tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-69429250136665137292012-02-16T03:41:16.455-08:00The Vikes Horn is ready to make some noise! Vikes Athletics has launched a brand new blog, and it is the site to visit if you are a fan of the Vikes. The daily blog will change the way you follow your school's teams, linking Vikes fans to the latest news, videos and tidbits from the world of Canadian University Sports. After a huge 2008, Vikes Athletics is anticipating a even bigger 2009 and the Horn is going to be with you every step of the way!Thunder's Takehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17886152609851298297noreply@blogger.comBlogger451100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6942925013666513729.post-5309774828841551972009-03-11T21:41:00.000-07:002009-03-11T21:59:41.417-07:00

It's not very often that you see the UVic Men's Rugby team drop back to back losses at Wallace Field. After losing 32-23 against Gordon Head rivals Velox on Feb. 28, Meraloma edged out the Vikes last weekend with a convincing 38-28 win.With five of their starters returning this weekend against the Castaway Wanderers, however, Friday night's match at Centennial Stadium will be a different

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The awards for Kayla Dykstra and Vanessa Forstbauer just seem to keep on coming. Last night at the 2009 CIS Banquet Awards dinner, Dykstra and Forstbauer received national recognition for their outstanding seasons. Dykstra claimed the CIS Player of the Year award, to go along with her Canada West Player of the Year honours. The six-foot-two post was in a league of her own this season, leading

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In the battle for McCoy road bragging rights, the Velox Valhallians prevailed 32-23 over the shorthanded Vikes.Andrew Smith was at the game and submitted this report and video.

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The Canadian National Senior Men's Sevens team is off to Dubai on Friday, Feb. 27 for the Rugby World Cup Sevens. On the roster of Canada's 12 top sevens players are five Vikes - one of which has just been named Captain.Neil Meechan may not be a man of many words but he certainly leads by example. Whether it's on the international sevens circuit or back home playing in the CDI Premier Leauge,

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Kayla DykstraIn the most shocking news of the year, Kayla Dykstra of the Vikes women's basketball was named the Canada West MVP.Who would have ever thought the leader in scoring (18.6 p/g), leader in rebounding (11.2 p/g), the owner of the leagues top field goal percentage (61%) and the catalyst to the best defensive team in the conference would win the award. Still can't believe it.All jokes

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In case you're just tuning in this would be my "first post" seeing as I had to remove my last post. A long story short, my last post was considered "campaigning too early" when I said that I was running for the UVSS elections! So I had to remove the post and was disqualified! It's an unfortunate scenario, but more bizarre than anything. If you plan on running for the elections be sure to read the

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All of us students have sauntered down it before at some point during our time at UVic. Heading to Ian Stewart for a workout from campus or stumbling home from a night at Felicitas, McCoy Road is a staple thoroughfare for UVic students. Yet perhaps you didn't know that the skinny road is the only thing that separates the UVic Vikes rugby team's Wallace Field and their arch rival Velox

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There were a few moments on Tuesday where it looked like the UVic Vikes men's basketball team would be given a second chance in the 2009 Canada West Playoffs. Days after losing in the elimination Game 3 to the Trinity Western Spartans, the Vikes discovered that there was something not quite right with the Spartans lineup in Game 2 and 3.The violation was simple. The Spartans broke the playoff

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Ouch!This one is going to sting for a long time. A very long time.Playoff basketball came to a screeching halt Saturday night, as both the Vikes men's and women's basketball teams dropped heart breakers in do-or-die situations.The Men (Game 3 vs TWU)Over in Langley the men came out in the do-or-die game three flatter than a 99 cent slice of Second Slice Pizza. The Spartans used their crazy crowd

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First off gotta say sorry for the delay in getting a new playoff post up on the Horn. A couple of ferry rides will cause that.But how about the series that is shaping up over in Langley! Wow. The Horn was over there on Thursday and what an absolute mad house the David E. Enarson Gymnasium is. Just a incredible atmosphere and an incredible game Thursday night. The Vikes weathered an early Spartans

