Queen's Women's Squash won their seventh straight title at the OUA Championship over the weekend at Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ont.
The Gaels only dropped one set all weekend, finishing with an overall record of 27-1 and swept the Waterloo Warriors 7-0 in the gold medal game.
Dileas MacGowan was named the Women's MVP at the OUA Championship while
Lisa Coates was named the Women's Coach of the Year.
MacGowan was also named an OUA All-Star alongside
Heather McLachlan.
MacGowan finished the weekend with an overall record of 12-1. After dropping the first set in the championship game against Waterloo, MacGowan defeated Waterloo's Khaaliqa Nimji 3-1 (5-11, 11-5, 11-6, 11-4) for the Gaels.
"Our strength as a team comes from within ourselves," said Coates, via Brock Badgers. "We have a lot of competition among our team and they're battling it out to earn a position on the roster. Everybody brings something to the table, their unique talents make up the team identity for our program."
Women's Standings (Overall record)
Queen's 4-0
Waterloo 4-1
Western 3-2
Guelph 2-2
Toronto 1-3
McMaster 1-4
Brock 0-3
Women's MVP
Dileas MacGowan
Women's Coach of the Year
Lisa Coates, Queen's
Women's All-Stars
Khaaliqa Nimji, Waterloo
Alessia Ferris, Western
Rhea Dhar, Toronto
Heather McLachlan, Queen's
Dileas MacGowan, Queen's
Reese MacLean, Guelph
Men's Squash
Men's Squash finished fifth at the OUA Men's Squash Championship in Niagara-on-the-Lake over the weekend. The Gaels were in a pool with Western and Guelph with the top two teams to advance to the medal round.
With their top three seeds recovering from the flu, Queen's suffered a heart-breaking 4-3 loss to Guelph on Friday before losing to Western 7-0.
The Gaels came away with two wins in the consolation round, defeating McMaster 7-0 and Brock 6-1 to finish fifth. Rookies Duncan Genge and Salah Elsherif, and veteran Michael Che has strong tournaments. Apart from their sole losses against Western, they all won their other three matches.
