VIU Mariners

Check out this great PACWEST BC (Pacific Western Athletic Association) conversation with VIU Women's Basketball guard Mackenzie Cox: reflecting on her fifth year, the national championship, and what comes next!

Leading Mariner Guard Mackenzie Cox wins a national gold medal for the second time to cap off her career

To the CCAA Men’s Basketball National Championship ‘green team’: thank you!

Sport tournaments of any size don’t spring together organically; it takes effort, dedication, and belief. The people you saw at the tournament in green shirts were a mix of VIU staff, student workers, the table crew, volunteers, camera operators, photographers, ticket takers, even family members—many more than you see in this photo, folks who all put in long hours, steadfastly believing that hosting a CCAA national championship would be a valuable and memorable experience for our students, the Vancouver Island basketball community, and VIU at large.

This effort goes back years: to preparing and submitting a host bid, finding like-minded and supportive sponsors and partners, arranging travel and accommodations, getting the gym into shape, training on stat keeping, designing logos and graphics, selling tickets, with the goal of giving student-athletes an environment to play their best basketball of the year on the biggest stage many of them will ever play on. And it all came together in a tournament where eight of the 13 games were won by five points or less and another went to double-overtime.

Run with your passion, find the best teammates, and great things can happen!