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Playoff hoops is finally upon us.Starting tonight the men and women's Vikes basketball teams will embark in what they hope will be a long and prosperous journey to national greatness.The men will start their best-of-three series tonight in Langley against their old buddy Jacob Doerkson and his upstart Trinity Western Spartans. As the playoff preview discusses, the Vikes will not only have to

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The women's basketball team is just finishing up a good week of practices to get ready for the playoffs against the UBC Thunderbird's this weekend. We're super happy to be playing in Mckinnon gym in front of a home crowd for the first time in any of our careers at UVIC. The only downside to playoffs? We don't get to watch the men's team take on the Spartans in their own playoff challenge. The

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After weeks of promising, the Horn has finally delivered some game highlights. This video is a recap of Seniors night on Saturday, as the Vikes men rolled all over the Thompson Rivers WolfPack. Mitch Gudgeon's 3 first half dunks are all included. Look for full video/highlight recaps of both the men's and women's first round playoff series next week.

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The Vikes Mitch Gudgeon had a few dunks on the weekend that were impressive, but not quite as impressive as the one that Ryerson's N'Kruma Hylton threw down back in December. Love the bench!

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Lost in all this chatter about playoff basketball is the scorching hot start by the UVic Vikes men's rugby team. The reigning Island Champs from the fall season are a perfect 3-0 to start the CDI B.C. Premier League and sit atop the standings with 13 points.This Saturday the Vikes will head up the Malahat for a date with the Cowichan Piggies. The Piggies come into the weekend sitting in eleventh,

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Wow! the regular season is over, and we have finished on a roll which is awesome.Just thought I would give you a sneak peek at the week ahead for the woman's basketball team as we prepare for playoffs. Come tomorrow it is right back to work to get ready to go. ONLY three practices to go until it is DO or DIE time. The week will be spent trying prepare as best we can for the UBC Thunderbirds.

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It took six seasons, 128 games, and 5120 minutes of basketball. Finally, after years of futility and frustration, it happened.Congratulations RMC. Hope you celebrated accordingly!

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No more trial runs. No more experimenting. And certainly no more opponents with 2-and-20 records. It's time to start growing the beards and dusting off the towels.The Vikes men's and women's hoops teams dimmed the lights on the 2008-09 regular season this past weekend. In the final two contests of the season, a couple of Vikes stars shone very bright and gave the McKinnon faithful fans tons of

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We talked about it yesterday on the Horn and here is another piece on Mitch and Tyler's five year career with the Vikes. The video starts playing about 8 seconds in. I like Jordan Cunnigham's question to the guys about if they are going to cry during the ceremony. The Horn's prediction is Tyler no, Mitch.....maybe.Its okay Gudge, we wont judge

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She is the queen of the intangibles. Constantly doing what Head Coach Brian Cheng refers to as the "dirty work". Without her the Vikes unstoppable high-low offense, that leads to so many easy baskets for post Kayla Dykstra, would have no high. And to think her college career could have easily been cut short if it wasn't for successful off-season surgery.Vanessa Forstbauer's return to the Vikes

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One is perhaps the most athletic player to ever suit up for the Vikes. The other is possibly the toughest player to don the blue and gold in quite some time. One terrorized opponents above the rim, while the other made his living in the paint. One was renown

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Teams are always trying to deliver that knock-out punch in the final minutes of a close basketball games. It can be a big three pointer or a massive dunk to put an explanation point on a victory.However, the Assistant Coach of the St FX X-men took that to a whole new meaning in a recent game against Cape Breton. With his team down 3 points with 12 seconds to go, Gary Gallimore became irate at the

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Thanks Jane for the birthday shout out. It was a great way to spend the weekend having two wins.One more practice to go before the last weekend of regular season games...wow does the season fly by fast. From training camp in September, first league games in October and now almost on to playoffs. It is a great feeling to know that we have home court advantage going in to the first round. It will

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The talk of Vikes women's basketball this year has undoubtedly been Kayla Dykstra, who had yet another unbelievable weekend against Calgary and Lethbridge. Thunder pretty much summed up the games but what he failed to mention was that it was also Kayla's birthday on Friday! Not a bad way to enter her 22nd year. So, on behalf of the womens basketball team, HAPPY BIRTHDAY KAYLA! keep on rockin.

