From Maui to the Yellow Sea, Nikola Girke competes on worldwide winds - photo by Martin Dee UBC Reports | Vol. 54 | No. 7 | Jul. 3, 2008
Riding the Waves to Success
If there’s a good wind up, West Vancouverite Nikola Girke can usually be found on the water.
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 Rolling for Gold
UBC alumnus Jaimie Borisoff will go for his third consecutive Paralympic gold.
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 Sports Doc Has a Dream Come True
A ski jumper lands wrong and breaks her spine. Food poisoning takes out a bobsled team. A skate blade clips a speed skater and blood gushes onto the ice.
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 Hungry for Another Gold
Peanut butter and jelly sandwich, a banana and half a granola bar. These simple comfort foods make up Jennifer Krempien’s favorite pre-game meal.
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 Olympic Vet Reflects on UBC Education
Brian Johns won 33 gold medals competing as a Thunderbird, claiming only one silver at the CIS level in his five years in the pool.
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 Pierse Dynasty Fuels UBC Dominance
When the swimming portion of the Olympic Games is held this August in Beijing’s highly touted Water Cube, one Canadian to keep your eye on is going to be UBC Thunderbird Annamay Pierse.
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 World Champ Seeking Olympic Glory
Athens in 2004 was supposed to be former UBC Thunderbird Brent Hayden’s coming out party.
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 Tap and Rope Guide Swimmer to Victory
At age 24, new UBC grad Donovan Tildesley has broken two world records, won a dozen gold medals in international swim meets and is part of Team Canada for the third time in the Paralympic Games in Beijing this summer.
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 Broad Strokes Power Olympic Success
Jake Wetzel’s conceptual goal for the Beijing Olympics is to take one eight hundredths of a second out of his life.
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 UBC Rowers Living a Legacy
Seventy six years ago, a young oarsman named Ned Pratt became the first UBC student to win an Olympic medal.
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 T-Birds Soar on Field Hockey Team
Before Canada created a national sports program, university teams donned the maple leaf for the Olympics.
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 Thelma Wright on the Munich Olympics
Thelma Wright saw first hand how terrorism hijacked the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich.
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 Achieving Excellence One Lap at a Time
Under the guidance of head coach Tom Johnson, the 2008 Canadian Swim Team’s chances for Olympic success look good.
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 Frick’s Wheel-life Journey Began at UBC
One of the most successful coaches in Canadian paralympic history, Tim Frick says his career path can be traced directly back to his undergraduate days in what was then UBC’s School of Physical Education.
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The 2008 UBC Team
A complete list of Beijing-bound UBC Olympians, Paralympians, coaches and support staff.
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 Academic Rigour Makes for Earned Runs
Rigorous academic demands at UBC have helped Olympic hopeful Brooks McNiven make a career out of playing baseball.
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 Fast Boat to China
When Mike Leigh was a student at UBC, the competitive sailor used some of the knowledge from his kinesiology courses to shape his training program.
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THIS SUMMER, nearly 40 members of the UBC community will participate in the 2008 Beijing Olympic and Paralympic Games as athletes, coaches sports doctors and staff.