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CMU Blazers Kroeker, Klassen, Hofer earn CCAA Academic All-Canadian honours
It has been almost a year since the Canadian Mennonite University Blazers and the Manitoba Colleges Athletic Conference were welcomed into the CCAA and on Tuesday, Tiegan Kroeker, Jana Klassen, and Carter Hofer became the first CMU student-athletes to be officially recognized by the national conference with a major award.
The distinction of Canadian Collegiate Athletic Conference Academic All-Canadian is designated to student-athletes from across Canada who were recognized by their region as a member of the All-Conference Team while maintain an academic grade-point-average of at least 3.70 in the given academic year. 190 student-athletes from across the CCAA's five conferences were listed in this class of excellence, including seven from Manitoba. Ontario's Humber College led the nation with 15 total recipients.
In her second season, Kroeker captained the CMU women's soccer team and earned her first all-conference selection last October. The graduate of Winnipeg's Fort Richmond Collegiate scored once for the Blazers in the 2019 season despite playing most of her minutes from central defence; a goal that ultimately clinched the final MCAC playoff spot for her team.
Being recognized as one of the first CMU athletes by the CCAA is a perfect ending to a stellar collegiate career for Klassen. The fifth-year Blazers floor captain earned her 2nd all-conference selection in 2020 and finished second in scoring with 275 kills. The native of Calgary, AB was also recently selected as a co-winner of CMU's Female Athlete of the Year after leading her team to a 2020 MCAC Women's Volleyball Championship.
Carter Hofer's play spoke for itself in 2019-20. The third-year captain led CMU to another championship banner, the second in his three-year MCAC career. Hofer's 201 kills led the Blazers offensively and placed him third on the MCAC's Men's Volleyball leaderboard. The talented left-side hitter from Winnipeg's Linden Christian School added 50 service aces and 21 blocks to his season total.
The Canadian Collegiate Athletic Conference is made up of the PacWest Conference (BC), ACAC (Alberta), OCAA (Ontario), RSEQ (Quebec), ACAA (Atlantic Canada) and the MCAC (Manitoba) and boasts more than 100 member colleges and universities from across the country.
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Fiction you don’t have to fear: suggestions for reading in a pandemic
by Sue Sorensen
In this strange time...
Are you tired of hearing phrases like in this strange time? Me too. Still, in this strange time, while looking at stacks of books I've been longing to get at, I can't help but feel conflicted. I'm not surprised at my thorny relationship with reading in a difficult time: I've been here before. One of several difficult reading experiences occurred during chemotherapy two years ago. I had all this time on my hands, but what books could I handle? (I started by reading again all the Narnia books and then the Harry Potter series.)
Children in the classroom
If you had walked into Dr. Janet Brenneman's Early Musical Development course last semester, you might have been surprised at what you would have found: a group of preschoolers.
Brenneman, Associate Professor of Music at CMU, invited children from Assiniboine Castle Daycare to come to her university class for five weeks, so her students could gain hands-on teaching experience.
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Bridging the COVID-19 Study-Gap: CMU’s volunteer tutoring collective goes online to help students finish strong
PAL, or Peer Assisted Learning, is a peer-tutoring program run each year at CMU by a collective of student volunteers. Normally, PAL holds drop-in hours on campus throughout the week, offering fellow students help with homework, essay writing, test prep, study skills, and more. This year, with courses moved suddenly online, students are grappling with new challenges, and PAL is offering new solutions.
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Baritone Nathan Dyck winner of 15th annual Verna Mae Janzen Music Competition
Despite uncertainty and the changing circumstances of campus life under COVID-19, competitors in this year's Verna Mae Janzen Music Competition kept their focus.
Singing to a closed auditorium of adjudicators only instead of the usual community audience, seven finalists gave it their all: Michelle Fast (soprano), Georgeanne Van Helden (piano), Katy Unruh (soprano), Anna Schwartz (piano), Nathan Dyck (baritone), Anne Kelm (piano), and Johanna Klassen (soprano).
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