Posted in Athletics on Dec 15th, 2010 No Comments »
Grade 9 Girls Basketball The Grade 9 girls basketball team had their first league game, facing Spencer in what turned out to be a competitive contest. SMUS led for the majority of the game, with a great attack from Vivian Lam, contributing 8 points while Chris Chen and Yasmin Roudsari each chipped in with 4 [...]
Posted in Athletics on Dec 10th, 2010 No Comments »
Grade 8 Boys Basketball The Grade 8 boys basketball team completed their pre-Christmas season undefeated, thanks to important City playoff semifinal and final victories. With BC tournament qualification at stake, the squad first met a tenacious Cedar Hill outfit, and, despite being outrebounded, used strong defence and a blistering fast break to prevail 56-33. Owen [...]
Posted in Athletics on Dec 6th, 2010 No Comments »
Senior Girls Basketball The Senior girls basketball team opened play this week in an exhibition series. The team faced Belmont on Friday afternoon, winning 76-17. The Blue Jags were led by Madison “McGoo” Hadfield (19 pts), Abbey “Zeke” Piazza (17 pts) and Cliona “Qube” Quail-Bradley (13 pts). Allie “Legs” White chipped in with 10 rebounds. [...]
Posted in Athletics on Nov 16th, 2010 2 Comments »
Rowing Thirty-nine athletes and six coaches experienced another successful city championships! Over three days and 18 hours of racing the rowers endured lots of rain, mud, wind, fog and chilly temperatures. SMUS entered 13 of the 22 events and competed against 16 other high schools, making 10 finals. Unfortunately the fog played havoc on the [...]
Posted in Athletics on Nov 11th, 2010 No Comments »
Junior Boys Soccer The last week of Junior boys soccer season started out badly but ended triumphantly. On Monday, the boys faced Oak Bay, a side they had beaten during the regular season. This match, though, was for third place in the city. The team played well but went down a goal in the first [...]
Posted in Athletics on Nov 2nd, 2010 No Comments »
Senior Cross Country The Island Championships took place last Wednesday at Beaver Lake. The conditions were a little muddy, but all things considered, it was a perfect day for cross country. In all, there would be approximately 250 entries in both the girls race and the boys race. For SMUS, we had 20 runners total. [...]
Posted in Athletics on Oct 25th, 2010 No Comments »
Middle School Cross-country The Middle School cross-country team wrapped up their season this week with some fantatic results! After six weeks of practicing on all sorts of terrain and in every possible weather condition as well as participating successfully in four races with the Lower Island League, a loyal group of 13 athletes raced in [...]
Posted in Athletics on Oct 18th, 2010 No Comments »
Senior Girls Volleyball After a busy Thanksgiving weekend, the team went into the second week of league matches against Reynolds and Saint Margaret’s. In the first match against Reynolds, the team started strong. With some good serve-receive passing from our libero Michelle Yim and offside Tanya Rossa, Leah Hall was able to run an effective [...]
Posted in Athletics on Oct 12th, 2010 No Comments »
Junior Boys Soccer The second week of the Junior Boys soccer season was not nearly as busy as the first but was every bit as exciting. On Monday, the team faced their arch rivals, Oak Bay, in what turned out to be one of our most exciting games of the season so far. Still feeling [...]
Posted in Athletics on Oct 7th, 2010 No Comments »
Field Hockey The SMUS 1st team played two league games last week. They were two very contrasting games – a superb 1-0 win in a crucial game against GNS on Monday, and a 4-0 loss to Claremont on Wednesday with a very depleted and weary team (in a game which did not count in league [...]