NEWS RELEASES

08/02/10 - THIS WEEKEND ....Basketball !!

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Pre-game tailgate party Friday 5-7pm outside the gym Free BBQ for VIU Students.
A free rose (sponsored by Turley's Florist) for the first 75 ladies in attendance. On Saturday the first 75 VIU students to attend will receive a box of KD !!

08/02/10 - CONGRATULATION AILEEN HOLDER !!
Aileen was named Nanaimo's female athlete of the year (team) at the Nanaimo Sports Achievement awards banquet held on February 6th. Aileen was instrumental in leading the VIU Soccer team top the provincials and the Volleyball team to the CCAA Nationals in 2009. More details to come ...

08/02/10 - VIU TAKES RIVALRY
A clean sweep for the volleyball teams with the men winning 3-1 and the women going 3-0 over the Camosun Chargers. Kevin Basinger had a solid match with 13 kills (67% kill efficiency and 3.25 kills/game), 2 blocks, and 2 digs. The Men's Basketball team cruised to a 91-57 win while the Women's team battled to the buzzer .. losing 64-62.
Head Coach Bill McWhinnie of the women's basketball team comments "We lost a hard fought game vs Camosun friday night. We didn't come out with the intensity we needed in the first half and trailed by 9 at the half. We played much better after the half leading by 5 at the end of the 3rd quarter. Down the stretch, Camosun made plays while we were unable to and that was the difference".
A good crowd turned out on friday night including high school basket teams from Dover Bay and Ballenas, cheering on the Mariners and clinching the 2010 Island Rivalry Title for the 3rd consecutive year !!
This weekend is the final regular season home games and they should be great ones!!

03/02/10 - MARINERS CLEARLY ONE OF THE BEST IN CANADA
This weeks CCAA National rankings are in and VIU have all five teams ranked in the top ten making the Mariners one of the strongest overall Athletic programs in the country ... if not the best !!
Women's basketball have moved up to #3 and women's volleyball moved up to #7. Holding steady at #1 the Men's basketball, Men's volleyball at #5 and badminton #9.

02/02/10 - SPRING BREAK SOCCER CAMP!!
The VIU soccer program will be holding a spring break SOCCER CAMP March 8-12 with Ages 6-12 (Coed) going at 9-12am followed by ages 13-17 (Coed)at 12:30-3:30pm, each camp is $95. Camp fees include GST and a camp T-shirt.
Bill Merriman, Anup Kang, Shawn Fiddick and James Merriman will coach the camp with VIU players assisting. Location of the camp will be the Mariner Field. Regsiter by phone 250-740-6418 or fax/mail using Registration Form (pdf) .

Also you can donate your bottles at the two bottle depot's in town and a third in Ladysmith.
Anyone willing to donate their bottles.... the account is called VIU Womens Soccer
Locations: Nanaimo Bottle Depot 4-4151 Mostar Rd &1805 Fremont Rd.

01/02/10 - A PERFECT WEEKEND FOR VIU MARINERS
VIU volleyball made a clean sweep of the Selkirk Saints on home court this weekend.
The men had a 3-1 win on Friday night followed by a 3-0 win on Saturday afternoon, improving their record to 11-2, while the women went 3-0 on both days placing them 3rd in the BCCAA with a 9-4 record.
Ben Cudmore pounds his spike past the Saints block in photo on left ...
All the Volleyball stats from the weekend
Basketball action in Surrey saw the Mariners win all four games with scores of 68-59 and 91-47 for the women and 94-68, 87-66 on the men's side. A 11-2 record for the women have them in 2nd place in the league standing and the men are perfect at 13-0 for a 1st place ranking provincially and nationally !!
Read more on the Mbball games

28/01/10 -THE VIU EVENT STAFF ARE THE BEST !!
Last weekend the VIU Mariner event staff enjoyed an evening out together at the Splitsville bowling alley.
Thanks to our events staff and their leader Mike Stefan each weekend the Mariner games run smoothly . All the work the minor officials, announcers, mascots, videographers, cyberstats/dakstats technicians, gate people ....needs to be applauded !!

28/01/10 - 2010 VIU FUNDRAISER GOLF TOURNAMENT
VIU Mariners are hosting a golf tournament on April 9th at the Nanaimo Golf Club to raise funds to help support our student-athletes. The athletes will take part in the tournament acting as caddies ... max number of teams is 25, so register ASAP. Sponsors needed !!
For all the details see REGISTRATION FORM.

28/01/10 - BCCAA ATHLETES OF THE WEEK!!
Once again the Mariners have been recognized by the league as having the top performing athletes of the week. This week Rafal Korkowski and Brittany Knievel have been awarded the Athlete of the week honours !!
Rafal had an impressive 44 kills in two five set victories over CBC and Brittany's 38 points in limited minutes, contributed to the two wins over CBC !!

28/01/10 - VIU LEADING THE LEAGUE IN STATS...!!
Kryzsztof Orman of the Men's volleyball team is #1 in the BCCAA in aces and Andrew Kaban of the Men's Basketball team is averaging almost 19 points a game to put him #1 in scoring, while team mate Jacob Thom is #1 in assists. Many more VIU Mariners are on the leader board, see all the league leader stats on the BCCAA Website (soon to be updated)

18/01/10 - NOMINATIONS FOR WALL OF FAME!!
Its that time of the year when VIU Athletics accepts nominations for the 2010 induction to the Mariner Wall of Fame.Those selected will be honoured at the awards banquet slated for early April. Nomination Form

19/01/10 - VIU MARINERS NOMINATED!!
The Nanaimo Sports Achievement Awards will be held at the Coast Bastion Inn on February 6th and VIU Mariners will be well represented. Jacob Thom, Brittany Knievel, Aileen Holder, Bill Merriman, Tony Bryce, Men's Basketball team and the Men's Soccer team have all been nominated !! Read more in the NNB

18/01/10 - BADMINTON TEAM PLACES SECOND!!
The third and last BCCAA Badminton qualifying tournament for 2009-2010 took place at Douglas College on the weekend. VIU athletes were focussed and it showed- the squad finished the 3 game matches that have been narrow losses in the past. The team took 2nd place in the team event and moved up to 3rd overall. Read more

KEVIN BASINGER
Volleyball

This weekend Kevin had his best performance of the season, which helped lead the Mariners to a 3-1 victory over the always dangerous Island Rivals, the Camosun Chargers.  Kevin finished the weekend with 13 kills (67% kill efficiency and 3.25 kills/game), 2 blocks, and 2 digs.  Although Kevin didn’t have any aces, he consistently put the Chargers in trouble with his serve.  The victory helped improve the Mariners to a 12-2 league record.  Kevin’s performance over the past few weeks has helped the Mariners balance out their offense.