{"id":5685,"date":"2013-01-23T09:11:08","date_gmt":"2013-01-23T17:11:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/?p=5685"},"modified":"2013-02-04T11:49:38","modified_gmt":"2013-02-04T19:49:38","slug":"chargers-look-forward-to-bc-playoff-berths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/2013\/01\/23\/chargers-look-forward-to-bc-playoff-berths\/","title":{"rendered":"Chargers look forward to BC playoff berths"},"content":{"rendered":"

Things are looking up for the four main sports teams at Camosun College. The Camosun Chargers men\u2019s and women\u2019s volleyball and basketball teams all have a chance to make the playoffs, with two of the four teams currently holding winning records.<\/p>\n

The Chargers women\u2019s volleyball team has put together some recent wins and is currently sitting in fourth place. The team is hoping this will be the start to a turnaround leading to the playoffs.<\/p>\n

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Camosun Chargers men\u2019s basketball head coach Scot Cuachon (photo provided).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Head coach Chris Dahl says it took a reminder of the excitement and enjoyment of the game to get the team back to where it needed to be in order to finish off the season strong.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s been a long haul and it\u2019s easy to lose touch with that energy and that excitement,\u201d says Dahl. \u201cWe\u2019re confident that when we keep that, with the skill level and the talent that we\u2019ve collected within the program, we\u2019ll perform well on the floor.\u201d<\/p>\n

Dahl says the team will have to keep up its re-found motivation if it hopes to be prepared for the upcoming provincial playoffs in Cranbrook.<\/p>\n

\u201cEvery opponent we play is going to be a battle, so we need to prepare for those but also embrace the challenges that come with that,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n

Second-year volleyball player Morgan Marshall, originally from Smithers, took home a PACWEST athlete of the week award for her strong play in recent games.<\/p>\n

The Camosun men\u2019s volleyball team was also able to fight the battle and maintain fourth place provincially after some ups and downs this season. The team currently has a record of nine wins and seven losses.<\/p>\n

Over in basketball, the women\u2019s team is also picking up speed after a rough start. Its record currently sits at five wins and seven losses.Second-year Charger Ella Goldsmid was recently awarded PACWEST athlete of the week honours for Camosun\u2019s basketball squad.<\/p>\n

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Camosun Chargers women\u2019s volleyball head coach Chris Dahl (photo provided).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Meanwhile, the men\u2019s basketball team will need to up the level of motivation if it hopes to pull out of last place (currently three wins and eight losses) in time to make it to playoffs.<\/p>\n

The team faced no shortage of unexpected challenges in 2012, such as losing three players to injury, but new head coach Scot Cuachon believe they can overcome this season\u2019s obstacles if they can come together and work harder as a team.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe just need to focus on the next step for us, which is to get into the playoffs,\u201d says Cuachon, \u201cand I think that we still have a really good chance of going. We just have to keep moving forward and building.\u201d<\/p>\n

Cuachon maintains an optimistic outlook for the rest of the season, and achieving the goal that was set at the beginning of the season for a minimum provincial bronze title is still realistic.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnything can happen once you get to playoffs,\u201d says Cuachon. \u201cI think that we\u2019ll improve and come together and we\u2019ll learn to work harder together, and after that we should be able to reach our goals.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Things are looking up for the four main sports teams at Camosun College. The Camosun Chargers men\u2019s and women\u2019s volleyball and basketball teams all have a chance to make the playoffs, with two of the four teams currently holding winning records. The Chargers women\u2019s volleyball team has put together some recent wins and is currently […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5920,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,15,92],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","category-campus","category-january-23-1013"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5685"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5685\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5987,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5685\/revisions\/5987"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}