Sports & Fitness

  • Winnipeg to host national dodgeball tournament

    Canada’s top dodgeball players will head to Winnipeg next year. In January, the city won the bid to host the third annual Canadian National Dodgeball Championship Tournament in April 2018, a move event director Mat Klachefsky calls a “huge win” for the local dodgeball community. 

  • Manitoba Open winding up for curling event

    Bonspiel has been hurrying hard for 125 years 

  • Athletics for all

    Breaking down student athletic and rec fees

  • Wesmen acknowledge land and people

    Teams seeking to build relationships in the community

  • From new starts to starters

    The Immigrant and Refugee Community Organization of Manitoba (IRCOM) is helping ease the arrival of newcomer youth and children in Canada through sports. 

  • Favourite Local rec league or casual sport

    1. Dodgeball Winnipeg
    2. Ultimate Frisbee (Winnipeg Rec League)
    3. Softball

  • Favourite Local Athlete

    1. James Reimer
    2. Jonathan Toews
    3. Honourable mentions: Desiree Scott, Mark Scheifele, Clara Hughes

  • What is a Wesmen?

    “The Wesmen” has a long historical background and meaning, but over time, its meaning has changed in the context of sports. The name given to University of Winnipeg sports teams has morphed into the desired identity of those who engage and connect with it. But, at the core, what truly is a Wesmen? 

  • Wrestling out West

    U of W hosts Canada West Wrestling Championship for first time

  • Drop in and have a ball

    Free intramurals offered to students at the RecPlex

  • Growing stronger

    Wesmen wrestling program gets more athletes and support

  • Their best offence is good defence

    Wesmen men’s volleyball team swaps strategies this season

  • Bouncin’ good times

    Bubble soccer ‘a cross between soccer and bumper cars’

  • Balls to the wall

    Winnipeg dodgeball is taking a leap to the next level

  • Breaking ground

    New blood in the men’s Wesmen soccer ranks

  • Coming back strong

    The University of Winnipeg Wesmen women’s soccer team has a new outlook on competition in 2015. 

  • On the Top Rope

    There’s a boom happening in Winnipeg right now. It’s a local scene experiencing the type of renaissance that one rarely sees in action. There’s a good chance you’ve never heard of it, because it receives virtually no coverage from the local press. 

  • A Fine Balance

    Stephanie Kleysen works harder than you. As a five-year Wesmen veteran and captain of the women’s basketball team, Netflix black holes and other time-sucking, brain-numbing hobbies simply don’t exist on the young athlete’s watch.

  • A quarter tank of passion

    The Winnipeg Jets are stuck at a crossroads. 

  • The value of play

    There are a few things in life that transcend the divides of language, affluence, status and belief – a few rituals that connect groups of people on a level that words just don’t do justice. These collaborations creating unspoken bonds most often take the form of music, art, dance and sport. When our most ingrained patterns of social behavior become stripped away, what’s left?  

    It’s simple: nothing but play.

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