Griffin’s golf team gone after ACAC highs
Originally published on January 1, 2025. Walking through the pedway between Building 8 and SAMU, it’s hard not to notice the walls of banners in the David Atkinson Gymnasium. These banners celebrate the many successes in the Alberta Colleges Athletics Conference (ACAC) that the MacEwan Griffins teams have celebrated over the years. 18 of those banners, dating back as recently as 2019-20, are all that remains of the illustrious MacEwan University Griffins golf team. Like all our athletics programs, they shut down for a season due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Unlike most of them, they never returned. The COVID-19 shutdown served as something of a buffer for MacEwan Athletics. The 2019-20 seasons were cut short, and the following 2020-21...
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CORRECTION: Varun Chandrasekar’s name was mispelled in the article “Is Alberta micromanaging its universities?” We regret the error.
CORRECTION: The photo of Simar Nayar’s BMW 335is is misattributed. The photo is by Leo, or @flickz.lp on Instagram. We apologize for the error.
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