Comments on: The winners, the losers

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By: awebb

awebb — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 22:19:44 +0000

GO GEEGEES. I’m disappointed that this review fails to mention that, while the GeeGees do lack a varsity team that dominates it’s sport entirely, many teams at the school rank consistently within the top teams in Ontario (especially club teams like baseball, waterpolo, ultimate frisbee, and rowing). The football team is always in contention for the vanier cup, the women’s soccer team barely loses a game, and ofthe men’s basketball team is a mere step behind the nationally renowned ravens. And those are just a few of the highlights of GeeGees sports teams…

This list of teams was extremely exclusive and barely scratched the surface of Inter-University sports. Perhaps a more comprehensive and fair look at the state of CIS competition would give more accurate insight into the world of Canadian varsity sport programs.

By: Sam

Sam — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 01:51:35 +0000

I agree, I’m proud to be a Gee-Gee! I love the originality of the name.

By: bill

bill — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 15:03:01 +0000

How about the University of Manitoba Bisons, for improper plurals

By: Clem

Clem — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 03:18:06 +0000

I don’t think the Gee-Gees nick name stinks at all. It is much more colorful than mundane names like the Lions,Ravens,Rams and other common animals.

The name has cultural connotations in the Ottawa Valley, where farmer settlers from Ireland called their work horses gee gees going back to the nineteenth century. They borrowed the name from race track slang in the British Isles.There a gee gee is the lead horse in a race, or the first horse out of the gate. Francophone farmers in Eastern Ontario and Western Quebec soon adopted it too. So, the name works in both English and French at Canada’s bilingual university.

Of course GG also stands for the school colours, Garnet and Grey. It is compatible with other Universities that use their colours as nicknames, such as the R&O of Laval and the Vert and Or of Sherbrooke.

The Gee-Gees have been around for more than a hundred years , won many championships, and nobody should mess with a fine old name steeped in tradition.

By: Andy

Andy — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 13:11:38 +0000

Nice to see university sport get a review here.
Western’s teams finished in the Top 5 in their division in 36 of 38 sports last year and in the market-driven men’s hockey, men’s basketball and men’s football made it to the national semifinals (and national finals in men’s hockey and football).
A clarification – RE: Da’shawn Thomas – he signed to the practice roster, not the full roster, and therefore it’s not like a former professional coming to the CIS. There are rules preventing that for a reason… do different than a player attending an NHL camp and – even after spending time with a semi-pro team, for example – coming back to play at the university level after being cut… players lose eligibility based on their forray into semi-pro sports.

By: Wesmen

Wesmen — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:44:35 +0000

The Wesmen name originates from the name of The University of Winnipeg’s founding college, Wesley College.

By: Laurier

Laurier — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 22:22:16 +0000

What about Laurier?

By: Gavin

Gavin — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 21:03:35 +0000

Where is the Guelph Gryphons cross country running team. The women’s team has won the past four CIS titles and look poised to take home the trophy again this year with their number one ranked team. The men are no different looking to pull in their 10th title in the past 13 years. What a program. Alot of the credit goes to coach Dave Scott-Thomas for his remarkable work woth the athletes. GO GRYPHONS!!!