- Ontario University Athletics
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Ontario University Athletics
(OUA)
Association CIS Members 19 Headquarters Hamilton, Ontario Website Official website Ontario University Athletics (OUA) is a regional membership association for Canadian universities which assists in co-ordinating competition between their university level athletic programs and providing contact information, schedules, results, and releases about those programs and events to the public and the media. This is similar to what would be called a college athletic conference in the United States. OUA, which covers Ontario, is one of four such bodies that are members of the country's governing body for university athletics, Canadian Interuniversity Sport (CIS). The other three regional associations coordinating university-level sports in Canada are Atlantic University Sport (AUS), the Canada West Universities Athletic Association (CWUAA), and the Quebec Student Sports Federation (QSSF).
OUA came into being in 1997 with the merger of the Ontario Universities Athletics Association and the Ontario Women's Intercollegiate Athletics Association.
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Member Universities
Member Universities of the OUA are:
Institution Team City Province Founded Affiliation Enrollment Endowment Division Carleton University Ravens Ottawa ON 1942 Public 20,901 $230M East University of Ottawa Gee-Gees Ottawa ON 1848 Public 35,548 $128.4M East University of Toronto Varsity Blues Toronto ON 1827 Public 73,185 $1.823B East Ryerson University Rams Toronto ON 1948 Public 32,670 --- East Queen's University Golden Gaels Kingston ON 1841 Public 20,566 $657M East York University Lions Toronto ON 1959 Public 42,400 $306M East Laurentian University Voyageurs Sudbury ON 1960 Public 7758 $143M East Royal Military College of Canada Paladins Kingston ON 1876 Public 1268 --- East Trent University Excalibur Peterborough ON 1964 Public 7160 $21.2M East Nipissing University Lakers North Bay ON 1909 Public 6300 --- East University of Ontario Institute of Technology Ridgebacks Oshawa ON 2003 Public 5000 --- East University of Western Ontario Mustangs London ON 1878 Public 30,000 $266.6M West University of Windsor Lancers Windsor ON 1857 Public 13,496 $32.5M West McMaster University Marauders Hamilton ON 1887 Public 25,688 $498.5M West University of Guelph Gryphons Guelph ON 1964 Public 19,408 $164.2M West University of Waterloo Warriors Waterloo ON 1957 Public 27,978 $172M West Wilfrid Laurier University Golden Hawks Waterloo ON 1911 Public 12,394 --- West Brock University Badgers St. Catharines ON 1964 Public 17,000
[1]--- West Lakehead University Thunderwolves Thunder Bay ON 1946 Public 8050 $32.1M West Sports
Member Universities of the OUA compete in a variety of sports at both the varsity and club levels, including badminton, baseball, basketball, Cross Country, curling, fencing, field hockey, figure skating, Canadian football, golf, ice hockey, Nordic skiing, rowing, lacrosse, rugby, soccer, squash, swimming, tennis, track and field, volleyball, water polo and wrestling.
The OUA awards the Queen's Cup to its men's ice hockey champion team and the Yates Cup to its men's football champion teams. Winners of OUA championships generally go on to compete in the national CIS competition, against the champions of the other three conferences.
Facilities
Canadian athletic facilities are often listed by their "maximum capacity", which is often an estimate of their largest recorded crowd in the facility. These maximum capacities can and often do include standing room patrons and attendees seated on grass surrounding a playing field. Seated Capacity is the actual number of permanent seats, be they grandstands or permanently in use bleachers. This is why you will sometimes see larger capacities listed for these sites when searching for them on line. When capacity numbers have mismatched on source sites, unless the larger capacity could be confirmed as a seated capacity, the smaller capacity number has been listed here.
Please update with verified "seated capacities" only when the institutions release more accurate official seated capacities.
Facilities Institution Football
StadiumSeated
CapacityBasketball
ArenaSeated
CapacityHockey
ArenaSeated
CapacitySoccer
StadiumSeated
CapacityCarleton No Football -- Raven's Nest 1500 Ice House 500 Keith Harris Stadium 2500 Ottawa Frank Clair Stadium 26,559 Montpetit Hall 1000 Sports Complex Arena 850 Sports Complex Field-W 750 Toronto Varsity Centre 5000 Sports Gym 800 Varsity Arena 4100 Varsity Centre 5000 Ryerson No Football -- Kerr Hall Gymnasium 800 George Bell Arena 800 Lamport Stadium 9600 Queen's Richardson Memorial Stadium 10,258* Bartlett Gymnasium 1785 Kingston Memorial Centre -- yes York York Stadium 2500 Tait McKenzie Centre 950 Canlan Ice Sports-York 1700 York Stadium 2500 Laurentian No Football -- Ben F. Avery Gymnasium 1200 No Hockey -- Laurentian University Soccer Field 500 RMC No Football -- Kingston Military Community Sports Centre 4000 Constantaine Arena 1500 Navy Bay Soccer and Rugby Fields 2500 Trent No Football -- No Basketball -- No Hockey -- Trent University Main Playing Field 1000 Nipissing No Football -- No Basketball -- Memorial Gardens 4025 Nipissing University soccer pitch 200 UOIT No Football -- No Basketball -- UOIT Campus Ice Centre 800 No Soccer Western TD Waterhouse Stadium 8000 Alumni Hall 2400 John Labatt Centre 9000 yes Windsor University of Windsor Stadium 2000 St. Denis Centre 2500 Windsor Arena-M
South Windsor Arena-W4600
1000yes McMaster Ronald V. Joyce Stadium 6000 Burridge Gymnasium 2800 No Hockey -- yes Guelph Alumni Stadium 5100 W.F. Mitchell Athletics Centre 2200 Gryphon Centre Arena 1400 yes Waterloo Warrior Field 1100* Physical Activities Complex 4500 Columbia Ice Field 1000 yes Laurier University Stadium 6500 Athletic Complex 2500 Waterloo Recreation Complex 3400 Wilfrid Laurier Alumni Field Brock No Football -- Bob Davis Gymnasium 2400 Seymour-Hannah Sports & Entertainment Centre 1400 yes Lakehead No Football -- C.J. Sanders Fieldhouse 2000 Fort William Gardens 3710 No Soccer Queen's has plans to relocate Richardson Stadium and reduce the permanent seating to 8000[1].
The city of Ottawa is currently negotiating with Jeff Hunt on refurbishing Frank Clair Stadium.
(*Waterloo's new Warrior Field is often listed with a capacity of 5000, but that includes viewers standing and sitting on the grass. The seated capacity is 1100.)
(Data mined from the CIS homepage's member directory[2] and WorldStadiums.com[3]. The members directory numbers seem to be ballpark figures in some cases.)References
External links
Categories:- Canadian Interuniversity Sport
- College athletics conferences in Canada
- Canadian Interuniversity Sport basketball
- Canadian Interuniversity Sport football
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