Athlete profile

Abby Dixon during the 2015-16 season.
  • 6 years 1 month ago

Dixon grows as team flourishes

When Abby Dixon decided to focus her sights on basketball over competitive soccer as a 16-year-old, multi-sport athlete, she couldn’t have anticipated the success that her basketball career would bring.Continue...
Will Hoey (18) played his first game of the year against RMC on January 15.
  • 6 years 1 month ago

Not without a few bumps in the road

Will Hoey, the men’s volleyball team’s 6’11” star middle, hasn’t had an easy time during his five-year stint wearing tricolour. This season alone, injury has forced him to remain on the sidelines for nine of the team’s 11 games.Continue...
Stephanie Pascal is back in net this season.
  • 6 years 2 months ago

Finding herself back in the net

Stephanie Pascal turns her head. Head coach Matt Holmberg taps her on the shoulder and tells her that she’s going in. It’s the first game of the season for the women’s hockey team, playing against Nipissing, and it’s early in the third period. The Gaels are down 5-2.Continue...
Eric and Andrew Ming.
  • 6 years 2 months ago

Brothers’ connection on and off the ice

The last time the Ming brothers played hockey together, it was back home on a neighbours’ frozen-over cow pasture in Williamstown, Ontario. This near-daily routine was a tradition that many Canadian kids find similar. But the Ming brothers had the talent to continue their hockey-playing days, with both playing in the OHL before coming to Queen’s.Continue...
Ben Rudson began running triathlons in 2014.
  • 6 years 4 months ago

Once in a lifetime race

With TV helicopters flying over Kailua Bay, and spectators watching as the sun crept over Mt. Hualalai, Ben Rudson couldn’t help but remove himself from the moment.Continue...

Nadia Popov (centre) scored 42 points in five games this season, earning her an OUA All-Star selection.
  • 6 years 4 months ago

Returning to the OUA with a new perspective

While Nadia Popov might be a rugby player with a Wikipedia page and a Pan-Am gold medal, she has midterms on her mind right now.Continue...
Through four games, kicker Nick Liberatore has hit 9 of 11 field goals, including this 34-yard attempt against Toronto.
  • 6 years 5 months ago

Turning trick shots into a scholarship

Across a running stream of water, over a bridge, and swiftly into a trunk isn’t detailing a fugitive’s tracks — it’s the improbable story of how Gaels’ football kicker Nick Liberatore put himself on the map and secured an athletic scholarship.Continue...
Before coming to Queen’s, Lily Jiang trained with 1984 Olympic gold medalist Jujie Luan.
  • 8 years 1 month ago

Gaels’ sabre savant

Lily Jiang’s second OUA medal was a little bittersweet.Continue...

Head coach Brenda Willis originally contemplated redshirting setter Jamie Wright before last year’s Bulgaria exhibition trip, where he stepped up after two other setters couldn’t play.
  • 8 years 2 months ago

Homegrown hustle

Jamie Wright wasn’t recruited to play Gaels volleyball, but he knew he wanted to attend Queen’s.Continue...

Defenceman Warren Steele (left) and forward Darcy Greenaway were teammates on the OHL’s Kingston Frontenacs for three years before joining the Gaels this season.
  • 8 years 2 months ago

Kingston connection

At any level of sports, seven consecutive seasons is a long time to be teammates.Continue...

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