Atlantic University Sport


Atlantic University Sport 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, the Canada West Universities Athletic Association, and Quebec Student Sport Federation.

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 in 1999.

Member schools

Full members

InstitutionNicknameLocationFoundedTypeEnrollmentEndowmentJoined
Acadia UniversityAxemen/AxewomenWolfville, Nova Scotia1838Public3,621$40M1974
Cape Breton UniversityCapersSydney, Nova Scotia1951Public3,107$6.1M1982
Dalhousie UniversityTigersHalifax, Nova Scotia1818Public15,970$337.7M1974
Memorial University of NewfoundlandSea-HawksSt. John's, Newfoundland1925Public18,172$93M1974
Mount Allison UniversityMountiesSackville, New Brunswick1839Public2,486$82.8M1974
Université de MonctonAigles Bleus/Aigles BleuesMoncton, New Brunswick1864Public6,219---????
University of New BrunswickRedsFredericton, New Brunswick1785Public10,587---1974
University of Prince Edward IslandPanthersCharlottetown, Prince Edward Island1969Public4,435---1974
Saint Mary's UniversityHuskiesHalifax, Nova Scotia1802Public7,281$16.9M1974
St. Francis Xavier UniversityX-Men/X-WomenAntigonish, Nova Scotia1853Public4,875$59.4M1974
St. Thomas UniversityTommiesFredericton, New Brunswick1910Public2,579---1974

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.
InstitutionNicknameLocationFoundedTypeEnrollmentEndowmentJoinedSportPrimary league
Bishop's UniversityGaitersSherbrooke, Quebec1843Public2,756$32.5M2017FootballRSEQ

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.

(Data mined from the U Sports homepage's member directory and WorldStadiums.com.