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First things first. What a game!Friday night's men's basketball showdown at Shields Court was what college hoops is all about. Two nationally ranked teams playing a spirited back and forth game in front of a jam packed crowd with the final outcome unclear until the final horn. The highly anticipated match up exceeded expectations and was by far the best game at Mckinnon Gym this year.The Dinos

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Thanks to a forfeit last weekend by the Burnaby Lakers, the Vikes didn't even need to take the ferry ride to the mainland to pick up a week one victory. Tomorrow at Wallace Field the Vikes will take to the pitch the first time in the 2009 CDI Premier League when they host the Vancouver Rowers at Wallace Field.BCRugbynews has the Vikes favored by 12.Horns PredictionThe Vikes will be playing

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Woody Harrelson proved it through his role as a basketball hustler playing in the streets of Southern California.Chris "the Birdman" Anderson tried to prove it, but failed miserably in the 2005 NBA slam dunk competition.What i am talking about of course is the notion that white man can jump.Over the past few years another baller is doing his best to make even the most nonathletic, Canadian proud.

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Rowers are a tough breed to figure out. Aside from the way-too-early mornings, it's the concept of sitting on your ass going backwards while someone yells at you to "STROKE" that seems a little bizarre. I guess in the context of conventional sports that is.So Sunday's event at McKinnon Gym, on the Superbowl of all days, should really leave one head's spinning at the strangeness of it all. What

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Another weekend and another 4-for-4 performance by the Vikes men's and women's basketball team.On Saturday, the women had a much tougher time with the Thompson Rivers Wolfpack than they did on Friday, but still escaped with a hard fought 63-54 road victory. The Vikes, who actually trailed with two and a half minutes remaining, played some clutch basketball down the stretch scoring the final ten

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Hey, my names Jeff Cullen and I'm a 3rd year guard on the Men's Basketball team. This is my first time writing a blog for the Vikes Horn, and I'm doing it from my hotel room in Kamloops. We're here to play two games against Thompson Rivers University. Last night was the first of two, and we came away with a decisive win in a good team effort. We play them again in a few hours, and if we get off

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The Thompson Rivers men's and women's basketball teams have combined for a total of five wins this season. That number didn't change on Friday.The women were led by a 17-point effort from Vanessa Forstbauer en route to a 71-57 victory over the hometown 'Pack. Forstbauer, who is primarily known for her efforts on the defensive end, showed she can also put up some numbers, going 7 of 12 from the

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The start to the 2008-09 season will have to wait a little longer for the Vikes men's rugby team, as the Burnaby Lakers forfeited todays season opener against the Vikes because of unplayable field conditions. Supposedly most fields in Vancouver are still frozen and Burnaby was unable to find a field in time for the 2:45 PM kickoff. The Vikes offered to host the game at Wallace field but Burnaby

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The Island Champs get their first taste of CDI B.C. Premier league competition this Saturday when they travel to Burnaby to take on the Burnaby Lakers. Kick off will go at 2:45 at the Burnaby Lake Sports Complex (The venue could change due to weather conditions). Hopefully the Barnard Cup Champ Vikes will teach a certain hockey team that practices in Burnaby how to win a game.The full season/

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Michael Phelps swam here.Well not here, as in the McKinnon Gym, but here in Victoria at Commonwealth Pool. Just saying that makes the chlorinated waters of Commonwealth akin to holy water. At least in some circles.But now that I got your attention by name-dropping the greatest Olympian, and coincidentally greatest Halloween costume inspiration of the past year, lets turn our attention to some

