Blazers Women's Volleyball Sign Outside Swinger Sawatzky
The CMU Women's Volleyball program is very pleased to announce the commitment of Julia Sawatzky for the 2022-23 MCAC season. The Dakota Collegiate product will add versatility and grit to the Blazers' lineup, not to mention great leadership potential and a wealth of experience in big-game scenarios.
Sawatzky's high school volleyball with the Dakota Lancers has seen her and her team gain plenty of success throughout her career there. She captained the Junior Varsity squad, which made an appearance in the Final four at at Provincials the AAAA level, and also took home championship banners from both the MBCI and Maples tournaments during the season. Personally, she also received tournament all-star recognition that season at the St Mary's tournament, and was named the Grade 10 Female Athlete of the Year at Dakota. After a season lost to COVID, Sawatzky picked up where she left off, captaining Dakota's varsity team to a third place finish in the Manitoba High School Athletics' SCAC zone and a top eight finish at provincials, and earned herself graduating all-star recognition along the way.
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Blazers Raid Oak Park for Women's Soccer Talent
The CMU Women's Soccer program is very pleased to announce the commitment of Louisa Morton for the 2022-23 MCAC season. Morton is the second Oak Park High product to join Blazers women's soccer this off-season and comes to CMU with a championship pedigree at the club level.
After finishing the Winnipeg High School Indoor League Premiership division playoff round in second place Morton is gearing up for the high school outdoor season with her Oak Park Raiders, provided the snow ever melts off the fields. Louisa will join her Raiders teammate Juliana Marucci with the Blazers later this year for the MCAC outdoor season which begins in September. While Marucci will look to backstop the Blazers to another playoff run, Morton will be looking to hold down the midfield and control the centre of the pitch.
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Blazers Keep Fort Richmond Connection Strong with New Recruit Ikizakubuntu
The CMU Women's Basketball program is very pleased to announce the commitment of point guard Elizabeth Ikizakubuntu for the 2022-23 MCAC and NIAC seasons. The Fort Richmond Collegiate product comes to CMU with high hopes for making an immediate impact on the program.
Elizabeth Ikizakubuntu joins CMU Blazers Athletics as part of a steady stream of Fort Richmond Collegiate grads to join the ranks over the past number of seasons, and will look to fill the shoes of outgoing graduate, and defensive all-star point guard Shirliz Apiyo, herself a former Fort Richmond Centurion. The Centurion to CMU connection has been strong in recent years, starting with Apiyo, who joined the Blazers in 2017, and also includes Blazers soccer captains Tiegan Kroeker and Will Anderson, as well as 2020 men's volleyball recruit Felix Stetefeld, along with his teammate Duncan Petrie who joined the Blazers for the 2021-22 season as just a few examples of current CMU student-athletes that were once Centurions.
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Men's Soccer Looks to Excel with the Addition of Elite Talent Newman
The CMU Men's Soccer program is very pleased to announce the commitment of Landon Newman for the 2022-23 MCAC season. The College Beliveau product comes to CMU by way of the Elite & Excel Sports Management agency.
Following MCAC Finals appearances in both outdoor soccer back in October, as well as futsal this past March, Blazers men's soccer is looking ahead to the 2022-23 season and it's next recruiting class to give the team the boost it needs to become champions once again. That recruiting class starts with the signing of local Winnipeg talent Landon Newman, a quick and powerful winger with a nose for the goal.
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Green and Gold Banquet Returns to Honour 21-22 Accomplishments
The 2021-22 Blazers Athletics seasons officially wrapped up on Friday night with the first in-person Green and Gold Banquet since spring of 2019, which honours both team and individual accomplishments of CMU's soccer, volleyball, and basketball programs. After a last-minute move to an online format for the spring 2020 edition of the awards ceremony, and the cancelled seasons last year, this was the first in-person edition in three years.
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