When I was 16, I watched a friend get verbally bullied before being beaten up at my high school. I decided I needed to take up martial arts to prevent that happening to me. The only problem was, I didn't know anything about martial arts or where to start.
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It was a good night to be a T-Bird fan on Friday at Doug Mitchell.
It wasn't the prettiest weekend for the T-Birds.
With the points this weekend, UBC has clinched a playoff spot and are in good position to host a first round playoff series.
The team now sits comfortably in second place in Canada West — they've already solidified a playoff spot, with six games to go in regular season.
On Saturday, the UBC loggers’ sports team hosted their third annual intercollegiate competition. This time though, the lumberjack typecast was thrown out the window — about half the competitors were lumberjills.
It's a new chapter for both fourth-year Danae and first-year Grant, the Shephard siblings.
The first T-Birds 5-on-5 of this semester is kicking off with five athletes who are as excited about the Olympics as we are!
“We’re playing better basketball than we did earlier in the year…,” UBC head coach Deb Huband said post-game. “We’ll see what we can do in the post-season starting next week.”
“Phil [Jalalpoor] put on a special performance, Conor [Morgan] did his thing and so did Luka [Zaharijevic], and to do it in front of the home crowd, in front of friends and family is very special.”
Though not their prettiest win — the two teams would not be able to decide a victor through three periods or either overtime period — the T-Birds would earn some positive momentum heading into their final games of the regular season.
"To be a presence here and to show what university track is all about is equally important for us.”
It turns out that if you write ‘Part 1’ in an article title, the good people at The Ubyssey will inevitably ask you where ‘Part 2’ is.