Hometown hero Nick Taylor took a trip to Paris this month; the University of the Fraser Valley (UFV) honorary degree recipient represented Team Canada at the 2024 Olympics.   Nick won the RBC Canadian Open in 2023, slingshotting himself all the way to the Olympic golf team. The 36-year-old Abbotsford local was the first Canadian to…

UFV volleyball’s Janelle Rozema has just experienced the most exciting challenge of her coaching career. The head coach of UFV’s women’s volleyball team traveled to the Dominican Republic to serve as assistant coach for Canada’s national women’s B (NextGen) team at a tournament in Santo Domingo. They competed against 11 other nations at the North,…

  Nick Taylor is a star in the world of professional golf. In 2023 he won his fourth PGA Tour event – the RBC Canadian Open, the first Canadian to do so since 1954 – and he’s currently the No. 32 ranked golfer on the planet. But he’s never forgotten his hometown of Abbotsford and…

Looking for fitness options that work well with your job or class schedules? Check out UFV Campus Recreation’s menu of offerings. Until January 20, you can try before you buy! The Try before you Buy event is for fitness classes, and drop-in sports. During this period, intramural times will also be run as a drop-in…

As the hometown Abbotsford Canucks battled the San Diego Gulls tooth and nail below on the ice recently, a familiar face within UFV sports circles roamed the arena with a camera in her hand and an employee credential dangling off her neck. Throughout the game, Sarah Parker deftly captured every slap shot and fan interaction,…

New and more inclusive changerooms, washrooms, and shower areas are coming to the UFV Athletic Centre (Building E). In line with UFV’s Equity, Diversity and Inclusion goals, the project creates space that is gender neutral and universally accessible. A central change area with private stalls will be flanked by self-contained team rooms bookended by washrooms…

On Sunday night, Mike Teigen and his family were inside their Honda Pilot just outside of Hope, BC, staring ahead at a highway submerged in water, when they realized they were out of options. They couldn’t go west on Highway 7 towards their home in Mission, as they had tried to 90 minutes earlier, because…

Put yourself in Ellie Sinclair’s shoes. Back on March 2, 2020, when she was introduced as part of the UFV women’s volleyball team’s class of incoming recruits, she had a very distinct picture of what her first year of university would look like. She’d attend in-person classes primarily on the Abbotsford campus, pursuing her Criminal…

There are a number of angles from which to analyze Al Tuchscherer’s longevity in his role as head coach of women’s basketball at the University of the Fraser Valley. The raw numbers paint a picture of sustained excellence: 18 seasons. Three conference championships and eight national championship berths (BCCAA and Canada West eras combined). Four…

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Explore university from a kids-eye view at UFV Chilliwack this summer It’s midsummer. Is boredom creeping in to your kids’ days? Send them to university for a week! The University of the Fraser Valley offers a variety of day camps to choose from. The Explore UFV camps offer a particularly intriguing way for kids to…

When Skip Bassford joined the University College of the Fraser Valley as its fourth president in 1998, he looked around the campuses and wondered where the gym was. He soon found out there was none. He knew that UCFV (as it was then known) had some very successful teams competing at the collegiate level in…

There was lots of grunt work and little glamour or glory for the coaches in the early years of UFV’s men’s soccer team, but the two co-coaches still count the experience as a highlight of their lives. And for their pioneering contribution to the founding of UFV’s soccer program, retired UFV professors Scott Fast and…

Denise Rehman (now Tuchscherer) was just a 17-year old kid from Langford on Vancouver Island when she started what turned out to be a life-changing and lifelong relationship with UFV in 1992. She knew nobody when she stepped onto campus, not even the coach. “I had been recruited by Mike Hind, but he took a…

A new initiative from UFV Campus Recreation is challenging students and employees to embrace more than just physical fitness. “We are encouraging everyone to embrace seven dimensions of wellness through our UFV Wellness Challenge,” says Cheryl Van Nes, program manager for Campus Recreation and Wellness. “These include physical, environmental, social, intellectual, occupational, emotional, and spiritual…