Ireland Compton
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Sports
Alex Tessier Lends a Hand as Skills Coach With Former Team
After her five years of eligibility as a varsity athlete were up, Alex Tessier managed to find a way to stay involved with her former team while finishing up the last year of her finance degree—coaching.
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Sports
UBC 41, Concordia 8: Stingers Men’s Rugby Stunned by Reigning Champions
The Stingers men’s rugby team fell victim to the University of British Columbia Thunderbirds in the opening matchup of the Canadian University Men’s Rugby Championships by a score of 41-8.
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Sports
Maurice Simba First Canadian University Player to Attend NFLPA Bowl Game
Concordia football’s Maurice Simba has been selected as the first Canadian university athlete in history to play in the NFLPA Collegiate Bowl at the Rose Bowl, to be held in Pasadena, CA this coming January.
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News
Toxic Masculinity Workshop Picks Apart the Roots of Patriarchy
McGill Student Arno Pedram is working to smash the patriarchy one workshop at a time.
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Sports
Canadiennes 2, Inferno 1: Les Canadiennes Put Out Inferno in Home Opener
The Canadian Women’s Hockey League’s Les Canadiennes opened their season on their new home ice on Saturday night, facing off against Calgary’s Inferno in a double-header with the AHL’s Laval Rocket in front of a crowd of over 1,500 people.
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Sports
Stingers Women’s Rugby Show Heart in Loss to Sherbrooke
While the Concordia women’s rugby team did not necessarily come in expecting to win in Friday night’s game versus Sherbrooke, they definitely showed up to play.
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News
Concordia Bomb Hoax Suspect Sentenced to 18 Months in Prison
Hisham Saadi, the man responsible for issuing bomb threats to Concordia University in March of 2017, was sentenced to 18 months in prison Friday afternoon.
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Special Issue
The Coerced Sterilization of Indigenous Women in Canada
The signing of the Canadian Confederation in 1867 saw the birth of our great country, Canada. What many people fail to see looking back on this period is that Canada was, in fact, not all that great.
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Sports
The Many Roles of Hockey Coach David Singh
In 2016, David Singh joined Concordia’s women’s hockey team as a part-time assistant coach, adding to his already extensive list of professional and volunteer experience.
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Sports
Concordia 36, Université de Montréal 3: Stingers Men’s Rugby Builds on Unbeaten Streak
Things got off to rough start for the Stingers men’s rugby team on Friday night, going down 3-0 after being backed onto their own try-line, taking penalty after penalty just minutes into the first half.
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Sports
U Sports Announces New Policy for Transgender Student-Athletes
U Sports announced in a press release Thursday morning that it has adopted a new policy aimed at being inclusive to all athletes.
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Sports
Caroline Ouellette Joins Canadiennes Staff as Technical Skills Coach
The same day she released a letter announcing her retirement from both Canada’s national team and Les Canadiennes as a player, Caroline Ouellette was back on the ice. Only this time in a new role as a member of Les Canadiennes’ staff.
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Sports
Les Canadiennes Skate Into New Home at Laval’s Place Bell
Montreal’s Les Canadiennes have found themselves a new, more permanent home for the upcoming 2018-2019 season in the Laval Rockets’ home arena, Place Bell.
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Sports
Stingers Men’s Rugby Come Out Strong in Home Opener
The Stingers men’s rugby team established themselves as a worthy competitor in Friday night’s home opener against Université de Sherbrooke’s Vert-et-Or.
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Sports
Dubois and Purchase to Represent Stingers at Hockey Canada Fall Festival
Concordia’s women’s hockey team all-stars Claudia Dubois and Katherine Purchase are headed to British Columbia next weekend, where they will be taking part in Hockey Canada’s annual Fall Festival, which showcases women’s hockey’s best and brightest as they compete for a spot on Team Canada’s roster.
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Sports
Former Stinger Brad Collinson Changing Culture as New Football Coach
After just one practice with the team, it had already become clear that Brad Collinson has a clear vision for this program—excellence.
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Sports
Concordia 0, UQAM 0: Both Teams Leave on Even Ground in Stingers Women’s Soccer Home Opener
Wednesday night marked the beginning of the Concordia Stingers’ women’s soccer program’s Reseau de sport étudiant du Québec season. With a solid effort on behalf of either side, both teams emerged empty handed, the game ending in a 0-0 draw.
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Sports
Marie-Joëlle Allard and Caroll-Ann Gagné Drafted by the CWHL’s Canadiennes
Former Stingers Marie-Joëlle Allard and Caroll-Ann Gagné have been selected by Les Canadiennes de Montréal in the Canadian Women’s Hockey League draft, which took place Sunday afternoon.
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Sports
Les Canadiennes Add Genevieve Lacasse and Jillian Saulnier
Les Canadiennes announced on Thursday morning the addition of goaltender Genevieve Lacasse and forward Jillian Saulnier, formerly of the Calgary Inferno.