Category: Sports

By Lane Wade Cohesion, leadership, and a whole lotta teamwork. These are the characteristics needed for the Ryerson women’s basketball team to get back into playoff form next season. Although the women failed to make it into March Madness, in the battle of the sexes, they topped their male counterparts, who went on a 22-game […]

By Alison Northcott Every morning during the winter months when Lake Ontario is more of a skating rink than a rowing course, Ryerson’s rowing team gathers at 6 a.m. in front of the entrance to Kerr Hall East. I’ve seen them practice before at the Ryerson Athletic Centre. I used to watch them — mesmerized […]

By Adam Button the roller coaster the Ryerson Rams men’s volleyball team has been riding all season crashed to a halt on Thursday in Guelph. in a first round playoff math, the sixth-ranked Rams fell in three straight games to the third-ranked Guelph Gryphons (25,17, 25-21, 25-20). “We really showed inexperience, it was obvious,” said […]

By Jason Primo The Ryerson men’s basketball team played hard last weekend but fell short in both of their games. On Friday, the Rams faced the third-place Royal Military College Paladins. In the first half the Rams were sizzling from the field, shooting 52 per cent. Even though the Paladins sunk only 41 per cent […]

By Jason Primo At 2:15 p.m. on Jan. 27, Ryerson’s basketball star Errol Fraser’s life changed forever. “David Lowe, our school physiotherapist, told me that my basketball career here at Ryerson was over,” said Fraser, the OUA’s second leading scorer this season. The heartbreaking news came four weeks after Fraser hyper-extended his right leg during […]

By James Mirtle How quickly the Rams forget their winning ways. A week after their impressive 5-3 victory over the Royal Military College Paladins (2-15-0-1), the Ryerson men’s hockey team (2-15-0-0) lost two important games on the road, including an 8-0 pounding in a rematch with RMC. The Rams scored two goals early in the […]

By Matt Flemming Fifth-year guard Vlad Matevski walked off the court Sunday, his team having lost by 29 points, and summed up his team’s performance in one word, “horrible”. “We play with no heart. We have a lack of focus, lack of hard work and lack of energy,” Matevski said. The Ryerson men’s basketball team […]

By Lane Wade Three top-level performances this weekend gave the Ryerson women’s figure skating team something to talk about. The two-day invitational held at the University of Toronto’s Varsity Arena on Bloor Street saw first-place finishes by Ryerson’s Jessie Oliver-Laird in the Junior Silver Freeskate and by assistant captain Emily Bosomworth in the Senior Silver […]

By Adam Button Ryerson’s women’s volleyball team might be undersized and inexperienced but they are beginning to show promise. The team earned its second win of the season against Waterloo on Saturday, then nearly upset second place Western on Sunday. “Saturday was a big relief,” said rookie power hitter Tara Di Guiseppe. “We had to […]

By Adam Button For the first time ever, Ryerson men’s volleyball team made it to the national top ten last Wednesday. However, it’s likely to be a short reign at the number nine spot in the rankings after the Rams met defeat at Waterloo Saturday (25-20, 19-25, 25-20, 25-21). The high ranking was earned on […]

By Cybele Sack Frustrated with long line ups at campus hot spots? Well, the gym isn’t any better. Since the beginning of the new year, the Ryers14on Athletic Centre has been rammed with Resolutionists trying to work off those holiday pounds. According to Leona Mouliakis, RAC customer services coordinator, 500 new memberships were sold in […]

By Matt Flemming The Ryerson men’s volleyball team entered the first weekend of the new year with momentum on their side. After defeating the University of Toronto for the first time ever in the final of York’s Excalibur tournament to take the gold medal, the Rams returned home ready to make a push for a […]