Canadian amateur athletes feel that the additional funding of fifty percent is a step in the right direction but still not enough.

With the increase of only $7.5 million a year to fund over a thousand carded athletes, as well as provide other aspects of the National Sports Center with money, many athletes feel that there is not enough to go around.

“By the time the money trickles down to us the athletes it will be like, here is an extra lunch,” said Rob Pike, 1998 Canadian National Pole Vaulting Champion. “The amount of money that we get is not even close to enough for what we need to compete properly. If you' re gonna do it, do it.”

Mount Royal College’s athletic department has chosen the new men’s basketball coach, to replace Ron Wuotila, who is leaving Mount Royal to go to Pittsburgh with his wife. 

Stephen Price is going to be the new coach effective August 15 contingent upon the fact that he finishes his master’s in coaching studies at the University of Victoria. 

However, Price is quite young - under 30, and not a veteran in the field like Wuotila. 

Paula Walker and Ryan Bennato took top honors at the 36th annual Cougar Night awards ceremony by winning the ACAC Cougar
Athletes of the Year. This year’s event was staged at the classy 400 Club on April 6 and began with the raising of the 25 Years of
Athletic Supremacy banner awarded to the college in the Fall.

During this prestigious ceremony Walker won the ACAC Female Athlete of the Year and shared the first ever joint team MVP for basketball with younger sister Annie.