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 [...]

From player, to assistant coach, to head coach of the Cougars women’s volleyball team and now a full-time employee with Cougar Athletics, Sandra Lamb has spent the bulk of her adult life at Mount Royal.
It all started in 1993 when Lamb walked onto the campus to begin her diploma in athletic therapy and on a [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Anyone who has attempted to play the game of golf has realized it can be extremely frustrating.
For many, memories of tossing a driver into the trees after hitting an errant tee shot into the drink seem to far outnumber that rare par save or scorecard that totaled less than 100.
For Cougars golfer Kolby Kniel, however, [...]