Playoff updates for every Cougars team
By Josh Werle, Staff Writer Making the playoffs is the ultimate goal for any sports team. Teams spend months battling day-after-day for a shot to compete in the playoffs and win their league’s ultimate...
Tagged: Cougars’ Corner
Coach’s Corner: Gilling leads the Cougars to the playoffs with momentum
By Josh Werle, Staff Writer The 2021-22 U SPORTS men’s hockey regular season has come to a close. The Mount Royal University (MRU) Cougars finished with a record of 13-6-1 which allowed them to...
Coach’s Corner: Fleckenstein cultivates a culture of connection
By Gage Smith, Sports Editor There aren’t many coaches in the U SPORTS league who can say they have experience from coast to coast. Robyn Fleckenstein, the head coach of Mount Royal University’s (MRU)...
Mid-Season report cards for all MRU Cougars teams
By George Potter, Staff Writer The Mount Royal University (MRU) Cougars have achieved some great things so far in the recent season. From winning bronze in men’s soccer to the women’s hockey and volleyball teams...
Coach’s Corner: Marc Dobell’s timeless style in a changing sport
By Gage Smith, Sports Editor Marc Dobell has been a men’s basketball coach for longer than Mount Royal has been a university. But his career with the school didn’t start on the bench, but...
Coach’s Corner: Shane Smith builds a new culture for the MRU women’s volleyball team
By George Potter, Staff Writer The Mount Royal University (MRU) Cougars have a new coach in town. Women’s volleyball interim head coach Shane Smith brings passion and experience to the team. Smith coached in...
Cougars men’s soccer shuts out the Wolfpack in bronze medal run
By George Potter, Staff Writer The Mount Royal University (MRU) Cougars men’s soccer team had a successful regular season, being on the top 10 rankings of U Sport in men’s soccer. On Oct. 30,...
Coach’s Corner: Meet Ryan Gyaki
By Gage Smith, Sports Editor The sports world has been dramatized and romanticized. Every player is a character and every play is a scene. It makes sense. That’s how you get an audience to tune...
After a historically long layoff, the Women’s soccer team kicks off the new season
By Gage Smith, Sports Editor Sept. 4 was the first gameday for a Mount Royal University (MRU) Cougars team since 2019. After a year off, the women’s soccer team started their season against the University...
MRU alumnus joins Canadian men’s volleyball Olympic team after back injury
by Riggs Zyrille Vergara, Publishing Editor After suffering from a back injury, Mount Royal University alumnus Jay Blankenau had to sit out Canada’s first chance at the Tokyo Olympics qualification back in March 2019. But...
