Jessica Marx-Houndle: November's Lionheart Sports Female Athlete of the Month
Congratulations to Jessica Marx-Houndle of Women's Basketball on being selected the CMU Lionheart Sports Female Athlete of the Month for November. Marx-Houndle led the Blazers to a record of 4-1 through the month of November, good for a share of first-place in the NIAC Women's Basketball standings as the conference winds down for exams and the approaching semester break.
Continue ReadingCougars No Match For Hofer-led Blazers As CMU Improves to 6-0
Carter Hofer pounded 19 kills over three sets on Saturday afternoon as CMU scored another impressive home court win, 3-0 over the Assiniboine Cougars. Coming off a dominant performance of 10 kills in Friday's win over their Brandon-based opponents, the 6'3 left side was an even stronger force in the front row, leading CMU to their 6th consecutive conference regular season win in three sets; 25-21. 26-24, 25-16.
Continue ReadingBlazers Dig In For Five Set Comeback Win Over Assiniboine
CMU kept their perfect home court record in tact on Friday night, coming from behind to edge the Assiniboine Cougars 3-2. The visitors jumped ahead 1-0 after the first set winning 25-23 and came within a point of increasing their lead to 2-0, leading 24-23 in the second set only to see the hosts battle back for a 28-26 win. Sadie McTavish would crush one of her 14 kills in the match for the set-winner.
Continue ReadingBruised Blazers Begin New Season With Two Wins Over Trinity
The injury bug effecting women's basketball has now officially been carried from the preseason into the regular season but it didn't stop CMU from collecting two wins in their first weekend of NIAC play in Ellendale last weekend, despite their reduced roster.
Fourth year guard Jessica Marx-Houndle led by example on Sunday, scoring 23 points and grabbing 13 rebounds as CMU topped the Trinity Lions 67-48. The Blazers' success was in now way a small feat. CMU entered the weekend action without the services of 2019 leading scorer and NIAC women's basketball Most Valuable Player Julia Schatkowsky and third-year forward Carley Matkowski. Madison Wood also came up big in the win, scoring 14 points while adding 8 rebounds and 4 steals.
Continue ReadingGayleard Honoured With Prestigious Tom Longboat Award
Rookie CMU outside hitter Cam Gayleard was recently announced as the recipient of a major national sports recognition. The Tom Longboat Award is given out annually to a male and female indigenous athlete, at both a regional and national level.
Gayleard, a rookie metis-athlete is in his first season with the Men's Volleyball team after graduating in 2019 from Manitoba's Lord Selkirk Regional Comprehensive Secondary School. Honoured to be recognized with a national award, the 6'1 left-side attacker shares the Tom Longboat spotlight with Lyric Atchison, a women's rugby player for the University of British Columbia Thunderbirds.
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