It's never too early to think post-season. Even if it is the pre-season. That's the attitude head coach Dave Taylor and his University of Regina Cougars women's basketball team are taking into this weekend as the club will play host to a stacked lineup at a CIS pre-season tournament at the Centre for Kinesiology, Health and Sport. The Cougars will. . . Read More
The last time Canada had a women’s basketball team in the Olympics, Chelsea Aubry was in Grade 11, a star forward for the blue and yellow Renegades at Grand River Collegiate in Kitchener. Guelph’s Natalie Achonwa was only seven — a house-league soccer goalie who had hardly even held a basketball. A dozen years later, the 10-year veteran of Canada. . . Read More
Chantal Vallee was attending the University of Windsor's athletic awards night when it suddenly occurred to her how much she stood out in the crowd, a fact that had nothing to do with the back-to-back CIS titles with her Lancers women's basketball team. "At our own banquet, when we stood up to give out awards. . . Read More
After 14 years, Lisa Thomaidis is taking a bench break. The University of Saskatchewan Huskies women's basketball coach - who upgraded the program from perennially awful to national contender in the years after her 1998 arrival - is taking a one-season leave of absence. Her replacement is former Regina resident Jill . . . Read More
Dave Taylor finally connected. The head coach of the University of Regina Cougars women's basketball team said Tuesday that he has tried to recruit a player out of Ontario in each of the past four years. After three swings and misses, Taylor succeeded this off-season when he landed Katie Polischuk out of Brantford, Ont.. . . Read More
Never one to rest on her laurels, Windsor Lancers coach Chantal Vallee unveiled a prize recruit Friday just four days removed from guiding the team to a second straight CIS women's basketball title. Also not one to miss a golden opportunity to promote the program, Vallee timed her announcement to coincide with an elite . . . Read More
For two years, the Western Mustangs women's basketball team has been knock, knock, knockin' on a championship door. It didn't happen and now the door is a little harder to open. The Mustangs open their regular season at home Friday when they take on the York Lions at Alumni Hall. They open the season with a new coach. . . Read More
Emma Wolfram is used to being a big fish in a relatively small pond, but she found herself feeling somewhat petite at the Pan American Games last month. Wolfram, 16, helped the Canadian women’s basketball team to a sixth-place finish at the Games, which wrapped up Sunday in Guadalajara, Mexico. It was quite an eye-opener for . . . Read More
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