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BRANDON, MB – For the second year in a row graduating volleyball stars Teagan Hunter and Paul Sanderson have been named outstanding female and outstanding males athletes respectively.
Hunter wrapped up a fantastic five-year career as a Bobcat where she set school career records for kills (1,006), digs (945), and points (1193).

BRANDON, MB — Now based in Vancouver, Brandon-raised writer and broadcaster Steve Burgess will be back in his hometown to give a reading on campus from his newly released book “Who Killed Mom? A Delinquent Son’s Meditation on Family, Mortality and Very Tacky Candles.”
As his mother begins to decline in her old age–suffering from Parkinson, esophageal and thyroid problems, a possible brain lesion, and restless leg syndrome, Steve, his father and his four siblings gather to support her during her prolonged ordeal.

BRANDON, MB — Brandon University Associate Professor and internationally acclaimed pianist Alexander Tselyakov, along with his son Daniel Tselyakov, who is wrapping up his first year of music studies at BU, will give a fundraising concert for the survivors of the earthquake and tsunami in Japan.
The two musicians will perform the Piano Concerto No. 2 in G minor, Op. 16 by Sergei Prokofiev.

BRANDON, MB – The coaching staff of the Brandon Bobcats women’s volleyball team has gone west to find their latest recruit. The ‘Cats have signed Brianna Walsh to a letter of intent to play in Brandon next year.

BRANDON, MB – Local basketball players will soon have the opportunity to hit the floor and play both with and against the Brandon Bobcats. The annual Bobcats Spring Basketball League will begin again in an expanded format this May.
The Brandon Bobcats basketball teams are adding a men’s component to the traditional Ladies Spring League.

BRANDON, MB – One week after announcing the first recruit for next season, Bobcats men‟s volleyball head coach Russ Paddock is pleased to announce another.
David Stasica of Mennonite Brethren Collegiate Institute in Winnipeg has signed a letter of intent to play for the Bobcats in 2011-2012.

BRANDON, MB — The latest book by two of Brandon University’s own — Reinhold Kramer and Tom Mitchell — has been nominated for the 2011 John W. Dafoe Prize. Their collaborative work entitled When the State Trembled: How A. J. Andrews and The Citizens’ Committee Broke The Winnipeg General Strike is one of the five books selected for the shortlist.