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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Michael Jordan’s blue North Carolina shorts underneath his Bulls uniform, Tiger Wood’s red shirts, and Patrick Roy’s mental mind games with his net. These three rituals, while simple in description have a major impact on the performance of those three athletes.
Superstitions seem to pop up everywhere in the world of sports — athletes begin to [...]

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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Hey there sports fans! In case you haven’t noticed the Cougars men’s hockey team is hotter than hot of late. Their latest win a 5-3 routing of the Grant MacEwan Griffins coming on Nov. 27 and then a 4-1 thrashing on Nov. 28. The back to back wins put the Cougars at a very impressive [...]

Good day friends! I know you’ve already got your hot little hands on the most recent edition of The Reflector on an MRU newstand or computer near you and because of that you have read our little ditty on MRU’s school spirit.
Now I am going to admit that I myself need to ramp up my [...]

by Amy Gregson
The Reflector
As a ringette player for the past 15 years in Finland, Mari Ahvensalmi had always dreamt of coming to Canada to play ringette and study for a period of time.
A trip to Canada with her ringette team, coupled with taking up hockey five years ago, solidified her desire to play and [...]

A lot of things are pretty new for 18-year-old Oluwafemi Ogun.
Just over a year ago at the age of 17, he moved to Canada from Lagos, Nigeria, leaving his family behind.
This September, he began his first year of university.
Even the sport of basketball — one of the main reasons he came to Canada — is [...]

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 [...]