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Annual breakfast will benefit high-calibre UBC athletes

By Darren Handschuh on December 7, 2011

March 29 event will raise money for UBC's Okanagan teams

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Chris Rigg, left, with Capri Insurance, Heat basketball player Julian Asselstine, Tim Miller of Capri Insurance and Heat head coach Darren Semeniuk. Asselstine received the Capri Insurance Athletics Entrance Scholarship.

Asselstine wins prestigious Capri Insurance scholarship

By Darren Handschuh on November 30, 2011

Heat basketball player honoured to be selected

Posted in Media Releases | Tagged Athletics, Heat, Learning

Dangers of performance-enhancing drugs brought to Heat

By Darren Handschuh on September 30, 2011

Athletes get first-hand advice on damage drugs can do Clint Faught knows what he is talking about when he says the dangers of using performance-enhancing drugs are not worth the risk. He witnessed first-hand the destruction drugs such as anabolic steroids can cause and he recently brought that message to the University of British Columbia’s […]

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The Heat will be stepping up the level of competition this year in men’s and women’s basketball and volleyball after officially becoming members of the CIS.

Heat ready to take on the best in the West

By Darren Handschuh on September 7, 2011

Men and women’s teams compete in CIS for first time The University of British Columbia’s Okanagan campus Heat are ready to meet some of the best intercollegiate teams in the land, and the action begins this fall. This marks the first year the men’s and women’s volleyball and basketball teams will compete in Canadian Interuniversity […]

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Heat ready for the big leagues of university sport

By Patty Wellborn on August 26, 2011

Sports action will be getting even hotter on campus with the Okanagan Heat taking on some of the top university teams in the nation.

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CIS president Leo MacPherson congratulates Rob Johnson, director of athletics at UBC’s Okanagan Campus

UBC's Okanagan teams to compete at Canada's highest level

By Patty Wellborn on June 17, 2011

Heat basketball and volleyball will go head to head with UBC Thunderbirds

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Bicycle racing champion Axel Merckx. (Photo by Eric Houdas)

Olympic cyclist Axel Merckx at Valley First UBC Athletics Scholarship Breakfast April 8

By Bud Mortenson on March 25, 2011

World-renowned Belgian bicycle racing champion Axel Merckx is the keynote speaker for this year’s Valley First UBC Athletics Scholarship Breakfast, set for April 8 at Kelowna’s Coast Capri Hotel. Merckx enjoyed a remarkable racing career, including winning an Olympic medal in 2004. He began his professional cycling career in 1993 as a member of Team […]

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Second-year human kinetics student Judah Campbell and third-year nursing student Natalie Kloosterman are excited by the addition of rugby to the Heat varsity athletics program at UBC’s Okanagan campus.

New UBC Okanagan Heat rugby team goes to nationals

By Jody Jacob on March 9, 2011

Men's and women's rugby is the newest addition to varsity athletics at UBC’s Okanagan campus.

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From left, Rob Johnson, Director of Athletics and Recreation at UBC's Okanagan campus, with Heat women's volleyball head coach Steve Manuel, Capri Insurance scholarship recipient Chandler Proch, and Capri Insurance partners Tim Miller and Chris Rigg.

Local athlete awarded Capri Insurance Athletics Entrance Scholarship

By Jody Jacob on November 30, 2010

Chandler Proch, a first-year human kinetics student at UBC's Okanagan campus, is the recipient of the second annual Capri Insurance Athletics Entrance Scholarship.

Posted in Media Releases | Tagged Athletics, Heat, Human Kinetics

UBC Okanagan Heat unveiled at scholarship fund-raiser

By Bud Mortenson on March 28, 2008

The Okanagan is known for its heat. Now, so is UBC Okanagan. After a year of public consultation in search of a name for its sports teams, UBC Okanagan unveiled its new varsity athletics team name – the UBC Okanagan Heat – at this morning’s third-annual Valley First UBC Okanagan Athletics Scholarship Breakfast. “We are […]

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