2010 TWU sports in review

Posted by admin on Apr 13, 2010 in Sports | 0 comments

The 2009-2010 sports season at TWU has been another fantastic, enthusiastic, and busy year. The amount of stories to cover, the proposals for new equipment and facilities and many other different forms of information have come and gone once again. Rating the importance and substance to these stories is an impossible task, but to leave critical stories and events without somehow remembering the memories, the disappointments, and the friends made through these spectacular events seems wrong too.

The top story of the year goes to the women’s Spartans soccer team for winning their second consecutive CIS National Championship. The amount of difficulty in winning even one championship is hard enough, let alone doing it in back-to-back years. However, while the top story may tell you the result of the sporting event, it doesn’t tell you how. The reason it is the top sports story this year is how they won. Kristen Funk’s incredible goalkeeping in the shootout along with a goal of her own paved the way for the Spartans to beat the Queen’s Gaels to advance to the final. In the end, the Spartans beat PEI to win the 2nd consecutive championship, as well clinching Trinity’s top sports story of the year.

On the other side of the pitch, the men created some of their own excitement, hosting the CIS National Championships. While the dreams of winning a national championship at home didn’t work out, not even the poor weather and field conditions could stop the Spartan Faithful from coming out in numbers, supporting their team in one of the most suspenseful shootouts in recent memory. Their semi-final was devastating in many ways, but their quarterfinal and third place games were terrific.

On the basketball side, neither the men’s nor women’s teams really generated anything of value. The women’s team did poorly and the men’s team was utterly disappointing. With no berth in the playoffs for either team, the Spartan basketball teams did earn themselves one nomination, the “Figure it Out” award. TWU is waiting to hop on the bandwagon and truly embrace a winning basketball program at TWU. However, with high expectations and poor results, hopefully recruiting for the upcoming season will present some gifts.

On the volleyball court, the Spartans teams both enjoyed a successful campaign that saw the men in the CIS Championship and the women lose in the playoffs. Unlike the basketball side, the Spartans who enjoy spiking and digging actually met and surpassed expectations. Both teams clinched spots in the playoffs and had successful regular season play to earn themselves a chance for national glory. While the men’s team ended up losing in the final in the classic volleyball match up against Alberta, both teams look on track for a successful campaign in the upcoming season.