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With all of Canada behind her, Maëlle Ricker jostled and carved her way down the mountain to a gold medal in Vancouver’s 2010 Winter Olympics in snowboard cross.

But what Canada didn’t know was that Maëlle had another support system, a top secret one.

“The project started in January 2006,” said National Research Council of Canada (NRC) scientist Dr. Guy Larose.

“We proposed the project to Own the Podium,” he said. “We were helping the athletes to reach their maximum potential.”

A rivalry as big as the game itself, and a victory just as rewarding, the Carleton men’s varsity basketball team defeated the University of Ottawa Gee-Gees 78-64 Mar. 6 in the Ravens’ Nest.

The win secured Carleton the Ontario University Athletics’ (OUA) East championship title.

The game started off slow for the Ravens as the Gee-Gees came out strong, capturing the first points of the game and maintaining a dominant lead throughout the beginning of the first quarter.

 When one thinks of archery they often think of Robin Hood.

That’s what Amanda Devitt thought too, when she first fell in love with the sport at summer camp as a child.

Now, years later, Devitt is a senior member of the archery club at Carleton.

The simple fact that Carleton has an archery program was a deciding factor for Devitt four years ago when she was choosing a university.

The archery team, which has been around for six years, practices every Tuesday in the combatives room and welcomes new members.

The Canada-U.S. Olympic gold medal showdown in men’s ice hockey had all the ingredients for a game people will be talking about for ages: nail-biting intensity, a come-from-behind push that saw the States force overtime with only seconds remaining, and a photo finish care of Canadian poster boy Sidney Crosby.

The gold-medal game was a perfect representation of Olympic hockey: fast-paced, hard-hitting and skilled, but without the dirty hits and roughhousing that are commonplace in the NHL.

The McGill University Redmen defeated the Carleton men’s hockey team 5-1 on Friday Feb. 26, forcing a third and deciding game in the Ontario University Athletics East semi-finals series Feb. 28 in which McGill ended Carleton’s season defeating the Ravens 6-2.

The Friday night game at the Carleton Ice House began in favour of the Ravens with an early goal from Mike Byrd during a power play three minutes into the first period. Unfortunately Redmen forward Andrew Wright evened out the score shortly afterward, despite Carleton’s aggressive defence.