Lakehead Athletics is proud to present our RBC Athletes of the Month for November. They are listed team by team below. (L-R Hayden Gorman, Camille Hamm, Bridget O’Reilly, Dana Campbell, Kevin Leatherdale, Marla Keyes, Jessica Korchak, Justin Sefton, Bacarius Dinkins) Women’s Volleyball (4-6) Jessica Korchak (Thunder Bay) Coach Green: “In her 2nd…
It was a good day for Kevin Tree at the Senior National cross country running championships. The swift Thunderwolf finished 6th, thus qualifying him for the Canadian team for the second year in a row. With this performance Tree makes the Canadian National Team for the 2016 Pan American Champs in Caracas,…
Lakehead basketball will play their first road games of the regular season in St Catharines against the Brock Badgers this weekend. Friday’s games will be played at Brock’s Bob Davis Gymnasium (6pm and 8pm) while Saturday’s games will take on an arena atmosphere at The Meridian Centre, with game times at 5pm…
Lakehead’s Cross Country Running coach Kip Sigsworth received the good news earlier this month that he has been selected as the head coach of the Canadian running team attending the International University Sports Federation (FISU) Games. “I am honoured and excited to be leading the Canadian team to Italy,” exclaims Sigsworth. “This…
The women’s volleyball team (3-4) continue their regular season this weekend on the road with two games versus Guelph (Thurs-Fri) followed by a game against Ottawa (Sunday). “We take to the road for another three-game weekend, and had a solid week of training in some of the areas that hurt us previously,”…
Wrestling coach Francis Clayton traveled to Whitedog over the weekend to deliver a wrestling clinic to 20 local youth as part of Lakehead’s Reach up! program. Varsity wrestler Megan Smith also helped facilitate the day of teaching on the mat, held at Mizhakiiwetung Memorial School (MMS). This clinic was a…
Lakehead Basketball will host the Nipissing Lakers and the Laurentian Voyageurs this weekend. These are the final varsity basketball games in the Thunderdome prior to the December break for exams. Game times are 6pm (women) and 8pm (men) on Friday and Saturday. Lakehead Women (1-3) Fourth year Claire Abbott leads the Lakers into the…
The Lakehead women’s club hockey program has joined the American Collegiate Hockey Association. They are the first Canadian team to ever join the ACHA, where they will compete in the women’s Division 2, with 32 other teams. Lakehead received the good news earlier in October, when they were granted a provisional membership…
