Posts Tagged ‘ Grant MacEwan ’

Big cats hit playoffs

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 [...]



MRU one semester in

Jan 13th, 2010 | Category: News

by Zoey Duncan 
News Editor

 

One semester into Mount Royal’s new existence as a university, plenty of changes are underway, and many more are brewing
 

 
The school has changed beyond recognition since Ron MacDonald began teaching at Mount Royal. MacDonald, an associate professor of journalism, said when he started 25 years ago the student population of what was [...]



Cougars, Calamities and Classics: Men’s team shreds Griffins & how much for the good doctor?

Nov 30th, 2009 | Category: Blogs, Cougars, calamities and classics

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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 [...]



Soccer champs

Nov 4th, 2009 | Category: Sports

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 [...]



Big Cats maul Rattlers

Sep 24th, 2009 | Category: Cougars Connection, Sports

If the Mount Royal men’s and women’s soccer team’s ACAC home openers were any indication of the Cougars desire to win this season, they are as sharp and ferocious as their name suggests.
After a shaky preseason, the women’s team started things off with a two-goal shutout over the Medicine Hat Rattlers with Jessica Stewart taking [...]