Atlantic University Sport
Atlantic University Sport (AUS) is a regional membership association for universities in Atlantic Canada 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. The AUS, which covers Canada east of the province of Quebec, is one of four such bodies that are members of the country's governing body for university athletics, U Sports. The other three regional associations coordinating university-level sports in Canada are Ontario University Athletics (OUA), the Canada West Universities Athletic Association (CW), and Quebec Student Sport Federation (known by its French initialism of RSEQ).
| Atlantic University Sport Sport universitaire de l'Atlantique | |
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| AUS / SUA | |
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| Established | 1974 |
| Association | U Sports |
| Division | 1 |
| Members | 11 (+ 1 football-only associate) |
| Headquarters | Halifax, Nova Scotia |
| Commissioner | Mr. Phil Currie |
| Website | http://www.atlanticuniversitysport.com |
History
The Atlantic Universities Athletics Association was founded in 1974, with the merging of the Atlantic Intercollegiate Athletic Association and the Atlantic Women's Intercollegiate Athletic Association. Prior to the acceptance of Memorial University of Newfoundland, the AIAA, which dates back to the late 19th century, was known as the Maritime Intercollegiate Athletic Association. The AUAA changed its name to Atlantic University Sport (AUS) in 1999.
Member schools
Full members
Single-sport members
The AUS accepted its first ever single-sport member at the start of the 2017–18 school year, when the Bishop's Gaiters football team transferred from the Réseau du sport étudiant du Québec (RSEQ).
| Institution | Nickname | Location | Founded | Type | Enrollment[1] | Endowment | Joined | Sport | Primary league |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bishop's University | Gaiters | Sherbrooke, Quebec | 1843 | Public | 2,756 | $32.5M | 2017 | Football | RSEQ |
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 Stadium | Seated Capacity | Basketball/Volleyball Gym | Seated Capacity | Hockey Arena | Seated Capacity | Soccer Stadium | Seated Capacity |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Acadia | Raymond Field | 3,000 | War Memorial Gymnasium | 1,800 | Andrew H. McCain Arena | 2,300 | Raymond Field | 3,000 |
| Bishop's | Coulter Field | 2,200 | Football-only member | |||||
| Cape Breton | No Football | -- | Sullivan Field House | 2,200 | No Ice Hockey | -- | Canada Games Complex | 2,000 |
| Dalhousie | No Football | -- | Sexton Memorial Gymnasium | 500 | Halifax Forum | 5,600 | F.B. Wickfire Memorial Field | 2,000 |
| Memorial | No Football | -- | Memorial University Fieldhouse | 1,400 | No Ice Hockey | -- | King George V Park | 10,000 |
| Mount Allison | MacAulay Field | 2,500 | McCormack Gymnasium | 800 | Tantramar Regional Veteran's Civic Centre | 750 | MacAulay Field | 2,500 |
| Moncton | No Football | -- | No Basketball | -- | Aréna J.-Louis-Levesque | 2,500 | Croix-Bleue Medavie Stadium | 10,000 |
| UNB | No Football | -- | Richard J. Currie Center | 1,400 | Aitken Centre | 3,685 | Chapman Field | 1,500 |
| UPEI | No Football | -- | Chi-Wan Young Sports Centre | 2,000 | MacLauchlan Arena | 1,300 | UPEI Field Turf | 3,000 |
| Saint Mary's | Huskies Stadium | 4,000* | The Tower | 1,200 | The Dauphinee Centre | 1,200 | Huskies Stadium | 2,000[2] |
| St. F.X. | Oland Stadium | 4,000 | Oland Centre Gymnasium | 2,500 | KMC | 1,501 | Oland Stadium | 4,000 |
| St. Thomas | No Football | -- | No Basketball | -- | Grant • Harvey Centre | 1,500 | No Soccer | -- |
(Data mined from the U Sports homepage's member directory[3] and WorldStadiums.com.[4]
References
- "Full-time plus Part-time Enrollment". Association of Atlantic Universities. 2009-10-14. Retrieved 2009-12-04.
- https://smu.ca/campus-life/smufit-about-huskies-stadium.html
- U Sports directory Archived July 27, 2009, at the Wayback Machine
- World Stadiums.com