Shuttlecock season is in full flight and the NAIT Ooks’ badminton team is on the road back to the nationals. Last season was unlike previous years – the team made it to the nationals but won no medals. Prior to last season, the Ooks had earned a national medal every...
Cassidy Taal has been chosen by the Canadian College Athletic Association (CCAA) Female Coach Apprentice Program to become a coaching apprentice for the NAIT Ooks women’s basketball team for the 2017-18 season. The goal of the program is to support graduating...
What’s the biggest difference between sitting volleyball and playing volleyball for the Ooks? “Well, the standing,” Sarah Melenka laughed. Sarah Melenka is a second year member of the women’s volleyball team at NAIT. She is also part of the Canadian sitting volleyball...
Earlier in the semester I came up with a feature for the sports section called “Fight Corner.” In one of these articles, I expressed how Edmonton’s fight community is thriving and will continue to thrive after the arrival of a UFC 215 here. The UFC hype, along with...
After the first regional tournament for the 2017-2018 season, the NAIT Ooks’ curling teams have high hopes to return to the nationals. The men’s team is the only team with a losing record so far. Jules Owchar is an Olympic experienced coach as well as the NAIT Ooks...
His eyes glowed as the fire roared within him. He’d been prepping for months and finally this was his moment. The crazed father sits up in the stands, more excited than he was for his wedding, as his house league peewee kid begins another year and steps on the ice....
It began with the television, a passive means of spending some time to relax, unwind, to escape the world after a long day of work. As the 20th Century closed, television became a natural way to spend several hours of free time, as normal and as frequent as a bowel...
NAIT’s Baking program chair, Alan Dumonceaux, is headed to Paris on Feb. 3 to represent Canada in the Masters de la Boulangerie. This is the Baking Masters – Dumonceaux describes it as the Olympics of the pastry world. “The World Cup of Baking is like the World Cup of...
NAIT’s tuition steering committee is meeting today, Dec. 14, which could have an impact on student fees or surcharges next year. On Nov. 30, the province announced a post-secondary tuition freeze for the fourth consecutive time into the 2018-19 school year. Although...
This past year was a huge year for news, both on and off campus. Here are some of the most memorable at NAIT this year: February 6: A student falls from the fifth floor of the CAT Building. February 10: A fire in the G-Wing causes $6.3 million in damage, shutting down...
