring with 15 points, and Claire Meadows was right behind her with a 14-point effort.

Our process in grading the fall performances of Queen’s Interuniversity teams was highly unscientific. It is based quite simply on our perceptions of how each team performed, both in the regular season and playoffs, relative to their projected performances. The impressive results and high calibre of our teams made the grading process difficult. With a few more playoff wins, what follows might well have looked a lot like a Queen’s student’s high school report card. Congratulations to all the Queen’s athletes, coaches and administrators who worked so hard to bring our school results to be proud of.

Going into the 2006 NFL draft, the Houston Texans have three legitimate players they could choose with their first-overall pick: the USC Trojans’ Reggie Bush or Matt Leinart, or Texas Longhorn Vince Young.

Jan Stirling made a statement in her first CIS competition last weekend, winning three gold medals.
The first-year engineering student from Wolfville, N.S. ran exceptional times in the 300 metres, the 4×200-metre relay, and the 4×400-metre relay at the team’s first meet at McGill. In the 300 metres, Stirling ran the fourth-fastest time, and the three people still ahead of her are all hall of fame inductees.

The Blue Jays may have made a huge mistake in signing lefty closer B.J. Ryan to a five-year, $47- million contract.
With an excess of cash to spend over the next two years, Jays GM J.P. Ricciardi wanted to send the message that the Toronto franchise was ready to step up financially and challenge the Yankees and the Red Sox for supremacy in the AL East.
However, Ryan isn’t that message.

Last weekend, the Gaels shut up all the talk of inconsistency that has surrounded their team so far this season. Indeed, it was broom and dustpan time in Bartlett Gym as the Queen’s women’s basketball team swept games against Carleton and Ottawa.
And don’t let the men’s two weekend losses fool you. The slightly darker cloud that hangs over a team that fell to two of the nation’s top five basketball programs offers more silver lining than a NASA seamstress.

The women’s squash team opened their season last weekend at the Eastern Sectionals hosted by McGill University. Last season the Gaels brought home an OUA silver medal, and this year they are hoping to find similar success.

Claire Meadows led the Golden Gaels to victory over the Windsor Lancers last Saturday, helping improve the team’s record to 3-2 on the season.
Meadows, the team’s captain, guided the Gaels with a double-double against the Lancers, scoring 17 points and adding 14 rebounds—a notable feat for a shooting guard. She also added four steals and two assists in the victory.