His body was hurting and his grades were suffering. Chris Campbell was tired, but all he needed was a little time.
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Oregon hockey gearing up to #TakeBackTheCup
Daily Emerald, Hockey, Stories & Features, University of OregonFriday, Oct. 17, the Ducks hockey team will face Washington, the team’s biggest rival in the league, in the home opener at Lane Events Center. Each year, both teams square off in a brutal four-game series for the I-5 Cup.
Last year, Washington won in a shootout after splitting the series 2-2. The year before, Oregon took it home for the first time in four years after an overtime victory.
“We don’t play Oregon State in hockey,” senior goaltender Trevor Peterson said. “This is really our biggest rival. We have the I-5 Cup and that’s our thing, our big game.”
Unsatisfied with its brief time with the cup, the team has spent the last month releasing Youtube videos with the hashtag #TakeBackTheCup to pump up fans, and themselves, for the start of the regular season.
Passion for martial arts makes wushu’s Dana Macalanda a force to be reckoned with
Daily Emerald, Stories & Features, University of Oregon, WushuDana Macalanda was always into martial arts. She grew up watching Jackie Chan movies and was enrolled into taekwondo at age 10. She practiced her craft intermittently until the end of high school. She continued with martial arts all throughout college and joined the wushu club, which didn’t seem like a far-off next step for her. Except it was.
Wushu is entirely performance-based. In other words, no hitting.
Competition mishaps aren’t setbacks for the UO wushu club
Daily Emerald, Stories & Features, University of Oregon, WushuOn paper, the Collegiate Wushu Tournament looked like a bust for the three University of Oregon students who traveled to the University of Maryland on Saturday to participate.
They kept getting lost. There were fallen sashes and forgotten moves during forms. None of them placed.
However, for freshman Elirissa Hui and sophomores Wing Ng and Kevin Lai, the trip was anything but a failure. Despite their rankings, they all found reasons to consider it a success.
Wushu club finds longterm success despite not having a head coach
Daily Emerald, Stories & Features, University of Oregon, WushuThe wushu club is living out a lot of sports’ worst nightmares. Its members have a dedicated team ready to train, but no coach.
And that’s just the way they like it.
Kristen Shafer honors deceased friend by keeping her promise to fence
Daily Emerald, Fencing, Stories & Features, University of OregonEveryone has different reasons for joining club fencing. Some got into it by chance, some through a friend. Kristen Shafer, however, had very different reasons for fencing.
Because two years ago, Shafer watched the fencing trials in the London Olympics and thought: “I want to try that.”
Because deep down she wanted to be like the Olympians she had watched that day — even though she had never even held a sword.
Because she doesn’t break promises.
Club fencing’s Jared Gruen is eager to improve
Daily Emerald, Fencing, Stories & Features, University of OregonAll Jared Gruen planned to do was watch. He never thought he’d actually put on the uniform.
Two months ago, the UO senior came to club a fencing practice to visit his long-time friend, team coordinator Holly Bishop, along with his girlfriend Kristen Shafer, who had joined the team in the fall.
“He came to practice one day, and I was like, ‘Jared, go put on a uniform,’” Shafer said.
Initially Gruen resisted.
Sulitzer brothers play together for the first and last time
Daily Emerald, Hockey, Stories & Features, University of OregonDan Sulitzer has played ice hockey for 20 years. His brother, Alex, has played for 17. However, despite both having played since the age of 5, they’ve never played together.
At least, until now.
Dan and Alex wanted to change the fact that they had never been on the same team, so late in the summer of 2012, they made a pact: they would both attend the University of Oregon and play for the Oregon club hockey team together in the fall.
Broadcast brings players, fans and family together
Daily Emerald, Hockey, Stories & Features, University of OregonAt the beginning of the year, things were looking grim for Oregon club hockey.
The team was $13,000 in debt and risked having the plug pulled on their season.
Things needed to change.
Connor McBride pursues passion for music
Daily Emerald, Hockey, Stories & Features, University of OregonHis entire life revolved around hockey. That is, until music came along.
Music took a hold of senior Connor McBride’s life after he left The Hill School, a preparatory boarding school in Pennsylvania with a rigorous hockey program.
“Playing hockey there is like playing football here,” McBride said.