OVER THE EDGE

March 12 - March 26, 2006

Sports and Clubs

Noticeably Southern Selections

ANDREW BAILEY

Sports anp Giues Eoiror

Since the T-Wolf women’s team got a
bye through the first round and the T-Wolf
men’s team didn’t make the playoffs, the
turn out for the BCCAA Provincial Basket-
ball Championship opening ceremonies on
Thursday, February 28" was low, very low.
In fact if I had to ball-park the number of
UNBC students in attend-
ance I would guess two, and
of course [’m counting my-
self and my photographer,

’ International Club president
and man for all seasons,
Scott Beaton. As the team
names were called out and
the many players jogged on
to the court to be recognized
they looked up and realized
that there was virtually no-
body there to really, well,
recognize them. The few
fans that did turn out for the
ceremonies were there to
support other teams, most
likely the women’s teams
from Malaspina and Capi-
lano as they were scheduled
to play directly after the cere-
monies were over. Therefore
the crowd did not exactly
erupt when the announcer
called the home team UNBC
Timberwolves onto the floor,
but the women looked in
high spirits nonetheless as
they eyed up their opponents
from the other 5 teams from
around the province.

The ceremonies were brief,
highlighted by the honouring
of players who had earned
All- Star status among the
league. Among these play-
ers were UNBC’s own: Kady
Dandeneau who mate the
all rookie All-Star list; and }..
Jaclyn Nazareno who made
the first All-Star team. There
are two All-Star teams, a first
team and a second team, kind
of like the A and B teams you
remember from high school,
Nazareno made the A team. »
I love it when a plan comes
together.

Personally I think UNBC’s
Laurel Wallace and Carlye
Hickswere were grossly
over-looked by the selection
committee but maybe that’s
just because I bleed green
and gold. Victoria. based
Camosun College boasted the

‘highest number of All-Stars
selected from their women’s
team with thrée players go-
ing to the second All-Star
team and one going to the
all rookie team. Vancouver |
based Langara College also-}
had a strong showing 'as two
of their women were selected
to the first All-Star team and
one to the all rookie team.

Camosun College also won

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the honour of having both their men’s and
women’s coaches win coach of the year.
The selection of Camosun College men’s
coach Gord Thatcher was puzzling as many
believed Jamie Oei would win the coach of
the year award, hands down, as his Douglas
College Royals completed the season un-
defeated. I was personally shocked at the
selection of Camosun College women’s
coach Brett Westcott, which I think is ri-
diculous after watching him completely

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lose his composure here at UNBC, in a
game his girls lost to Loralyn Murdoch’s
UNBC Timberwolves. I’m going to chalk
that selection up to the all encompassing
southern bias as I strongly believe Murdoch
is a much stronger coach than Westcott, but
I’m not on the court, so what do I know?
Now go support local businesses by head-
ing downtown for some beer. Wait, didn’t
we used to be able to drink beer up here?

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Kady Dandeneau (far right) selected to All-
Rookie team!
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