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 [...]

by Kylie Robertson
Cries of “Aussie, Aussie, Aussie!” will be met with silence this year in Mount Royal residence.
A partnership between Mount Royal Residence Services and Canada Olympic Park to house their international ski staff – the majority of whom were from Australia – has been halted after three successful academic years on campus. During the [...]

It was lucky number 13 in cham­pionship wins for the Cougars men’s soccer team as they won the ACACs on their

home-turf in a come-from-behind gold medal nail-biter.

With the 2-1 win over the SAIT Trojans the team earned them­selves a ticket to Seneca College in Toronto for the national finals.
“[They] faced some adver­sity there, especially [...]

After a dominating showing at the Ranger Elite Cougar Classic Oct. 15-17, including a 105-26 trouncing of St. Mary’s University College, the Cougars women’s basketball team is looking to start the regular season off with a bang.
With a very impressive 26-point outing on Oct. 12, new recruit Rochelle Thoutenhoofd made her mark on the ACAC [...]

After winning ACAC gold, the Mount Royal Cougars men’s golf team came home from Ontario with a bronze medal in CCAA Nationals.
This is the first time men’s golf has medaled in nationals since 2001.
Hosted by St. Clair College in Windsor, Ontario at the Ambassador Golf Club the team had a three-day total of 897 to [...]

Despite the recession spelling downsize for many Canadian companies, such was not the case for Canadian universities and colleges, which saw substantial increases across the country in applications for the 2009/10 academic year.
Mount Royal University received a large, but as yet undisclosed, number of applications for the fall semester, accounting for an increase of [...]

5. New coaches added to Cougars’ pack
Three new faces will man the benches as the Cougars kick off 2009-10 ACAC action.
Sandra Lamb, who has served as an off-campus coach for the Cougars women’s volleyball team the past nine seasons, was promoted to an on-campus position for the fall as the Cats look to get back [...]

Just one week before fall semester classes begin, it was announced in an emotional ceremony Thursday that Mount Royal College is now Mount Royal University.
The much anticipated “historic milestone” was finally revealed to a packed house of past and present Mount Royal students, faculty and staff at Kenyon Court by Alberta Premier Ed Stelmach.
“When we [...]

The Alberta government has pledged $20 million towards the construction of the $60 million “state-of-the-art” Mount Royal Conservatory of Music and the federal government is willing to kick in the same amount if the City of Calgary participates as well.
These announcements — made during a news conference Tuesday morning at the college — come as [...]

Fall parking passes at Mount Royal College under a new pricing structure and “free-for-all” system that sees students, staff and faculty sharing general lots have officially sold out in record time.
Passes went on sale the morning of July 2 and four days later there were none to be had with the exception of evening/weekend passes, [...]