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They also play a two-game, combined score series against the University of California for the "World Cup" trophy (a competition started in 1921). The varsity XV now competes against the University of Victoria in a two-game, combined score series to claim the coveted "Boot". Men's rugby is one of the oldest varsity sports at UBC (including the precursor to UBC, McGill University College of BC, varsity rugby started in 1906). The Thunderbirds won all seven games played by a combined scored of 56 to 5. The trip was supported by the Government of Canada as part of a desire to normalize relations with China, and was not well-publicized at the time. In December 1973, they became one of the first Western Bloc sports teams to tour China, and played a series of games focused on friendship and teaching hockey skills to local players. He accumulated a winning record in 11 of 12 seasons, and set UBC record with 214 wins by a coach in ice hockey. īob Hindmarch began coaching the men's ice hockey team during the 1964–65 season, and led them to the 1971 Western Canadian Intercollegiate Athletic Association championship. T-bird baseball successes include their trip to the 2006 NAIA World Series.įather David Bauer coached the Thunderbirds for two seasons, and led the team to a Western Canadian Intercollegiate Athletic Association championship in 1963, and reached the final game of the Canadian Interuniversity Athletic Union men's ice hockey championship tournament for the CIAU University Cup, but lost by a 3–2 score to the McMaster Marauders. Since then nine more Thunderbirds have been drafted including 2007 World Series starter Jeff Francis.
In 2001, the program reached a new level as the New York Mets made Derran Watts the first ever Thunderbird to be drafted, when they selected him in the 12th round. The Thunderbirds compete in the United States as the only Canadian member of the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA). In 2015, Chris Pritchett was named the new head coach of the baseball team and Terry moved up to the position of Director of Baseball.
Since 1997, McKaig has been the driving force behind the T-Birds with support and funding from such major leaguers as Jeff Zimmerman and Ryan Dempster. Hiscott recognized student Terry McKaig, a former collegiate player and national team member, as the one to take over the program as head coach.
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In the summer of 1996, 30 years after the original UBC baseball program was disbanded due to budget cuts, Athletic Director Bob Phillip along with former professional Jim Murphy and community baseball coach Mark Hiscott provided funding for the present day Thunderbirds baseball.
The Thunderbirds program has also yielded three Hec Crighton Trophy winners: Jordan Gagner in 1987 Mark Nohra in 1997 and, most recently, Billy Greene in 2011. The team has also lost twice in the title game, in 19. On a national level, the team has won the Vanier Cup championship four times, in 1982, 1986, 1997 and, most recently, in 2015. The UBC Thunderbirds football team has won the CWUAA Hardy Trophy conference championship 16 times, which is third all-time among competing teams.
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