Atlantic University Sport

{{Use mdy dates|date=December 2024}}{{Infobox sports league

| name = Atlantic University Sport
Sport universitaire de l'Atlantique

| association = U Sports

| title =

| logo = 250px

| logo_size = 175

| founded = {{Start date and age|1974}}

| division = 1

| teams = 11 (+ 1 football-only associate)

| headquarters = Halifax, Nova Scotia

| commissioner = Phil Currie

| website = {{URL|http://atlanticuniversitysport.com}}

}}

Atlantic University Sport (AUS; {{langx|fr|Sport universitaire de l'Atlantique}}) 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 the Réseau du sport étudiant du Québec (RSEQ).

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 =

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!Institution

!Nickname

!Location

!Founded

!Joined

!Type

!Enrollment{{cite web|url=http://www.atlanticuniversities.ca/Download.aspx?serverfn=./files/drm/9cb318ea-60f6-41d8-8913-4ff9e09b1852.pdf&downloadfn=Full%20+%20Part-time%202009.pdf&contenttype= |title=Full-time plus Part-time Enrollment |date=2009-10-14 |publisher=Association of Atlantic Universities |access-date=2009-12-04 }}{{dead link|date=October 2016 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}

!Endowment

Acadia University

| Axemen/Axewomen

| Wolfville, Nova Scotia

| 1838

| 1974

| Public

| 3,621

| $40M

Cape Breton University

| Capers

| Sydney, Nova Scotia

| 1951

| 1982

| Public

| 3,107

| $6.1M

Dalhousie University

| Tigers

| Halifax, Nova Scotia

| 1818

| 1974

| Public

| 15,970

| $337.7M

Memorial University of Newfoundland

| Sea-Hawks

| St. John's, Newfoundland

| 1925

| 1974

| Public

| 18,172

| $93M

Mount Allison University

| Mounties

| Sackville, New Brunswick

| 1839

| 1974

| Public

| 2,486

| $215.1M

Université de Moncton

| Aigles Bleus/Aigles Bleues

| Moncton, New Brunswick

| 1864

| 1974

| Public

| 6,219

| ---

University of New Brunswick

| Reds

| Fredericton, New Brunswick

| 1785

| 1974

| Public

| 10,587

| ---

University of Prince Edward Island

| Panthers

| Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island

| 1969

| 1974

| Public

| 4,435

| ---

Saint Mary's University

| Huskies

| Halifax, Nova Scotia

| 1802

| 1974

| Public

| 7,281

| $16.9M

St. Francis Xavier University

| X-Men/X-Women

| Antigonish, Nova Scotia

| 1853

| 1974

| Public

| 4,875

| $59.4M

St. Thomas University

| Tommies

| Fredericton, New Brunswick

| 1910

| 1974

| Public

| 2,579

| ---

= 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).

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!Institution

!Nickname

!Location

!Founded

!Joined

!Type

!Enrollment

!Endowment

!Sport

!Primary league

Bishop's University

| Gaiters

| Sherbrooke, Quebec

| 1843

| 2017

| Public

| 2,756

| $32.5M

| Football

| RSEQ

= Member maps =

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| {{Location map+ |Canada Nova Scotia |caption=Locations of the Nova Scotia and PEI based Atlantic University Sport member institutions |places=

{{Location map~ |Canada Nova Scotia |lat=45.088573 |long=-64.369005 |label=Acadia |position=left}}

{{Location map~ |Canada Nova Scotia |lat=46.170841 |long=-60.096072 |label=Cape Breton |position=bottom}}

{{Location map~ |Canada Nova Scotia |lat=44.636581 |long=-63.593844 |label=Dalhousie |mark=Red steel pog.png |position=left}}

{{Location map~ |Canada Nova Scotia |lat=44.63162 |long=-63.584385 |label=Saint Mary's |mark=Red steel pog.png |position=right}}

{{Location map~ |Canada Nova Scotia |lat=45.617982 |long=-61.996908 |label=St. FX |position=bottom}}

{{Location map~ |Canada Nova Scotia |lat=46.257492 |long=-63.139696 |label=UPEI |position=bottom}}

