Vancouver Island University Women’s basketball team lost in the first round of the Canadian Collegial Athletic Association National Tournament Wednesday to Mohawk College.

The loss marked the end of a controversial championship driving for the program after a seasonal feud with rival Columbia Bible College over Vius transking player, Harriette Mackenzie. VIU will continue to play in the tournament despite the loss competing in a loser fittings.

Mackenzie played a prominent role in trying to keep the VIU’s championship hope alive on Wednesday, led the team with 20 points and 17 rebounds. No other player on VIU’s program list registered more than eight points or five rebounds.

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Mackenzie’s Instagram account also seemed to be disabled after the loss. It had been active as late as Wednesday morning.

Mackenzie and VIU refused to comment on in response to a request from Pakinomist Digital.

Mackenzie was recently named an all-Canadian for the second time and led VIU to a Pacwest tournament victory over CBC and won the tournament MVP Heads. Mackenzie was the player of the year in 2023.

Mackenzie can return to another college season because CCAA delivers athletes five years of eligibility.

VIU’s feud with CBC started during a 25th of October games between the two teams that ViU won 69-56 after Mackenzie scored a game-high 19 points. Five days after this game, the athlete published an Instagram video that claimed that CBC head coach Taylor Claggett “cornered one of our athletic staff and went on a tirade about how I shouldn’t be allowed to play.”

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It was also claimed that Mackenzie was deliberately buried to the ground by a CBC player. In response, Claggett published his own statement on Instagram and claimed that Mackenzie’s statements were inaccurate.

“My intention has nothing to do with a particular athlete, but instead the security of female athletes in their sport,” wrote claggett.

VIU then filed a formal complaint with Pacwest, which got an investigation against VIU. When the two teams were scheduled to play each other again in two games 10-11. January, VIU refused to play because of the alleged incident from their first meetings.

“Intimidation, harassment and discrimination have no place in athletics,” VIU said in a statement to Pakinomist Digital in January about the decision not to play. “VIU is in full support from our student athletes and confirms the right of all athletes to compete in an environment that prioritizes their safety and well-being.”

VIU requested that the two lost do not count as losses on the team’s record, which was awarded by Pacwest.

CBC delivered a statement to Pakinomist Digital that weekend about “accusations that CBC, its coach, players and fans are a security threat is simply untrue and wrongly informed.”

CBC players then condemned Mackenzie in a letter sent to Pakinomist Digital.

CBC players accused Mackenzie of “personal attacks”, “defamatory comments” and even “comments that encourage violence” against their coach.

“Videos and letters submitted by members of the ViU -Kvinde’s basketball team in the past three months have directly violated several rules listed in Article 17.2 of the manual. Various positions have included ‘personal attack’, ‘defamatory comments,’ ‘lack of respect against Pacwest’ and led to ‘Comments that encourage violence and/or hatred’ directed to our Coach, ‘ the letter.

“Any and all accusations of VIU players about our team and coach should have been directly communicated to Pacwest officials alone, they should not have been publicly uploaded to social media.”

Pacwest suspended Claggett in early February, and CBC lost its right to host the Pacwest championships after a conference investigation.

As of June 2017, all places in Canada were ordered to comply Canadian Human Rights ActEqual opportunities and/or legislation on discrimination of discrimination that prohibits the discrimination of gender identity or gender identity expressions. This law protects the inclusion of all trans athletes in women’s and girls sports.