"The Mustangs Report" The Official Podcast of the Western Mustangs

On this episode, we catch up with the inaugural winners of the Western Mustangs Rookie of the Year awards, Zea Wetzlaugk (Swimming) & Kohl Kletke (Men's Rugby).

Both had outstanding seasons in 2024-25 and were recognized during the 2025 Mustangs Awards.

Zea won a silver medal (50 Free) & bronze medal (100 Free) while also taking home silver medals with the Women's 4x100 Free Relay & Women's 4x50 Free Relay teams at the OUA Championship. She was also named OUA Women's Rookie of the Year. She also won bronze at the U SPORTS Championship in the Women's 50M Free.

Kole led the OUA with 90 points, while starting in all six of Western's regular season games. He scored eight tries, kicked 22 converts, and two penalty goals in his rookie year. He was given OUA Rookie of the Year honours at the year end sport awards.

On this episode, we continue our fall recap by recognizing the 2024 Baggataway Cup Champion Men's Lacrosse team.

It's the second consecutive year the Mustangs have won the championship. We talk with tournament MVP Jacob Hickey and Head Coach Chris Standish to recap the tournament and the season for the team.

On this episode, we continue our fall recap by recognizing the 2024 OUA Champion Men's Tennis team.

We catch up with OUA MVP, OUA Rookie of the Year & OUA All-Star Liam Drover-Mattinen to talk about his rookie season with the Mustangs which ended with Western capturing their 24th provincial title in program history. CLICK HERE for a full recap.

On this episode, we start the third season of the podcast celebrating the fall season of the Women's Cross Country team who won both the OUA & U SPORTS Championships. 

We talk with Ashley Maguire who was a 1st team OUA All-Star & 1st Team All-Canadian for her performances at both events along with OUA & U SPORTS Women's Team Coach of the Year Guy Schultz about the season that was and why the team was so successful.

On this episode, we continue our Mustangs Season of Celebration with our 2023 Mustangs Female Athlete of the Year Shona Branton.

In only her second season with the Mustangs Branton had an outstanding year. She came into the OUA Championship looking to make an impact. She finished top of the podium in both the 50m & 100m Breaststroke, she also swam in the 4x50 & 4x100m relays where Western took silver medals, she went to the U SPORTS Championship and picked up a silver medal in the 50m Breaststroke & gold in the 100m Breaststroke.

On this episode, we continue our Mustangs Season of Celebration with our 2023 Mustangs Male Athlete of the Year Treye Trotman.

Trotman went undefeated 24-0 this season and took home six gold medals in six tournaments, outscoring his opponents 156-3 while also winning OUA's and U SPORTS Championships. Trotman was awarded OUA Rookie of the Year, OUA Outstanding Wrestler and U SPORTS Rookie of the Year, alongside 1st Team All-Star and 1st Team All-Canadian honours.

On this episode we continue our Mustangs Season of Celebration by checking in with Daniel Valente Jr. of the Mustangs Football team.

Valente Jr. won the 2023 Dr. Claude Brown Memorial Trophy after an incredible Mustangs career in which he won the Vanier Cup twice, four Yates Cups, a multi time OUA All-Star & U SPORTS All-Canadian and this season was named the OUA's Most Outstanding Standup Defensive Player.

On this episode we continue our Mustangs Season of Celebration by checking in with our major award winners. Karissa Riley of our Women's Rowing team has had one of the most successful seasons in recent memory and captured four different awards at the Mustangs Awards Celebration (Women's Rowing MVP, G. Howard Ferguson Award, Purple Blanket & F.W.P. Jones Trophy).

The humble leader of the Women's Rowing program talks about her journey as a Mustang and what it meant to finish her career with this kind of recognition.

On this episode we are checking in with the teams that took home some hardware from their championship seasons. We had 4 teams win their OUA Championships (Women's Rowing, Men's Tennis, Women's Tennis & Football), Rylie Grogan of the Women's Golf team won the individual gold medal and the Mustangs Ringette team won the University Challenge Cup, a national championship. We caught up with representatives of each team for a few minutes.

The 2022-23 athletic season is well underway and we take a few minutes to check in with a trio of guests. First we get the first edition of "The Directors Report" with Mustangs Director of Sports & Recreation Christine Stapleton to talk about what it has taken to get back to competition this fall, upgrades to our facilities, and how impressed she has been with our teams so far this year.

We check in with Mustangs Football Head Coach Greg Marshall as the defending Vanier Cup Champions have another impressive season underway.

We finish out the episode with Field Hockey Head Coach Jeff Pacheco to discuss his team, and their motivation this year and to learn a bit more about the game he has spent 20+ years leading here at Western.