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Basketball rookie Tayania Siwek-Smith is having a standout first season
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Tayania Siwek-Smith is off to a great start to her Laurier basketball career in only her rookie season. After just nine games, she has put up some great numbers that see her in the top five of five stat categories at Laurier. For Siwek-Smith, her story began in grade eight, when a friend of hers…
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Schenck is shining under the spotlight
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The Laurier women’s basketball team has gotten off to a hot start in their 2016-17 campaign thanks in large part to fifth-year guard, Kaitlyn Schenck, who leads the team in scoring. Schenck got into the game because of her father and began playing at the age of six in the Kitchener-Waterloo Youth Basketball League. “My…
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Women’s hockey off to a slow start at WLU
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The Laurier women’s hockey team has gotten off to a rough start in their 2016-17 season, winning just one of their first seven games. Coach Rick Osborne addressed his team’s poor play. “We just haven’t played well enough yet,” he said. “We haven’t been able to play back-to-back games well. We seem to lose our…
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Loss against the Mustangs marks the end of a hard fought season for WLU men’s soccer
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On a cold and windy fall night, the Laurier men’s soccer team played their first playoff match at home against the Western Mustangs. Heading into the game, everything was looking up for the Golden Hawks, having won three of their last four matches heading into the OUA playoffs and finishing the regular season as the…
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Nakas Onyeka ranks top 16 by Central Scouting Bureau
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Coming in at number 16 in the Central Scouting Bureau’s September rankings for the 2017 CFL draft, Laurier’s number 11, Nakas Onyeka, of Brampton, Ontario, has played an important role in Laurier’s 4-0 start to the OUA football season. For Onyeka, this path all started back at St. Marguerite d’Youville Secondary School. Playing mostly baseball…
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Men’s soccer falls short against Windsor
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On a very wet University Stadium pitch, the Laurier men’s soccer team faced off against University of Windsor. Both teams seemed to be feeling it out for the first 25 minutes of the game, before we saw our first real action when Windsor forward, Iyowuna Jumbo, sped down the left side of the Laurier defense…
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Golden Hawks vs Windsor ends in draw
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On a very rainy Saturday afternoon, the Laurier women’s soccer team played host to the Windsor Lancers at University Stadium. After controlling much of the early stages of the game, Windsor’s Abby Hunt finally broke down the Laurier defence 26 minutes into the game to score an angled shot that went off the left post…
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An optimistic start for men’s rugby
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After opening the season with a perfect two wins from two games—38-24 over University of Toronto and 29-11 over University of Waterloo—men’s rugby head coach, Ian McLeod has achievable expectations and hopes for the 2016 OUA season. “As a program we’d like to see at least a .500 season. Better than that would be good,…
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Misogyny in Batman: The Killing Joke
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Note: This article contains content that that discusses sexual and gendered violence. Alan Moore and Brian Bolland’s 1988 graphic novel, The Killing Joke, has recently been adapted into film. Produced by Bruce Timm, written by Brain Azzarello and directed by Sam Liu. Both the graphic novel and the film are widely seen as controversial for…
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High hopes for WLU swim team
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Finishing in ninth place in both men’s and women’s OUA championship competition last year, Wilfrid Laurier University swim coach, Hans Witolla, is very hopeful that the team can double its output from last season’s competition. “I want to double the number of swimmers we have going to CIS. We had two last year, so my…
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