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Encyclopedia > Ontario Universities Athletic Association

Ontario University Athletics is the governing body of Ontario universities who compete in the a variety of varsity sports. The OUA came into being in 1997 with the merger of the Ontario Universities Athletics Association and the Ontario Women's Intercollegiate Athletics Association.


The OUA is one of the CIS conferences, along with Atlantic University Sport, Canada West Universities Athletic Association, and the Quebec Student Sports Federation. CIS Logo Canadian Interuniversity Sport (CIS) is the national governing body of university sport in Canada. ... Canadian Interuniversity Sport (CIS) is the national governing body of university sport in Canada. ... The Western Intercollegiate Athletic Association was founded in 1920, but regular competition between schools at the time were often unfeasible due to the high costs of travel and existing rivalries with American colleges. ... The Quebec Student Sports Federation is not only the governing body for universitiy athletics in Quebec, but also that of CEGEPs and high schools as well. ...


Member Universities

Member Universities of the OUA are:

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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, football, golf, ice hockey, nordic skiing, rowing, rugby, soccer, squash, swimming, tennis, track and field, volleyball, water polo and wrestling. In the United States and Canada, varsity sports teams are the principal athletic teams representing a college, university, or high school or other secondary school. ... The Danish Olympic badminton player Peter Gade Badminton is a racquet sport played by either two opposing players (singles) or two opposing pairs (doubles). ... A view of the playing field at Busch Stadium II St. ... Sara Giauro shoots a three-point shot, FIBA Europe Cup for Women Finals 2005. ... The Minnesota State Highschool Cross Country Meet A cross country race in Seaside, Oregon. ... Curling is a precision team sport similar to bowls or bocce, played on a rectangular sheet of prepared ice by two teams of four players each, using heavy polished granite stones which they slide down the ice towards a target area called the house. ... In the broadest possible sense, fencing is the art and science of armed combat involving cutting, stabbing, or bludgeoning weapons directly manipulated by hand, rather than shot or thrown (in other words, swords, knives, pikes, bayonets, batons, clubs, and so on). ... A game of field hockey in progress Field hockey is a popular sport for men and women in many countries around the world. ... Figure skating is an ice skating sporting event where individuals, mixed couples, or groups perform spins, jumps, and other moves on the ice, often to music. ... Look up Football in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Greg Norman on the 18th tee at St Andrews. ... Ice hockey, known simply as hockey in areas where it is more common than field hockey, is a team sport played on ice. ... Nordic skiing is a winter sport that encompasses all types of skiing where the heel of the boot cannot be fixed to the ski. ... A coxless pair which is a sweep-oar boat. ... A BCRFC match at Boston College Rugby football, often just referred to as rugby, refers to sports descended from a common form of football developed at Rugby School in England. ... Football is a ball game played between two teams of eleven players, each attempting to win by scoring more goals than their opponent. ... Squash racquet and ball Players in a glass-backed squash court International Squash Singles Court, as specified by the World Squash Federation // Squash is an indoor racquet sport which was formerly called Squash rackets, a reference to the squashable soft ball used in the game (compared with the harder ball... Swimming is a technique that humans and animals use to move through water using only movements of the body, often for exercise, fun and competition. ... A tennis net Tennis is a game played between either two players (singles) or two teams of two players (doubles). Players use a stringed racquet to strike a hollow rubber ball covered with felt over a net into the opponents court. ... Athletics, also known as track and field or track and field athletics, is a collection of sport events. ... Volleyball is an Olympic sport in which two teams separated by a high net use their hands, arms, or (rarely) other parts of their bodies to hit a ball back and forth over the net. ... Water polo is a team water sport, which can be best described as a combination of swimming, football (soccer), basketball, ice hockey, rugby and wrestling. ... This article is about all wrestling. ...


Winners of OUA championships generally go on to compete in the national CIS competition, against the champions of the other three conferences.


External links

  • Ontario University Athletics homepage
  • CIS Webpage


 

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