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By Dylan Hackett, Staff Writer

hile the Royals’ soccer

season is at its peak

of intensity leading
up to the PACWEST Provincial
Championships at UBC Okanagan
in Kelowna on the October 28-30
weekend and the CCAA National
Championships being held in Quebec
City, a host of other Royals teams
are kicking off their 2011-2012 this
October.

The Royals volleyball season
started this past weekend with the
women’s team taking two unfortunate
defeats to the University of the Fraser
Valley Cascades. Men’s team played
a mirror suite of games also against
UFV and fared better with a loss on
Friday night and a win to end the
weekend on Saturday. Next week
the women and men play twin away
games at Capilano against their Blues
on both Friday and Saturday with

matches commencing at 6:00 p.m.
and 7:45 p.m. respectively. Douglas
hosts the PACWEST Volleyball
Provincial Championships this
season on the 23-25 of February 2012
at the New Westminster Campus.

Currently in swing is the 2011
CCAA Golf Championships which
are being hosted by Holland College
of Charlottetown, Prince Edward
Island with Douglas College being
represented by 2011 PACWEST
Golfer of the Year, Kate Weir.
Updates and results will be posted
on the CCAA Golf website: www.
ccaagolf2011.ca. The tournament
runs from the 18-21 of October on
the Brudenell River Golf Course in
Roseneath.

The Royals badminton season
begins this weekend with the first
of three PACWEST tournaments
being played out at Vancouver Island
University Campus in Nanaimo
on October 21 and 22. The third

     

tournament of the season will be
held at David Lam Campus at
the adjacent Pinetree Secondary
gymnasium on the 28-29 of January,
2012. Both provincial and national
championships are to be held at
Thompson Rivers University in
Kamloops on February 18-19, 2012
and March 1-3, 2012 respectively.

In November, Royals basketball
starts with the men playing their
first game against the UNBC
Timberwolves in Prince George. The
home opener will be at 8:00 p.m.
on Friday, November 18 against
the Vancouver Island University
Mariners. The women’s team will
play mirror games with their home
opener on the same night but at 6:00
p.m.

For continuous updates on
Douglas College Athletics, follow @
RoyalsAthletics on Twitter.