Warriors win OUA field hockey Championship after 21 year drought [Video]

For the first time since 2003, the University of Waterloo women’s field hockey team is provincial field hockey champions again.

“We were like, ‘we made it here, we’re here. We’re going to get what we came for,'” Marielle Fernback, goalkeeper Waterloo Warriors.

The University of Waterloo entered the Ontario University Athletics provincial round robin as the lowest ranked team of the four competing. T

The Warriors managed to knock off longtime dominant teams like the University of Toronto and Guelph. Maria Haig, the Warriors head coach, said her team has spent a long time improving to earn the fourth provincial gold medal in the program’s history.

“If you’ve been watching, it feels like it’s been a long time coming, but it’s been a slow but measured crawl to the top,” Haig said.

In the OUA gold medal game, Waterloo shutout Guelph 2-0 to earn their spot in the nationals. Fernback …