Fitness and Recreation Facilities

The cost to access campus fitness centres is included in your tuition, so don't just sit there. Climb a rock wall. Take a dance class. Give yoga a shot! If you’ve got the energy, we’ve got a program for you.

Waterloo Athletic Complex

The Athletic Complex in Waterloo includes an Olympic-size pool, a triple gymnasium, dance studios, and a large fitness centre. Outside, Alumni Field offers a full-sized, FIFA-certified, artificial surface for both intramurals and club teams. University Stadium is home to Golden Hawk football, soccer, rugby and lacrosse.

Laurier Brantford YMCA

The Laurier Brantford YMCA has an aquatics centre with a two-tank pool, a double and a single gym, a fitness centre with state-of-the-art equipment and Wi-Fi capabilities for fitness programs, three studios, multi-purpose spaces, and a lounge for Laurier students.

Intramurals and Sport Clubs

Every year, half our student body participates in our award-winning intramural program. Whether you want to lace up your sneakers for dodgeball, sharpen your skates for ice hockey, or don a swimsuit for inner tube water polo, there is an intramural sport for everyone.

Looking for a social sporting experience? Check out our sport clubs, run by students for students. With more than 20 different clubs available, you can participate in a wide variety of competitive and recreational sports and activities, including men’s lacrosse, ball hockey, equestrian and dragon boat racing.

Varsity Sports

Laurier has 550 varsity athletes on 22 varsity teams, including baseball, basketball, curling, football, soccer, hockey, lacrosse, rugby, swimming, cheerleading and more.

Cheer on our Golden Hawks as they compete in the Ontario University Athletics conference – Laurier has won 15 national and 76 provincial championships in the last 10 years alone.

Many of our varsity teams are based in Waterloo, but in addition to two varsity teams, Laurier's Brantford campus also has “extramurals” – tournament-based competitive sports – where the Golden Hawks compete in five sports against other colleges and universities across Ontario.

Interested in Varsity Sports?

Visit laurierathletics.com/recruiting and complete the recruiting form, which will be sent directly to the coach. Except for football, every team hosts open tryouts, so don’t hesitate to come out and give it your all.

Varsity Highlights

• 20 football players have been drafted into the CFL in the last 10 years, including three in the first round.
• Men's Golf had a season for the record books. Jaron Brown became only the third Golden Hawk to win the Len Shore Trophy as the OUA Individual Champion and helped secure the overall OUA Team Championship for the first time in program history.
• Men's Curling won its fourth OUA gold medal in the last six years. They followed that up with an unblemished record at the U SPORTS/Curling Canada Championships in Portage La Prairie, going 9-0 en route to their second national championship in five years.
• Cross Country and Track runner Lizzy Laurie joined the cross country team at Team Canada's 2020 FISU Games. Laurie had an outstanding season on the course for Laurier and was named an OUA All-Star and was also the first Golden Hawk to be named a Cross Country U SPORTS All-Canadian.
• On the track, Laurie won a silver at the U SPORTS Championships and was named a U SPORTS Second Team All-Canadian.