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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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Investigating the Ontario scheduling issues
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With the addition of the Carleton Ravens, the Ontario University Athletics football conference grew to a nation-high 11 teams. While the growth of the Ontario conference has been a positive light for football in the province, it also presented issues this year with scheduling. “Because there are 11 teams now, every team avoids playing two…
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Team effort key to Laurier basketball success; 5-1 to start off the season
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The Wilfrid Laurier Golden Hawks women’s basketball team looked to continue their strong start to the season as they hosted the York Lions on Saturday afternoon. Their 66-62 win on Friday night over the Queen’s Gaels placed the Hawks into the top three in the competitive Ontario University Athletics (OUA) West division. Against Queen’s, the…
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Men’s hockey sweeps weekend
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The Wilfrid Laurier men’s hockey team handed the Laurentian Voyageurs a 6-0 loss to round out their weekend home stand on Saturday night. After demonstrating control over their last matchup versus the Nipissing Lakers, the Hawks are finally starting to find some success going further into the season, in which they lost five straight games,…
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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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Laurier’s women’s soccern shut down in CIS nationals
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TORONTO, Ont. – It wasn’t expected, but their fate seemed all too familiar. Despite offensive uncertainty and plenty of injuries, the Wilfrid Laurier women’s soccer team advanced to the Canadian Interuniversity Sport (CIS) national championships, but lost the quarterfinal to the eventual tournament winners, the Trinity Western Spartans, before eventually dropping out of the tournament…
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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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