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The athletes have spoken and the Manitoba Colleges Athletic Conference (MCAC) has listened, deciding last Friday to prolong their decision date to September 16th pertaining to the playing or cancellation of the 2020 soccer season. The MCAC is one of only two Canadian post secondary athletics conferences still working at plans for a 2020-21 season […]
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Charisse Cyr will be joining the CMU women's volleyball coaching staff this fall as part of an Indigenous coach mentoring partnership with the Manitoba Aboriginal Sports and Recreation Council (MASRC) and Agoojin Volleyball Club. Cyr is a member of Cote First Nation and works as an Intervention Support Facilitator with the Manitoba First Nation School […]
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The countdown is on to the Manitoba Colleges Athletic Conference's 2020 kickoff and with their first matches being just over a month away, CMU has received the commitment of Waterloo United u18 striker Tim Shantz. Described by his club coach, Rafael Amaya as a "motivated and hard-working young man", Shantz led his "A" class youth […]
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Sisler High School's Aira Abello has officially committed to the CMU Women's Basketball program for 2020-21, becoming the highest ranking Manitoba High School girls player to ever sign with the Blazers. The offensively-gifted Spartans guard was listed as the #3 ranked player in the province in the annual Winnipeg Sun's list of the top ten […]
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CMU added another key recruit to their 2020 Men's Basketball first-year class, signing 6'4 Maples Collegiate forward Ezra Leano for the 2020-21 NIAC season. Blazers' head coach Scott Martin described Leano as, "an inside and outside offensive threat who comes from a strong, well-coached high school program." After guiding the Marauders to the AAAA Provincial […]
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With a full year of collegiate basketball now on his resume, CMU head coach Scott Martin is continuing to piece together his roster for 2020-21, adding the commitment of Dakota Collegiate forward Elliott Russenholt this week. At 6'3, Russenholt is expected to be the kind of forward that can stretch defenses as a solid outside […]
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Despite the cancellation announcements coming from most Canadian university and college athletic conferences, CMU and the Manitoba Colleges Athletic Conference (MCAC), are indeed moving forward with plans to compete in soccer, volleyball, basketball and futsal. "As a province, Manitoba has handled this pandemic extremely well so far and with most of our MCAC campuses planning […]
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A former Red River Rebels Most Valuable Player and a 2017-18 MCAC All-Conference selection, Alex Castro has signed his letter of intent to wear green and gold this season where he will reunite with several former teammates including CMU head coach Anderson Pereira. A product of the FC Northwest youth system, Castro and the Winnipeg-based […]
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CMU head coach Jayme Menzies has assembled a strong structure for her 2020-21 roster and annouced a new addition recently just as plans emerge from Manitoba Volleyball and the MCAC for a return to play. The newest Blazer, Annika Kornelsen is an athletic 5'8 outside hitter from Winnipeg's Glenlawn Collegiate. Playing mostly left-side, the Lions […]
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The CMU Blazers are very happy to announce the commitment of Sturgeon Height's Collegiate's Faith Ridd for the 2020-21 MCAC season. Perhaps the 5'11 middle attacker's greatest success came at the 15-u level when she guided her Junior Wesmen club team to a 4th place finish at the Canadian National Championships. In her final season […]
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