SPORTS Academic Monitoring Comes to Douglas Brian McLennon, Interim Sports Editor This year, the Centre for Sport, Recreation, and Wellness (CSRW) is running an academic monitoring program for student athletes. This program is set up to make sure that students are going to class and manag- ing their course load along with all the extra responsi- bilities of being a student athlete. Students are asked to fill in a weekly report online to let the academic monitor know how they are doing and if they need any help. “Many students feel a little overwhelmed when entering college for the first time, and with student athletes, they have all the young adult responsibilities with the added stress of five or six days a week of practice and games. We implemented this program for our student athletes because we want them all to succeed and maybe if they have a designat- ed person to go to, they will ask for the help if they need it,” says academic monitor, Laura Selman. To that no one who needs help is missed. CRSW director of athletics, Lou Rene Legge says, “This is not a punishment, it’s part of being on a team. When one member of your group goes down, every- one suffers. Sometimes losing a player to academic dis- qualification devastates a team. We want to do what we can to prevent this from happening.” While it is expected that everyone will be honest in their reporting, the academic monitor will randomly call professors to check in on reports to ensure that students are getting the help they need. achieve this, every athlete will be involved to ensure Wrestling: Rose Named New Head Coach of Douglas Wrestling Brian McLennon, Interim Sports Editor Douglas College is proud to announce Steve Rose as the head coach of their wrestling program. The Regina native attended SFU and competed on its varsity wrestling team. He was an All-American and a member of the Canadian National Wrestling team under the tutelage of former Douglas College head coach and now National team head coach, Dave McKay. Rose has a B.SC in Biology, B.Ed from SFU, and a Masters Degree in Pest Management. He currently is a teacher in Maple Ridge. Woman's Rugby Hurricane Douglas Slams Nanaimo Dave Pearcey, OP Contributor Premier Division: Douglas 102 Nanaimo 0 The defending Premier Champions Hurricanes ventured out to Queens Park this past Saturday and ran into a Douglas cyclone. Granted, the Nanaimo team had lost some key players from last season and ended up playing short during the match, but the new-look host team from New Westminster had everything clicking on the day. Corinne Jacobsen led the way with four tries. Kari Horntvedt scored three tries and added five conversions for a total of 25 points. April Jones, Crystal Nikolai, and Melissa Klein added two tries each. Single tries went to Michelle Monchamp, Vickie Fullerton, and Laura Kinnear-Harmse. Stevi Schnoor also made good on six conversions. Douglas takes on Bayside next Saturday at 1:00pm at Queens Park. 1st Division: Douglas 37 Cowichan 14 It was Cowichan’s first game in First Division rugby, and they put up a good struggle until the game swung in the host team’s favour late in the second half. Douglas went up on the strength of a try by Liz Robbins, which was converted by Candace Barry. Barry then added a pait of penalty kicks to push the score to 13-0. Cowichan came back to within six points by halftime Tanya Leigh increased the lead by five after a set-up by Barry before another converted try brought Cowichan to with- in four at 18-14. The last ten minutes of the game belonged to Douglas, as Barry, Alicia Noger, and Brenna Glover all scored tries with Barry adding two converts. Douglas faces a big challenge against Velox next Saturday at Queens Park. Their opponents have picked up some nation- al team players who have transferred from Nanaimo. 2nd Division: Douglas 25 UBC 0 A perfect weekend for all three Douglas teams. Douglas took a 15-0 lead at halftime on tries by Tia Staller, Rikkilee Jones, and Ged Griffths. This was to be a “testimoni- al match” for former player and coach Griffiths, who was playing her last game of rugby. Jones and Hailey Cuming added tries in the 2nd half to complete the scoring.