Lancer captain leads by example on, off track By Chris Kerr
Sports Editor August 5, 2009 Raeleen Hunter will be the first to tell you that track athletes need to train year-round. But for her, living and learning are much the same way.
 The Beaumont, Alberta native and women’s co-captain of the 2009 Lancer Track and Field Team, spends her off-season training and working in the community. Hunter, who transferred to the University of Windsor from West Virginia University, finds the Human Kinetics program suits her well, and Canada is where she belongs.
Hunter is entering her fifth year and cites many reasons for the move back to Canada. >> | Lancers to face top NCAA teams By Chris Kerr
Sports Editor August 5, 2009 The Windsor Lancers Men’s Basketball team will kick off their pre-season by hosting two, top ranked NCAA Division 1 teams at the St. Denis Centre.
 The Lancers will play the Ohio State Buckeyes in Windsor on Aug. 28 and 29 at 6 p.m. The Lancers will then face the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets in two separate games on Oct. 3 and 5 at 7 p.m.
The squad will have their work cut out for them as both Ohio and Georgia Tech are strong forces in the Atlantic Coast Conference and Big Ten Conferences and both hold impressive spots in the NCAA pre-season top 25 for the fall.
“We are thrilled to have Ohio State and Georgia Tech coming to play us in the fall,” said Lancer Head Coach Chris Oliver. >> | Sharing the language of sport By Chris Kerr
Sports Editor August 5, 2009 More than 40 Japanese students recently visited Windsor to celebrate cultural traditions.
Among these traditions was an emphasis on Japanese and Canadian national sports.
The students of the all-girl Catholic middle-school in Fujisawa provided archery and kendo demonstrations. Kendo is a type of martial art fencing based on traditional Japanese swordsmanship.
The sport of Kendo, practiced by these young school girls of Fujisawa and throughout the rest of Japan, is a physically and mentally challenging activity that combines strong martial arts values with sport-like physical elements.
At the end of the impressive Kendo and archery exhibitions, the young Japanese students turned to a packed Freed Orman Centre, gracefully bowed, and then thanked their audience for watching.
It was characteristic of the Japanese to be polite and disarming, even though they were armed with bows, arrows, and swords. >> |
