The Wilfrid Laurier Golden Hawks is the name used by the varsity sports teams of Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. The university's varsity teams compete in the Ontario University Athletics conference of the Canadian Interuniversity Sport and, where applicable, in the west division.
The football program has become one of the best in the conference, recently winning a Vanier Cup national championship in 2005 to go along with their previous title in 1991. Since 2003, the team has not finished lower than fourth in the ten-team OUA conference under the guidance of head coach Gary Jeffries.
The women's varsity hockey team have become very successful, winning their first OUA championship in their 1998–1999 season, winning six consecutive years in a row (2002–2008). They also won Nationals in 2004–2005.
The Golden Hawk Cheerleading team has also risen to prominence in the last few years having won 3 national championship titles at the prestigious University National Cheerleading Championships conducted by Power Cheerleading Athletics. The Golden Hawk Cheerleaders have been ranked in the top five squads in the nation at least 8 times in the past 10 years, winning 3 national titles in 2007, 2008 (in the All-Female division) and 2009 (in the Small-Coed division).
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