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Hawks fall early at nationals
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VICTORIA, B.C — Defender Kelsey Abbott led the Wilfrid Laurier Golden Hawks off the field last Friday afternoon after their 1-0 defeat to the hands of the Sherbrooke Vert et Or. With tears falling down her face, as well as her teammates’, the reality hit the Hawks — this was their last game as the…
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Brackets unfair in CIS play
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In a tournament that holds so much importance to Canadian student athletes, you’d think the coordinators would put a little more thought into the setup. The Canadian Interuniversity Sport (CIS) women’s soccer national championship this past weekend took place in Victoria, B.C. It highlighted the eight best teams from across Canada from four separate conferences.…
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Season ends for women’s soccer
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VICTORIA, B.C. – And with one shot, the Wilfrid Laurier Golden Hawks saw their second national championship in a row get thrown away in two simple games. Two games that included Laurier losing 2-1 in their first game and 1-0 in the second — the same fate they felt one year ago. Friday afternoon, Laurier…
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Hawks bounced in CIS quarters
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VICTORIA, B.C – It was a fate the Wilfrid Laurier Golden Hawks didn’t dream of, but it was certainly more than they expected. In the Canadian Interuniversity Sport (CIS) national championship quarterfinal match, the Trinity Western Spartans defeated the Hawks 2-1 to advance to the semi-final. The loss sends Laurier to the consolation semifinal Friday…
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The rise and fall of Jeffries’ Hawks
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2002 A staff strike at Laurier forces head coach Rick Zmich to join the picket line, Jeffries takes over as interim head coach midway through the season. Star QB Ryan Pyear goes down with a knee injury. Laurier stumbles to a 1-7 record. 2003 Jan. 2003: Zmich steps down. Rick Zmich resigns after 12 seasons,…
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Kicker seeks improvement after impressive year
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Football wasn’t always important to Wilfrid Laurier kicker Ronnie Pfeffer. Being born and raised in a soccer-oriented family, Pfeffer’s focus never really centralized around the game until he turned 17. But when it did, the Kitchener native fell into something that has become a big part of his life. “When I was younger, [my parents]…
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Soccer Hawks national bound
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OTTAWA, Ont. – “Soccer’s kind of cruel that way.” Wilfrid Laurier women’s soccer head coach Barry MacLean summed up his team’s journey to the Canadian Interuniversity Sport (CIS) national championship this past weekend in six simple words. A cruel weekend in Ottawa that brought forth 240 minutes of playing time in two games, a six-round…
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Jeffries resigns as head coach
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Gary Jeffries can still remember it clearly. With 19 seconds left, a 32-yard field goal stood between the Wilfrid Laurier Golden Hawks men’s football team and the 2005 Vanier Cup. Fourth-year kicker Brian Devlin just needed to find the middle of the goal posts to put the Hawks ahead one point over the Saskatchewan Huskies.…
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Women’s soccer falls in gold medal match
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OTTAWA, Ont. — Most teams can never say they earned silver. But the way the Wilfrid Laurier women’s soccer team kept with the No. 1 Ottawa Gee-Gees Sunday afternoon, they can say they did. The Gee-Gees defeated the Hawks 1-0 in the gold medal match of the Ontario University Athletics (OUA) final four with a…
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Hawks get revenge in OUA semis
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OTTAWA, Ont. — Nothing tastes quite as sweet as revenge. Rewind to a year ago, the Wilfrid Laurier women’s soccer team saw their provincial gold medal fly away with the ball that sailed over the net during a 1-0 Ontario University Athletics (OUA) final loss to the Queen’s Gaels in penalty kicks. Saturday afternoon, the…
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