Cougars Connection
Apr 14th, 2010 |
Category: Cougars Connection, Sports
By Josh Naud
If you’ve ever taken a trip around the track, or been to the gym for any reason, you’ve seen his name in giant letters across the wall: Kenyon Court.
The legendary coach, Jack Kenyon, made his mark long before most of us were even considering coming to Mount Royal. When Kenyon retired in 1994 [...]
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Apr 1st, 2010 |
Category: Cougars Connection, Sports
The Cougars women’s hockey team won their first ACAC Championship in four years, after defeating the NAIT Ooks three games to one. The championship is the fourth overall for the team who won their first title in 2003 followed by back-to-back wins in 2004 and 2005 as well. The Cougars finished the regular season in first-place with a record of [...]
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Mar 17th, 2010 |
Category: Cougars Connection, Sports
by Kelsey Hipkin
As I sit writing this, only one Cougar team out of a possible six has the chance to medal for the remainder of the season. This comes of course with the exception of the Cougars’ soccer
teams that wrapped up last semester. Our men’s team took gold over the SAIT Trojans and the women just [...]
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Mar 3rd, 2010 |
Category: Cougars Connection, Sports
by Kelsey Hipkin
Men’s Volleyball
Sitting in second place in the ACAC standings going in to the playoffs, the Cougars men’s volleyball
team looked poised to bring home some hardware. However, this wasn’t the case as the team had a “tough weekend”
according to events and communications coordinator Kyle Henry. With head coach Shawn Sky (recently named ACAC coach [...]
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Feb 11th, 2010 |
Category: Cougars Connection, Sports
by Kelsey Hipkin
“Ground, set, HUT!” Since Mount Royal reached its university status, people might be thinking they’ll be hearing those words from a Mount Royal Cougar Football field near you.
If you were one of those people, think again.
Cougar Athletics events and communications coordinator Kyle Henry said that having a football team on campus isn’t in any [...]
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Jan 27th, 2010 |
Category: Cougars Connection, Sports
It’s a Wednesday afternoon and the temperature inside the rink is cooler than it is outside. The Mount Royal University men’s hockey team is hard at work practicing the skills they will need to fight for the ACAC championship coming up in two months time.
Steam rises out of the glove of hard working [...]
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Jan 13th, 2010 |
Category: Cougars Connection, Sports
Welcome back sports fans! Whether you are a new student to MRU or a seasoned veteran of our university’s hallowed halls The Reflector would like to
present you with a guide to where your Cougar teams are sitting heading into the second and in some cases, latter part of the season.
Men’s Basketball
Overall Record – 14-6
Next game [...]
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Dec 2nd, 2009 |
Category: Cougars Connection, Sports
The Cougars men’s hockey team is off to a roaring start this season with a 13-1-0-1 record so far.
After facing SAIT on Dec. 4, the big cats don’t play again until Jan. 8. Head coach Jean LaForest said that the team will practice until Dec. 17 and then will have two weeks off before donning [...]
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Nov 19th, 2009 |
Category: Cougars Connection, Sports
Painted faces, homemade signs, t-shirts and hoodies emblazoned with MRU or a roaring Cougar and maybe even a continuous round of the wave? Add it all up and you have the recipe for MRU school spirit.
With an athletic program as successful as the Cougars — winning 123 ACAC championships since 1965 and 18 CCAA championships [...]
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Nov 4th, 2009 |
Category: Cougars Connection, Sports, Web Exclusives
Gretzky and Messier. Kobe and Shaq. Ruth and Gehrig.
There’s no question that a talented duo can provide a one-two punch capable of leading a team to the promise land and the Mount Royal Cougars women’s volleyball team is hoping their left-side tandem of Andrea Price and Breanna Estabrook can do just that.
“They’re such good role [...]
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