Mike Giffin is looking to build on his phenomenal weekend, when he broke several long-standing Queen’s football records in his team’s 45-0 pounding of the Waterloo Warriors.
On Saturday Giffin, the OUA’s male athlete of the week, rushed for 193 yards and scored three touchdowns.

The University’s Athletics and Recreation Review is officially still in consultation, but the athletics department is already implementing recommendations to up its revenue. The review, released in June, recommends the University make a concerted effort to boost self-generated funds. Although Principal Karen Hitchcock has held off on approving any aspects of the review until Dec. 31, chair of Athletics and Recreation Leslie Dal Cin said the structure she has put in place will support either direction the Principal wants to go.

Missing out on the weekend’s Homecoming festivities didn’t stop the women’s lacrosse team from proving they still had Golden Gael spirit.

The Gaels’ soccer teams had a roller-coaster weekend. The women’s squad turned in a lacklustre performance Friday afternoon in a 1-1 tie against the Royal Military College Paladins but rebounded Sunday with a 5-0 defeat of the Trent Excalibur. The men’s team started the weekend well with a 4-2 victory over RMC but was held to a 0-0 draw with Trent on Sunday.

It was déjà vu for the women’s hockey team this weekend as they took on the Western Mustangs and the Windsor Lancers. The Gaels repeated the tie and loss they suffered against the same teams on the previous weekend.
Head coach Rob Lalonde said the team needs to work on their fundamentals.

A raucous Homecoming game crowd of 10,452 braved the cold weather to witness the Golden Gaels football team put on a show.
The Gaels demolished the Waterloo Warriors 45-0 while limiting them to only 54 yards on offence in a defensive masterpiece.
Gaels running back Mike Giffin ran for 193 yards and cemented his name among the top rushers in Queen’s history with his seventh game of the season with more than 100 rushing yards, a new Queen’s record. He also eclipsed the all-time single-season rushing record of 937 yards set by Brad Elberg in 1992.

Backed by a crowd of cheering fans and determined to prove that last week’s loss to Brock was just a blip on the radar, the men’s rugby team beat the University of Western Ontario 16-13. Saturday’s game was a heated one; Queen’s hadn’t beaten Western since the 2001 OUA final.

Cross country runner Braden Novakowski is a main reason why the men’s cross country team is ranked in the top 10 in Canada.
He came in second in the 8000-metre race at an invitational meet at Hamilton College in New York on Oct. 6. His finish helped Queen’s win the team title at the meet.

The Queen’s rugby teams had their least successful weekend of the season as both the men’s and women’s teams suffered defeat.
Last Friday the women’s team lost at home to the University of Waterloo 8-7 while the men traveled to Brock University and fell to the Badgers 26-7 on Saturday.

A change of scenery may not have been what the doctor ordered for the men’s hockey team as they fell 4-1 to the Western Mustangs in their home opener at the Memorial Centre Saturday night.
Western outshot Queen’s 63-16, but Gael goalie Ryan Gibb kept the teams even until the Mustangs pulled away in the third period.
Gaels’ head coach Brett Gibson said Gibb’s stellar goaltending gave his team a chance.

Last weekend saw the Queen’s men and women’s soccer teams go into action on the road against the Trent Excalibur and the Ryerson Rams.
The women were undefeated, winning against Trent 3-0 and tying Ryerson 0-0.
The Gaels’ success is due in large part to the performances of goalkeepers Kate McKenna and Hannah Shoichet. Since the season started, the women’s team has allowed three goals, with McKenna recording six shutouts and Shoichet recording three.

The Gaels’ football team got a taste of their own medicine last Saturday as the Ottawa Gee-Gees took a page from Queen’s playbook and came from behind with just over two minutes left to record a 13-12 win.
Gaels’ head coach Pat Sheahan said it was tough for the team to lose such a close game.

I’ve always felt sports and feminism compliment each other very well. I spent the first four years of my childhood soccer career playing on a boys’ team and I found the fastest way to assert my presence as well as my value in any arena was simply to prove by my actions that I deserved to be where I was. In those days, there was no greater equalizer than that hideous orange and black jersey.

The women’s soccer team beat Canada’s top-ranked team, the University of Ottawa Gee-Gees, at Richardson Stadium Wednesday. The Gaels were outside the top 10 in the rankings at the time, but it didn’t show on the field, and the team came away with a 1-0 victory.
It was the first win against Ottawa for Queen’s since Sept. 27, 2003, a span of eight games.