No Nerves For Men's Volleyball As The Defending Champs Enter Final Fours
The Blazers are now 48 hours away from taking the first step in a successful title defense of the Manitoba Colleges Athetic Conference Men's Volleyball trophy they won exactly one year ago. But entering matches of this magnitude of importance with the a target on their backs, is nothing new for the team. 2019 will be the second year in a row where CMU expects to win and after solidifying the top-seed this season in mid-January with a nearly perfect record of 15-1, no one on the team is going to be losing sleep this week as they prepare for the 2019 MCAC Final Fours.
Continue ReadingPlett Scores Six As Women's Futsal Rediscovers Form Against Pilots
After Women's Futsal's record 16-match winning streak, (dating back to March 2017), came screeching to a halt on January 25th in a 7-2 home defeat to the Red River Rebels and CMU let a two-goal advantage slip away in the final few minutes in last night's 5-4 loss to the USB Rouges, the Blazers had their tails up and were back to scoring goals in large numbers on Sunday afternoon when they hosted the Providence Pilots.
Continue ReadingLate Rally Lifts Women's Basketball To Second-Straight MCAC Banner
Shirliz Apiyo's basket from just inside the 3-point line gave CMU a 53-51 lead with 20 seconds remaining in the fourth quarter as the Blazers erased a Providence Pilots lead that had ballooned to as many as 7 points with two and a half minutes left to play as CMU captured their second consecutive Championship in MCAC Women's Basketball on Saturday afternoon on home court.
Continue ReadingRoyal Arrival Spells First Step in 2019-20 Men's Volleyball Arrivals
CMU Men's Volleyball is pleased to announce the commitment of Lord Selkirk's Cam Gayleard as the first official signing of the 2019-20 MCAC season. Blazer's head coach Don Dulder praised the 6'1 left-side for his leadership and well-developed offensive and defensive game, when asked about his new recruit. "Cam has excellent leadership qualities as demonstrated by his being captain of his Selkirk 'AAAA' high school team," said Dulder, who will be entering his sixth season with the Men's Volleyball program. "He is an extremely good backrow player, a good passer and attacker - a quality person who will fit in well at CMU."
Continue ReadingRenee Desroches: January's Lionheart Sports Female Athlete Of The Month
Congratulations to Renée Desroches of Women's Volleyball on being selected the CMU Lionheart Sports Female Athlete of the Month for January. Beginning with a third-place finish at the OCAA mid-season 2019 Adidas Cup tournament in Oshawa, Desroches and the Blazers have retained their first-place position in the MCAC through the month of January, holding an advantage of two match-victories over second-place USB, (who have a match in hand on the Blazers) in the race for the conference's top-seed in February's Final Fours.
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