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WAl’tRux) CHRONICLE - Wednesday, April at was - 27 â€"m hwâ€"fime Golden girl , O I O O O , O WLU s curling skip Hollre Nwol wms the schools outstanding woman award BY Boa VW ment with an active commitment to developâ€" ‘7’1'0’1‘1‘195‘011 ing young athletes through community teaching or coaching. lirid Laurier University‘s Hollie In addition to balancing her own playing WNicol had been on the button all t: and academic commitments. Nicol also week so it shouldn‘t have come as a -- :3 found time to volunteer with numerous surprise when she won the Outstanding 9%” groups at her adopted home. the K-W Gran- Women oflaurieraward last Thursday. " ite Curling Club. including the Special The twotime Canadian lnteruniversity Olympics programi She instructed wheel- Sports women‘s curling champ had claimed ‘3 " a chair curlers and worked one-on-one with a her second straight national title the Sunday f§§9 . little boy with arthritis. And whenever the before. throwing a perfect shot to the button j in“. Granite (‘Jub or other curling groups put out . in the tenth end to beat the St. Mary's a. ‘. thecallforhelpshealso servedasacelebrity Huskies 674 at the Royal Montreal Curling "“1 ' skip fora number oflocal fundraisers (Ilub in Montreal. . "The Granite Club has just been amazing She was the skip of the team. and shot 88 to us. so whenever they needed help we defi- per cent in the final against the Huskies. She nitely gave it to them because they've sup- was named the CIS female athlete of the ported ussomuch,‘ said Nicol. week for her efforts. Nicol said the last four years has given her ”1 think I'll be smiling for a week," said the ability to deal with the pressure that Nicol after the awards ceremony as all the comes with having to make the winning shot. accolades started to pile up. “This is pretty _ and being in the national finals and world amazing." gt: . university finals might serve as a stepping lt capped off a season where Nicol and her a} stone for bigger things ‘ laurier rink of Danielle Inglis. who shot 95 ing- "The girls i curled with have decided to per cent in the finals. and OUA allâ€"stars Laura 2:233? stay together even though l won't be at [auri- Hickey and Hilary McDermott also won silver er,“ said Nicol who is graduating and plan- at the “inter Universade Games in Harbin, ning to study law next year at Western. China. , “Hearing the speeches about the Olympics "It was an amazing feeling to represent 7 makes me want to get there. Canada with the maple leaf on my back and _ "University curling fills that gap between the Golden Hawk in my heart." said Nicol : Q; junior curling and women’s curling so we've after accepting the award. ‘ I established ourselves here so the next step is Nicol‘s rink lost 6-5 in the finals to the ‘ . _ movingontowomen's' host Chinese team. and it wasn’t lost on the . A Unfortunately. when the next university ' founh-year-kinesiology major that the same . 7 curling season comes around she might be day she won her second CIS title that same ~ suiting up with Western against her old team- Chinese team won the women’s world curl» ‘ mates ing championship. .94 3‘ 7 ‘7‘ "Maybe H] be playing against them next "Coming back with a silver was pretty “3 : ;j year â€" that would be kind of ironic." she amazing," said Nicol. "Someone made the â€"-. 332.; said. “But I would still getto curl with them.” comment about them winning the worlds ' 7 7" . in addition to Nicol’s award. the event the same day that we won the nationals â€" it held at the Waterloo Inn also honoured for- was kind ofcool. met volleyball star Carol Stewart with the "The fact that they won women‘s world laurier Alumni Founders Award. kind of makes our silwar medal mean a little Olympian leah Hobson was the keynote bit more" ' speaker, and the 38â€"year-old Waterloo native That's pretty heady company to keep, but regaled the crowd with her experiences at the the gracious Nicol was quick to thank her Hollie Nicol, skip of the gold-medal winning lerid Laurier University curling team, was 2008 Summer Games in China The Olympic teammates for the opportunities they provid- selected for the school's Outstanding Woman of Laurier Award. cyclist also shared her amazing story of how ed for here “W "0’0 she came back to the sport alter a long layoff "It should be all four of us up here. othercandidatcs for the fourth annual award andinthecommunity. andwonabronze at the Montreal Women's because without you guys i wouldn't have which included Renata Adamayk. captain of But it was Nicol's own work in the com- cydingWorld Cup, qualifying for one of the accomplished the things that I have,‘ said the Hawks' women‘s basketball team, and munity that made her an excellent choice for lmt spots on team Canada. 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