The University of the Fraser Valley women’s volleyball team staged an epic rally on Friday evening against the top-ranked team in the nation, but the Vancouver Island University Mariners fended them off in the fifth set at the Envision Athletic Centre. The Mariners, first place in the PACWEST and holding the coveted Canadian Collegiate Athletic […]
Cascades Q&A: Jessica Zawada
Cascades Q&A is a periodic web feature where we fire a series of questions (some serious, others not so much) at a Cascades athlete. In the crosshairs this week is Jessica Zawada, a rookie forward with the women’s basketball team. Q: Give us some insight into rookie life. What’s the adjustment been like, both in […]
Weekend preview: Basketball, wrestling, volleyball all competing at home
Men's Basketball, Men's Volleyball, Women's Basketball, Women's Volleyball, Wrestling
The Envision Athletic Centre will be buzzing this weekend, as the Cascades basketball, wrestling and volleyball teams are all in action at home. The Cascades basketball squads take on their Canada West rivals, the Thompson Rivers WolfPack, while the wrestling program holds its annual Cascades Classic tournament. The volleyball teams are hosting their most exciting […]
Cascades’ Dulay, Funk win weekly awards
University of the Fraser Valley varsity athletes Manny Dulay and Jessica Funk have been honoured by their respective conferences for outstanding performances on the weekend. Dulay, a fifth-year point guard with the men’s basketball team, is the Canada West men’s third star of the week across all sports after sparking the Cascades (6-8) to an […]
Cascades finish sixth at inaugural Canada West women’s rugby sevens tournament
Wins eluded the fledgling University of the Fraser Valley women’s rugby sevens club in its Canada West debut in Edmonton this weekend, but simply taking the field to represent UFV was a victory in itself. The Cascades were unique in the six-team field, in that UFV doesn’t have an existing varsity 15s rugby program from which […]
Golden Bears overcome Dulay’s red-hot shooting to salvage weekend split with Cascades
A preposterous shooting performance from Manny Dulay wasn’t enough to secure a weekend sweep for the University of the Fraser Valley men’s basketball team, as they fell 95-78 to the Alberta Golden Bears in Edmonton on Saturday. Dulay, the Cascades’ fifth-year point guard from Surrey, B.C., swished eight of his 10 attempts from beyond the […]
Cascades’ comeback comes up short, Pandas hang on for three-point win
A furious fourth-quarter comeback by the University of the Fraser Valley women’s basketball team erased all but one point of a double-digit deficit, but the Alberta Pandas hung on for a 56-53 win. Playing at Edmonton’s Saville Sports Centre on Saturday evening, the Cascades found themselves down 25-18 after a defensive-minded first half, and the […]