Pembroke campus Loggersports team revs up for the Grey Cup!

Posted on Friday, November 27th, 2015

Loggersports team website

The familiar roar of a chainsaw will echo through Investors Group Field as Algonquin College’s Loggersports team cheers on the Ottawa REDBLACKS in this Sunday’s 103rd Grey Cup Championship game. Members of the Loggersports team will be travelling to Winnipeg to cheer on Ottawa’s CFL team.

Algonquin College President, Cheryl Jensen, says this is a wonderful opportunity for the Loggersports team to be part of one of Canada’s signature sporting events. “The Grey Cup game is watched by millions of Canadians every year and we are thrilled to have our Loggersports team in Winnipeg as part of our partnership with the Ottawa REDBLACKS football club. For our College community, having the Loggersports team on the sidelines will make Ottawa’s first Grey Cup appearance since 1981, even more special than it already is,” says Jensen.

Since the REDBLACKS inception, the Loggersports team has been at every home game including last weekend’s thrilling Eastern Final that propelled Ottawa into the title game. This year alone, the Loggersports squad has cut 39 wooden cookies, a symbol of the REDBLACKS high powered offence led by league most valuable player, veteran quarterback Henry Burris.

The Loggersports team is supported by both Algonquin College and the Algonquin Students’ Association. The team is part of the Intercollegiate Lumberjack Association and competes in several competitions each year against other colleges and universities from across Eastern Canada and the Northeastern United States.

Meanwhile, in an email to President Glenn Feltham at the Edmonton-based Northern Alberta Institute of Technology (NAIT), Algonquin College President Cheryl Jensen made a friendly wager over Sunday’s game:

…In the unlikely event of an Edmonton win, I will wear an Edmonton Eskimos jersey for a day, and send a video to you praising the virtues of your hometown team. I would challenge you to wear a REDBLACKS jersey and send me a similar video. I would suggest you start rehearsing.

President Feltham has accepted the offer.

So, if you weren’t already rooting for Ottawa here are two more reasons to cheer on the R-R-R-R-REDBLACKS!


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