}}

| {{Location map+ |Canada New Brunswick |caption=Locations of the New Brunswick based Atlantic University Sport member institutions |places=

{{location map~ |Canada New Brunswick |lat=45.898318 |long=-64.375289 |label= Mount Allison |position=bottom}}

{{Location map~ |Canada New Brunswick |lat=46.105016 |long=-64.784273 |label=Moncton |position=left}}

{{location map~ |Canada New Brunswick |lat=45.945349 |long=-66.64457 |label= UNB |mark=Red-green pog.svg |position=right}}

{{Location map~ |Canada New Brunswick |lat=45.94402 |long=-66.64841 |label=St. Thomas |mark=Red-green pog.svg |position=left}}

}}

| {{Location map+ |Canada Newfoundland |caption=Locations of the Newfoundland based Atlantic University Sport member institution |places=

{{location map~ |Canada Newfoundland|lat=47.574168 |long=-52.737118 |label= Memorial |position=bottom}}

}}

== Facilities ==

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bgcolor="#ffcbcb" \| colspan="9" align="center" \| Facilities
bgcolor="#efefef" !Institution!!Football Field!!Seated Capacity!!Basketball/Volleyball Gym!!Seated Capacity!!Hockey Arena!!Seated Capacity!!Soccer Stadium!!Seated Capacity
align="center" \|align="left"\| Acadia	Raymond Field	3,000	War Memorial Gymnasium	1,800	Andrew H. McCain Arena	2,300	Raymond Field	3,000
align="center" \|align="left"\| Bishop's	Coulter Field	2,200	colspan=6 align=center \| Football-only member
align="center" \|align="left"\| Cape Breton	rowspan=3 align=center colspan=2 \| Non-football school	Sullivan Field House	2,200	colspan=2 \| Non-hockey school	Ness Timmons Soccer Field	2,000
align="center" \|align="left"\| Dalhousie	Sexton Memorial Gymnasium	500	Halifax Forum	5,796	F.B. Wickfire Memorial Field	2,000
align="center" \|align="left"\| Memorial	Memorial University Fieldhouse	1,400	colspan=2 \| Non-hockey school	King George V Park	6,400{{Cite web\|url=https://destinationstjohns.com/business/king-george-v-park/\|title = King George V Park}}
align="center" \|align="left"\| Mount Allison	MacAulay Field	2,500	McCormack Gymnasium	800	Tantramar Regional Veteran's Civic Centre	750	MacAulay Field	2,500
align="center" \|align="left"\| Moncton	rowspan=3 align=center colspan=2 \|Non-football school	Gymnasium J.-Louis-Levesque (Women’s Volleyball only)	N/A	Aréna J.-Louis-Levesque	2,500	Croix-Bleue Medavie Stadium	8,300
align="center" \|align="left"\| UNB	Richard J. Currie Center	1,400	Aitken Centre	3,685	Chapman Field	1,500
align="center" \|align="left"\| UPEI	Chi-Wan Young Sports Centre	2,000	MacLauchlan Arena	1,300	UPEI Field Turf	3,000
align="center" \|align="left"\| Saint Mary's	Huskies Stadium	4,000*	The Tower	1,200	The Dauphinee Centre	1,200	Huskies Stadium	2,000{{Cite web\|url=https://smu.ca/campus-life/smufit-about-huskies-stadium.html\|title=About the Facility}}
align="center" \|align="left"\| St. F.X.	Oland Stadium	4,000	Oland Centre Gymnasium	2,500	KMC	1,501	Oland Stadium	4,000
align="center" \|align="left"\| St. Thomas	colspan=2 align=center \|Non-football school	colspan=2 \| Non-basketball school	Grant • Harvey Centre (Women’s only)	1,500	colspan=2 \| Non-soccer school

(Data mined from the U Sports homepage's member directory[http://www.universitysport.ca/e/members/directory_complete_print.cfm U Sports directory] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090727174339/http://www.universitysport.ca/e/members/directory_complete_print.cfm |date=July 27, 2009 }} and WorldStadiums.com.[http://www.worldstadiums.com/north_america/countries/canada.shtml World Stadiums.com]