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You never know what the brain trust in charge of the CIS Top Ten rankings are going to come up with. The unpredictability and eastern biases often leaves western schools pondering the crazy formula. However, the Top Ten gods have shone down on the Island this week, as the Vikes Women moved up three spots to No. 6 and the Men jumped a couple spots to No. 8. Considering the Vikes only knocked off

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The Vikes went a perfect 4-0 at Shields court this weekend.Saturday's early contest saw the Vikes Women play a complete four quarters of basketball to knockoff the CIS No. 6 ranked Winnipeg Wesmen 69-56. Jane Anholt led all scorers with 20, and Vanessa Forstbauer put the defensive clamps on Amy Ogidan, the reigning CW Rookie of the Year and 4th leading scoring in the conference. Ogidan who

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After nearly a two month absence from McKinnon Gym, the Vikes men's and women's hoops team returned to their home court and took care of business, defeating the Manitoba Bisons in both contests.The women were led by their superstar Kayla Dykstra, who posted a double double (15 pts, 12 'boards) to lead her side to a 66-43 victory. It was the fourteenth time Dykstra has led her team in scoring. The

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Check out the Times Colonist Article by Ron Rauch. The piece gives some much deserved love towards Kayla Dykstra and the Vikes effort on the defensive end this season.

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The UVic Vikes rugby team continues to be the breeding ground for National sevens players, as six Vikes have been selected to the National Sevens team. Sean Duke, Ben Grant, Jordan Kozina, Phil Mackenzie, Neil Meechan and Gordie Sawers get the nod to represent Canada at the International Rugby Board events in Wellington (Feb 6-7) and San Diego (Feb 14-15)For more about the team, check out http:/

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The Manitoba Bisons and Winnipeg Wesmen make the long flight to the Island for a pair of weekend contests at Shields Court. After last weekends loss to the Spartans the Vikes men team dropped to 3rd in the Pac. Division and cling on to the #10 spot in the CIS National Rankings. The women also earned a split on the weekend and remain as the # 8 ranked team in the nation. The girls however used

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After a slow start to the 08-09 campaign, and finding himself on the wrong end of coach Beau's substitution patterns, Jeff Cullen needed a break through game to reassert himself in the lineup. He got that on Friday. The Oak Bay grad and Victoria native went off from beyond the arc, knocking down five treys en route to a game high 19 points. It's good to see Cullen get back on track and provide

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The Vikes Men's basketball team came out of the mainland on the weekend with a split, knocking off SFU 78-53 on Friday night, but falling 87-83 to the Trinity Western Spartans the following night. Saturday's win for the Spartans gives them the all important tie-breaker against the Vikes, as they take the season series 2 games to 1. Both teams now sit with an identical 10-5 record, and have 8

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The B.C. Premier league has announced the schedule for the upcoming 2009 spring season. The schedule will see the Vikes play 3 of their first 4 contests away from Wallace Field, including the season opener on January 24th against the Burnaby Lake Rugby Club. The reigning island champs will than return back home for a string of three straight home games, accumulating on Mar 14th when the Vikes

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Fans of UVic rugby and the BC Prem. league have been treated to his skill, grit and overall beastliness for years, but now the national stage is beginning to realize just how good Adam Kleeberger is. Kleeberger, or "kleebs" as hes known on the pitch, spent the majority of the fall playing on Canada's national team, where he was without question the consensus pick as Canada's top player. The back

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A long break and buckets of snow couldn't cool off the lady Vikes, as the girls continued to turn some heads this past weekend, disposing of UCFV 57-40 on Jan 2nd, and 77-54 the following night on the 3rd. The girls success so far this season (8-5, 2nd in Can West) has bolted them up to 9th in the National Polls. A home playoff series for Mr. Chengs squad is quickly becoming a reality. Check out

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