During Homecoming weekend the women’s lacrosse team gave Gael fans a reason to celebrate.
The women opened their season on the road in Montreal, where they faced opponents Brock, Toronto, and McGill in a series of regular season games—a format designed to cut travel costs for OUA teams.
The Gaels began their reign of terror on Saturday morning by picking apart the McGill Redmen 11-6 on their home field. Taking the momentum with them, the Gaels smothered the Brock Badgers 11-4 on Sunday morning, and then downed the U of T Varsity Blues 9-6 later that afternoon.

This weekend, Braden Novakowski will temporarily trade in the tricolour for the red and white maple leaf.
He will be representing Canada at the Pan Am Junior Athletics Championships in Windsor. It will be his fourth time on the start line in international competition—and his second in track and field—but the prospect still excites him.

The new school year offers up new friends, new classes and a new look for Golden Gaels teams. The summer months—full of coaching changes, recruiting efforts, training programs and competitions in Canada and around the world—have produced several teams to watch this year.

If there exists a battle of the sexes, then the women have won this round: Chris Galbraith, an assistant coach with the Gaels’ men’s volleyball team for the past three years, will be stepping up to take the reins of the women’s team next season.
On June 7, Queen’s Athletics announced they had selected Galbraith to fill the shoes of departing women’s head coach Jamie Mastorakos, who held the post for the last four years.

Kirk Muller spent 19 years in the NHL. Drafted in 1984, he enjoyed an illustrious career. He represented Canada in international play and was an NHL team captain and a Stanley Cup champion. He spent time with the Toronto Maple Leafs and Montreal Canadiens, the two teams closest to his native Kingston.
And on June 17, John McFarlane, Chair of Queen’s Athletics, announced that he is the new head coach of men’s hockey.

There will be a lot of familiar faces in the men’s basketball locker room this season, with one notable exception. Head coach Chris Oliver stepped down earlier this month to take the head coaching position at the University of Windsor and will be replaced for the upcoming season by former assistant head coach Rob Smart.

On April 27, two players—both Golden Gaels football stars—sat in their respective Kingston homes with housemates and friends as they watched their Internet browsers slowly update the results from the 2005 Canadian Football League draft.

The Queen’s women’s ice hockey team is tuning up for another run at the OUA championships. After finishing the regular season last year with a 17-4-1 record and went 2-1 in the playoffs, the Gaels came up short against Laurier in the OUA championships.

It was a busy week for the varsity men’s rugby team. After defeating U of T in Toronto on Saturday, the Gaels had just two practices to prepare for a Wednesday road trip to Ottawa where they took on the Carleton Ravens.
In a replay of last season’s OUA bronze medal game, the Ravens once again came out on top, winning by a final score of 13-6. Then on Sunday Queen’s pushed its record for the season to 3-1 with a dominant 43-0 victory over the Trent Excalibur.

Queen’s lightweight rowers Simon Gowdy and Morgan Jarvis did not have a typical summer vacation. Gowdy and Jarvis were named to the Under 23 National Team that represented Canada at the world championships in Poznan, Poland this past August.