A historic season
Women’s hockey team
sets new benchmark
The Bison women’s hockey team made history during the 2008/2009 season by winning the first Canada West Championship in the team’s 12-year history. The history-making game lived up to its billing. It took triple overtime for the Bisons to triumph over the University of Alberta Pandas to clinch the title.
Watch those records fall
Bison swimmer breaks numerous provincial records in a breakout season
Swimming in the Olympic Pool in Montreal, Bison swimmer Braedon Taylor established a new provincial record in the 200 metre breaststroke at the 2008 CN Swimming Trials competition. Taylor went on to beat his own time at a follow up meet in Vancouver with another Manitoba provincial record in the 100 metre breaststroke.
Berube does it again
For second year in a row, men’s track and field coach is tops
For the second year in a row, Bison men’s track and field coach Claude Berube was selected as the Canada West Track and Field Men’s Coach of the Year. Berube led the Bison men’s track and field team to a successful defense of the title they won last season. The team became the first Manitoba team in over a decade to win back-to-back men’s titles.
Vanier Cup runneth over
Bison scholarships awarded to top athletes
Bison women’s soccer player Lesley Worsnop and Bison men’s volleyball player Chris Voth were selected to receive the first and only University of Manitoba Vanier Cup Bison Scholarships awarded by the Province of Manitoba. Worth $5000, the scholarship was established by the province in recognition of the University of Manitoba Bisons Football Vanier Cup Championship win in 2007. The scholarship is awarded to one male and one female student-athlete who are first-year University of Manitoba students. The selection is based on an athlete’s sport and academic standing as well as their volunteer commitment to amateur sport.
Bisons part of Team Canada
Students on international ice in China
Four Manitoba Bisons hockey players were selected to play for Team Canada at the 2009 Winter Universiade (World University Games) in Harbin, China in February 2009. Bisons forwards Mike Hellyer and Rick Wood plus defenseman Stewart Thiessen were selected to the men’s squad while goaltender Stacey Corfield was named to the women’s team.