The TRU WolfPack are the athletic teams that represent

Thompson Rivers University Thompson Rivers University (commonly referred to as TRU) is a Public university, public research university located in Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada. The university's name comes from the two rivers which converge in Kamloops, the North Thomp ...

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, Canada. They were known as the

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Sun Demons prior to 2005. The WolfPack became an official member of the

Canada West Universities Athletic Association Canada West (formally the Canada West Universities Athletic Association or CWUAA) is a regional membership association for universities in Western Canada which assists in co-ordinating competition between their university level athletic programs ...

on May 6, 2010.

Varsity teams

All compete in the

, which is a member

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— formerly known as Canadian Interuniversity Sport.

Basketball

* The WolfPack men's basketball team made it to the CIS Final 8 in 2015–16. They won a silver medal in Canada West in 2016.

Soccer

* The WolfPack men's soccer team won the U-Sports National Championship in 2022, 2–1 over The UBC Thunderbirds. TRU Wolfpack hosted the U-Sports men's soccer Championship in 2022. The Wolfpack men's soccer team placed third in the U-Sports National Championship in 2017. In 2018 they placed third in Canada West Playoffs.

Volleyball

* WolfPack women's volleyball player Iuliia Pakhomenko was named the Canada West and CIS player of the year in 2016. She was also a Canada West finalist for the BLG Award, which goes to the outstanding university athlete in Canada. * WolfPack women's volleyball players outside hitter Olga Savenchuk (Donetsk, Ukraine) was named to the 2019 Canada West first all-star team and middle Hayley McNaught (Woking, AB) was named to the 2019 Canada West rookie all-star teams.

Club teams

Club sports include baseball, cheerleading, curling, and rodeo.

Baseball

* The WolfPack baseball team won the Canadian College Baseball Conference championship in 2005, 2007 and 2009. The baseball team competes in th
Canadian College Baseball Conference

Cheerleading

* The Wolfpack Cheerleading teams both placed first at the annual 2019 True North Cheerleading competition held in Edmonton, Alberta. Team Black also received a Full Bid and Team Orange received an At-large Bid to th
2020 University World Cup Cheerleading Championships
to be held at the

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. Wolfpack cheerleading is a member of th
BC Cheerleading Association
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Accomplishments

References

External links

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