Women’s Rugby
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Laurier Women’s Rugby Team Win 58-0 Against Trent
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Hawks show visiting Trent that the best Defense is a Great Offence The Laurier Golden Hawks Women’s Rugby Team secured a dominant 58-0 victory over the Trent University Excalibur on Saturday, Sept. 20, snapping a two-game losing streak and evening their season record at 2-2. The win wasn’t just decisive — it was historic, marking…
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Stop the sprawl
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Young Ontarians are consistently voting less and experiencing more doubt in politics. Many exhibit a more nihilistic approach regarding the magnitude of their impact, assuming they’re just one person, and how much of a difference could one person make? This, in retrospect, reiterates a self-fulfilling prophecy in which nothing will ultimately be accomplished. I caught…
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Golden Hawks Women’s Rugby team falls 78-7 to York
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After a disappointing first three weeks of the season, that saw the women’s rugby team winless, the Golden Hawks were hoping to turn around their efforts against York University in their final regular season game last week. Unfortunately, York, who entered the match undefeated on the year, were too much for Laurier to handle,…
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Hayley Desjardins wins OUA Player of the Year award
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The Wilfrid Laurier women’s rugby team’s season came to a crashing end at the hands of Western in the OUA playoffs. But the end of the season was bittersweet for fifth year veteran Hayley Desjardins, who was recently named the OUA player of the year. Needless to say, Desjardins had an outstanding season, and she…
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Big things on the horizon for Laurier Rugby
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For both the men’s and women’s rugby teams, 2018 is shaping up to hopefully be a season for the record books. Coming off of the best season in the modern history of the Laurier men’s rugby program, the team opened their 2018 campaign last week with a convincing 50-0 victory over Trent. The Golden Hawks,…
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Arts organizations students can get involved in
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Coming into Laurier as a Toronto-bred, big city kid, I thought the only cultural attractions in Kitchener-Waterloo were the swarths of geese that congregated around campus. Now I work for a non-profit theatre company in Kitchener and every day I eat my words. There are so many fantastic arts organizations hidden in Laurier’s backyard, and…
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