Dates have been scheduled for when prospective St. Thomas Tommies student-athletes can battle for spots on some of their respective teams.
Below is the schedule for open tryouts. Several training camps and tryouts have already begun or taken place.
Track and Field: Info sessions are Nov. 1 and 2 at 7 p.m. at J.B. O’Keefe Fitness Centre.
Women’s Volleyball: Tryouts run Sept. 12 to 16.
Men’s Volleyball: Tryouts go from Sept. 12 to 15 at South Gym.
Sign up for the Washburn Golf Classic
Registration is open for the 2016 LeRoy Washburn Golf Classic tournament.
This year’s event goes Friday, Sept. 30 at the Kingswood Golf Course in Hanwell, just outside Fredericton.
The tournament, which has a scramble format, will begin with a shotgun start that morning at 9 a.m.
The cost to register is $140 per individual golfer or $560 per team of four players.
The registration fee includes green fees, golf cart rentals and lunch.
To sign up, contact athletics co-ordinator Jennifer Burry at (506) 452-0414 or at [email protected].
All proceeds from the tournament will support the STU Athletics Washburn Fund.
Former STU hockey player joins Vegas NHL scouting team
Former Tommies hockey player Vojtech Kucera is now a scout for the expansion NHL team in Las Vegas.
The Czech Republic native spent 18 seasons as a European scout for the Washington Capitals.
He will oversee the scouts for the same region in Vegas.
Kucera’s played for the now-defunct Fredericton Express of the AHL in the 1986-87 campaign.
The defenceman wore the green and gold at STU for three seasons in the 1990s.
The new Vegas NHL team will begin play next fall.
Ex-Tommies men’s hockey coach joins Hockey Canada
Former STU hockey bench boss Troy Ryan is now Atlantic female coach mentor for Hockey Canada.
The Halifax native was behind the bench of the men’s team – which folded last season – from 2011 to 2013, when he left STU and took over the Campbellton Tigers junior squad.
Ryan has also coached the Valley Wildcats junior franchise and led teams at national women’s camps, the World Junior A Challenge and the World Under-17 Challenge in previous years.
