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Laurier swims to the podium
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Wilfrid Laurier’s swim team surpassed expectations in the pool this weekend with five first-place finishes and a new school record. After months of practice, the Laurier swimmers found much success in their home ground, including five first-place finishes as well as many podium finishes. First-year Dean Bennett had a great performance, capturing first place in…
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Win prepares Hawks
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The Ontario University Athletics (OUA) championship is one of the only things on Carly Howard’s mind. The third-year skip for the Wilfrid Laurier women’s curling team led the Hawks to a 5-0 performance at the Brock Invitational bonspiel last weekend, claiming first place. And with a solid, strong performance from her and her team, she…
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Sports in brief: November 27
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Women’s basketball ranked No. 10 in Canada Despite missing two of their major starters, the Hawks have gotten off to their best start since 2003-04. Over the weekend, Laurier defeated the Carleton Ravens before upsetting the No. 7 — now No. 8 — nationally ranked Ottawa Gee-Gees on Saturday. Laurier has a 7-1 record after…
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Laurier’s national swimmers
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Two Golden Hawks certainly made a splash in the pool at the Tihanyi Divisionals last weekend in Hamilton, Ont. The purple and gold swimming team swam their way to a fourth-place finish in both men’s and women’s at the meet, where they held their own against the likes of the powerhouse swim clubs McMaster and…
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The top moments of 2013
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10. Laura Brooker scores 50 goals in her three-year career (Feb. 2, 2013) It took her a while to get there, but once Laura Brooker hit the 50-goal milestone, it put her into history as one of four Laurier women’s hockey players to ever hit the plateau. In less than three years, Brooker became an…
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Mapping out the AC expansion
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Peter Baxter, director of athletics and recreation at Wilfrid Laurier University said, “if you build it, people will come.” On Nov. 13, people came to the newly renovated fitness centre which saw $5 million worth of renovations put into it since Aug. 1, 2012. The money came from the student life levy (SLL) after a…
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Curling rocks the house in Kitchener
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Laurier alumni return to stomping grounds at Road to the Roar There’s never really anything better than a homecoming. And last week, Wilfrid Laurier curling alumni Laura Crocker, Jen Gates and John Morris had the best of homecomings, returning to Kitchener-Waterloo for the Capital One Road to the Roar curling Olympic pre-trials0 in Kitchener. “It…
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Sonnenberg advances to Olympic trials in Winnipeg
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KITCHENER, ONT — It seemed like everything was in the cards for third seed Renèe Sonnenberg of Grand Prairie, Alta, Saturday evening as she faced off in a rematch against eighth seed Kelly Scott of West Kelowna, B.C in the Capital One Road to the Roar in Kitchener. In a matchup that had only transpired…
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Crocker’s trip to Olympic trials comes to an end
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KITCHENER, Ont. – Second-seed Laura Crocker successfully defeated twelfth seed Krista McCarville to keep her dream of an Olympic berth alive. Team Crocker managed to come off a loss to eighth-seed Cathy Auld to fend off elimination for the first time in the tournament. After being in the lead 6-4 coming into the ninth end,…
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Morris moves on to Olympic trials
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KITCHENER, Ont. — Looks like history is well on its way to repeating itself. Fourth-seed John Morris from Alberta defeated second-seed Brad Gushue, from St. John’s Nfld., in a thrilling semifinal draw that sent Morris to the championship draw at the Road to the Roar Olympic pre-trials with two lives left going for a shot…
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