A quarrel against a transgender competitor who resulted in Sources and sanctions It was not prevented by Columbia Bible College (CBC) to move to the end this year.
CBC won Canadian Collegal Athletic Association Women’s Basketball National Championship on Saturday night, beating St. Mary 77-70 to win the title in the history history for the first time.
For CBC, Elissa Vrugdenhil scored the CCAA MVP Championship, setting 19 points with 12 rebounds in victory. Grace Park scored 20 points with six rebounds and four assists to ask for a player of honor the game, while Madeline Beerwald scored 20 points with eight rebounds.
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Victory is not only the first national championship in the history of CBC, but also marked a dramatic turnaround of only two years, as the program suffered a losing series of 54 games from 2018 to 2023. The program did not even win a conference play-off game before this season.
However, the team also achieved all this under the shadow of charges relating to the treatment of trans -a -models. The main coach Taylor Claggett Suspendovan, and the team lost the right to the host of the conference tournament after charges of abuse against Trans athletes at Vancouver Island University (VIU) in October.
Feud started during the match on October 25th between the two teams, which won 69-56 after the Harriette Mackenzie Trans player scored 19 points. Five days after that match, Trans athlete posted an Instagram video claiming that Claggett “inserted one of our athletic staff and went to a tirade about how I should not be allowed to play.”
Also reportedly Mackenzie deliberately violated the CBC player to Earth. In response, Claggett posted his own Instagram statement, claiming that Mackenzie’s statements were incorrect.
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“My intention has nothing to do with specific athletes, but instead, the safety of athletes in their sport,” Claggett wrote.
Viu then filed a formal complaint about Pacwest, encouraging an investigation. When two teams were to play again on January 10 and January 11, he refused.
“Int heritage, harassment and discrimination have no place in athletics,” he said in a statement to Fox News Digital in January regarding the decision not to play. “Viu fully supports our students and confirms the right of all athletes to compete in the environment, which prioritize their safety and well-being.”
Viu asked for the two of them not counting as losses in the team records, which was approved by Pacwest.
The CBC made a statement to Fox News Digital that weekend stating “accusations that CBC, his coaches, players and fans are a security threat simply untrue and mis -informed.”
Days later, CBC players condemned Mackenzie in a letter received by Fox News Digital.
CBC players blamed Mackenzie for “personal attacks”, “defamation comments” and even “comments that encourage violence” against their coach.
“Videos and letters published by members of the Women’s Basketball Team ViU for the last three months have been directly violated by several rules listed in Article 17.2 Manuals. Different posts include” personal attacks “,” defamation comments “,” lack of respect for Pacwest “and led to” comments that stimulated “.
“Any and all the allegations made by players Viu -A in connection with our team and coach should have been directly communicated to Pacwest officials, they did not need to be transmitted publicly to social media.”
Pacwest ultimately stopped with Vi and Mackenzie. Claggett suspended in early February, and CBC lost the right to host Pacwest championship.
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CBC managed to fight all the way back to reach the Pacwest title game, which happened against VII and Mackenzie, March 1. Mackenzie scored 21 points in that game to lead Vi to 69-59 win, and then after the game he was awarded to the MVP Conference Tournament.
But Nade Viu’s national championships were quickly pierced, after losing to Mohawk College in the first round on Wednesday. Mackenzie’s Instagram account, a platform that initially shared allegations against Claggett and CBC, has been deleted on the same day.
In the meantime, CBC has now run until the historic championship, despite the frequent borders of this season.
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