The gym was the same, the balls were no different, but the rules were slightly altered: it was two pushes—not two steps—after picking up a dribble.

On March 26, Queen’s students will have a chance to help out numerous worthy charities while reliving the glory of grade five gym class.
Committees of students representing the ASUS Heart and Stroke Committee, the ASUS Cystic Fibrosis Committee and Alzheimer’s Outreach are teaming up to hold ASUS Dodge ball ’06, a dodge ball tournament to raise money and awareness for their respective charities.

Since 1967, fans of the Toronto Maple Leafs have made the phrase “there’s always next season” a part of their regular vocabulary. After 38 years of failing to achieve a Stanley Cup victory, the 2005-06 season will be no different, except for the fact that players will be teeing off a few weeks earlier this year, at a golf course near you.

The Queen’s competitive dance team ended their season on a high note last weekend as they travelled to Guelph to take part in the University Dance Challenge, which brought together dance teams from 14 universities across Ontario and Quebec for a day of choreographed competition.

A trip to the CIS championships last weekend closed out what might be the track team’s second-best season of all time. Head coach Melody Torcolacci said she is working on compiling the statistics but believed from the start that this year’s team is one of the most talented that Queen’s has ever seen.

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.