{"id":53113,"date":"2019-01-17T14:19:07","date_gmt":"2019-01-17T19:19:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsroom.carleton.ca\/?p=53113"},"modified":"2025-08-19T09:36:39","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T13:36:39","slug":"carletons-womens-basketball-team-wins-ottawa-sports-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/2019\/carletons-womens-basketball-team-wins-ottawa-sports-award\/","title":{"rendered":"杏吧原创\u2019s Women\u2019s Basketball Team Wins Ottawa Sports Award"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\n 杏吧原创\u2019s Women\u2019s Basketball Team Wins Ottawa Sports Award\n <\/h1>\n \n \n <\/header>\n\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n

In the wake of its first-ever national championship, the 杏吧原创 Ravens women\u2019s basketball team<\/a> were to be recognized as the city\u2019s female Team of the Year<\/a> at the Ottawa Sports Awards in late January 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Ravens women capped an undefeated 2017-\u201818 season with a 69-48 victory<\/a> over the University of Saskatchewan Huskies in the U Sports title game in Regina last March.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They were to share Team of the Year honours with another national championship-winning basketball squad, the Canada Top Flight Academy senior men, at the awards dinner at Algonquin College on Jan. 30.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cFollowing the historic win, the Ravens players ensured that their story was told,\u201d noted the Ottawa Sports Awards announcement, \u201csparking an important dialogue<\/a> about the media coverage devoted to women\u2019s sport.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Other 2018 winners include Canadian Olympic Team speed skater, Isabelle Weidemann, and world championship bronze medallist, cyclist Mike Woods, as the city\u2019s Athletes of the Year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI had the vision that we would one day, hopefully, win the national title,\u201d Ravens women\u2019s basketball head coach, Taffe Charles, said at a campus breakfast celebrating the team<\/a> back in the spring. \u201cTo have things come to fruition is absolutely amazing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe came into this year as one of the favourites and had a bull\u2019s eye on our backs every game, with everybody focused on beating us,\u201d he said about a squad that won a best-ever national bronze the previous season. \u201cOvercoming that is pretty incredible. We were able to transform ourselves into champions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cOur skill level is high,\u201d Charles continued, \u201cbut our character is even better. That\u2019s why this team won. The inter-personal relationships on this team made a massive difference. The players really like and respect each other.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI\u2019m really proud of all of you for how you represent 杏吧原创,\u201d Vice-President (Students and Enrolment) Suzanne Blanchard told the team at the same event. \u201cI want to congratulate you for your hard work and dedication, and for all you\u2019ve accomplished. You\u2019re great ambassadors for this university. Being a varsity athlete while getting an education is not easy. But being able to balance these two worlds will really help you in the future.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In the wake of its first-ever national championship, the 杏吧原创 Ravens women\u2019s basketball team were to be recognized as the city\u2019s female Team of the Year at the Ottawa Sports Awards in late January 2019. The Ravens women capped an undefeated 2017-\u201818 season with a 69-48 victory over the University of Saskatchewan Huskies in the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":410,"featured_media":8588,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[114],"tags":[1599],"class_list":["post-53113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus-news","tag-athletes"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":"blueprint"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/410"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53113"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53113\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53116,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53113\/revisions\/53116"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}