PACWEST Basketball Championship

The Okanagan College Coyotes are excited to host the women’s and men’s PACWEST basketball provincial championship tournament beginning this Thursday at Kelowna Christian School.

The three-day championship tournament will feature four games a day concluding with the medal games on Saturday.  The women’s bracket will begin each day at 12:30pm and conclude each night with the men’s bracket at 8:00pm.

The Coyotes will welcome the six-team bracket to Kelowna for the first time in school history.  Teams will battle for the Conference gold medal and a berth into the Canadian Collegiate Athletic Association’s (CCAA) National Championship taking place in two weeks.

“This is a wonderful opportunity for our College,” says Jenn Naiman, Athletics, Recreation, Student Life Coordinator at Okanagan College.  “We are still relatively new to the Conference, but we have seen some success in recent years with our women’s program winning gold in 2022.  We are excited to be making school history and welcoming the teams for the PACWEST championship.”

The PACWEST Conference will receive two berths into the CCAA national championship which makes this year’s provincial tournament much more exciting.  On both the women’s and men’s side of the bracket the two teams that qualify for the gold medal game on Saturday will win the right to go to nationals.  The women head to Lakeland College in Alberta, while the men will travel across the country to New Brunswick and Mount Allison University.

Tickets for the PACWEST championship tournament can be purchased at the door of Kelowna Christian School beginning at 11:30am each day.