Lakehead Thunderwolves
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| Lakehead Thunderwolves | |
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| University | Lakehead University |
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| Conference | Canadian Interuniversity Sport |
| Association | Ontario University Athletics |
| Athletics director | Tom Warden |
| Location | Thunder Bay, Ontario |
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| Arena | Fort William Gardens |
| Gymnasium | C.J. Sanders Fieldhouse |
| Mascot | Wolf |
| Nickname | Wolfie |
| Colours | Blue and White and Yellow
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| Website | [[1] Athletics Site] |
The Lakehead Thunderwolves are the varsity athletic teams that represent Lakehead University in Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada. Varsity teams include men's hockey, men's and women's track, women's volleyball, men's and women's basketball, Nordic skiing, cross country running and men's and women's wrestling.
See also Canadian Interuniversity Sport and Ontario university athletics.
The Lakehead Thunderwolves are perennial powers in the OUA and CIS in Nordic Skiing and wrestling. Their men's hockey program, started in 2001-02, annually leads the CIS in attendance with minor pro attendance numbers (3000 per game) and has become one of the better programs in CIS men's hockey.
The team won the OUA Queen's Cup conference championship in 2005-06, defeating the McGill Redmen in the one-game final, and subsequently placed second at the CIS National Championships in Edmonton, Alberta.
In each of its seven seasons, the hockey team has won at least one playoff round and has gone 14-2 on home ice in the playoffs. The Thunderwolves have qualified for the CIS National Championship twice in seven seasons of play. They will host the CIS National Championships in 2009 and 2010.
Men's and women's basketball, women's volleyball, track, and cross country have had varying degrees of success, and most of these programs have shown improvement over the past couple seasons.
The men's wrestling team is ranked in the CIS Top 10 each year and the women's team is ranked in the North American Top 15.
The women's and men's Nordic ski teams won both the OUA conference and CIS-CCUNC national team championships in both 2005 and 2006. The women's and men's team four-peated for the OUA Championships in 2008 while the women won their fifth consecutive CIS-CCUNC national championship.
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Lakehead has been a leader in Canadian University independent broadcasting and does the most independent broadcasting of any OUA or CIS university with live videowebcasts of all sports but Nordic skiing which can be accessed off Lakehead's two athletic sites as well as basketball being carried live on campus radio station CILU-FM. Men's away hockey games are carried by commercial station Rock94.
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