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Laurier Hall of Famer Laura Brooker on Coach Osborne and her years with the Hawks
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There may be nothing more special in sports than the relationship that a coach and player develop together. Ask any athlete about their progress and success and they will list off a variety of names that were instrumental in helping them get to where they are today. While that list will surely include family, friends…
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Laurier women’s hockey team still looking for its first win
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Laurier’s women’s hockey team is still in search of their first win of the season after two home losses this weekend. A 5-3 loss against Nipissing on Friday night as well as a 2-0 loss to Laurentian on Saturday afternoon has Coach Paton’s team sitting at the bottom of the OUA with a 0-0-1-3 record.…
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Women’s athletics at Laurier has grown in leaps and bounds
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In the 1990’s, Wilfrid Laurier University’s athletic facility only had four washroom stalls for the women’s athletic teams and the women’s change room was only a third of the size of the men’s change room. Now, as of 2019, Laurier women’s varsity teams have won 36 out of the 73 OUA championships and seven of…
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Kelly Paton hopes to lead Hawks back to the playoffs in 2020
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New coach, new regime, a team in progress. This is always a storyline that people follow in sports, especially when that new coach is from a winning background like coach Kelly Paton of the Laurier Golden Hawks’ women’s hockey team. Having come from leading the Western Mustangs the last two seasons, putting together a 39-19…
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Inconsistency plagues Golden Hawks hockey teams as they get off to a slow start
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It has been an up and down season so far for both the men’s and women’s Laurier hockey teams. The men’s team lost a few veterans at the end of last year and it seems like their leadership was certainly being missed by the Hawks, at least at the start of the season. The Hawks…
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Laurier women’s hockey team announces Kelly Paton as new head coach
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A new era has dawned upon us for Wilfrid Laurier University’s women’s hockey. Kelly Paton will be the Golden Hawks’ new head coach and manager of women’s hockey operations taking over as the successor to Rick Osborne, who held the position for 15 years. Despite the struggles of the last two years, having finished last…
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Kelly Paton hired as new head coach and manager of Laurier women’s hockey
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The Wilfrid Laurier University women’s hockey team has a new head coach. On May 11, 2018, the Laurier Department of Athletics announced the hiring of Kelly Paton as the new head coach and manager of women’s hockey operations. Paton coached the Western Mustangs for the past two seasons and led the Hawks’ rivals to a…
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Hawks give Rick Osborne a victory in his final home game
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Goodbyes aren’t always easy and if you make an impact on someone’s life, they shouldn’t be. That’s the case when it comes to women’s hockey coach Rick Osborne, who has been with the team since 2003, as he coached his last home game for the Golden Hawks on Saturday. Osborne has won nine OUA championships…
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Rick Osborne retires after 15 years of coaching
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The Wilfrid Laurier women’s hockey head coach, Rick Osborne, has announced his retirement after an extraordinary 15-year career. Osborne will continue the 2017-18 season behind the Hawks’ bench and will retire at the end of the year. For Osborne, retirement is something that he had been contemplating since the conclusion of last year. “What I…
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Losing streak comes to an end for women’s hockey
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The Laurier women’s hockey team started off their 2017 schedule by ending an eight game losing streak Saturday night with a 3-1 victory over the visiting Brock Badgers. The win was also the team’s first of the season in regulation. At the beginning of the game, a possible Laurier victory did not seem likely. Through…
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