“There are not a lot of errors in this league,” he says. “Every game is really important. Everybody is good including their benches.”
Niemantsverdriet says scholarships are very important to student athletes.
“To have the chance to play and get an education is a privilege not a lot of students have,” he says.
Rob Johnson, director of athletics and recreation at UBC's Okanagan campus, says the first year of Canada West competition met all expectations.
“We knew it would be challenging and we believed we could compete. Our student athletes and coaches really stepped up," says Johnson. "We didn’t win as many games as we would have liked, but we won more than anyone outside UBC’s Okanagan campus predicted. What is more important to me than winning, our student athletes competed as hard as they could, the whole game, every game. You can’t ask for any more than that.”
Johnson says the Okanagan campus is starting to establish a reputation with recruits.
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