Atlantic University Sport

Atlantic University Sport Sport universitaire de l'Atlantique (AUS / SUA)
Established	1974
Association	CIS
Division	1
Members	11
Headquarters	Halifax Regional Municipality, Nova Scotia
Website	http://www.atlanticuniversitysport.com

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, Canadian Interuniversity Sport (CIS). The other three regional associations coordinating university-level sports in Canada are Ontario University Athletics (OUA), the Canada West Universities Athletic Association (CWUAA), and Quebec Student Sport Federation (QSSF).

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

Institution	Nickname	Location	Founded	Type	Enrollment[1]	Endowment	Joined
Acadia University	Axemen/Axewomen	Wolfville, Nova Scotia	1838	Public	3,621	$40M	1974
Cape Breton University	Capers	Sydney, Nova Scotia	1951	Public	3,107	$6.1M	1982
Dalhousie University	Tigers	Halifax, Nova Scotia	1818	Public	15,970	$337.7M	1974
Memorial University of Newfoundland	Sea-Hawks	St. John's, Newfoundland	1925	Public	18,172	$56M	????
Mount Allison University	Mounties	Sackville, New Brunswick	1839	Public	2,486	$82.8M	1974
Université de Moncton	Aigles Bleus/Aigles Bleues	Moncton, New Brunswick	1864	Public	6,219	---	????
University of New Brunswick	Varsity Reds	Fredericton, New Brunswick	1785	Public	10,587	---	1974
University of Prince Edward Island	Panthers	Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island	1969	Public	4,435	---	1974
Saint Mary's University	Huskies	Halifax, Nova Scotia	1802	Public	7,281	$16.9M	1974
St. Francis Xavier University	X-Men/X-Women	Antigonish, Nova Scotia	1853	Public	4,875	$59.4M	1974
St. Thomas University	Tommies	Fredericton, New Brunswick	1910	Public	2,579	---	1974

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 Arena	Seated Capacity	Hockey Arena(s)	Seated Capacity	Soccer Stadium	Seated Capacity
Acadia	Raymond Field	3000	War Memorial Gymnasium	1800	Acadia Arena	2300	Raymond Field	3000
Cape Breton	No Football	--	Sullivan Field House	2200	No Ice Hockey	--	Canada Games Complex	2000
Dalhousie	No Football	--	Sexton Memorial Gymnasium	500	Halifax Forum	5600	F.B. Wickfire Memorial Field	2000
Memorial	No Football	--	Memorial University Fieldhouse	1400	No Ice Hockey	--	King George V Park	10,000
Mount Allison	MacAulay Field	2500	McCormack Gymnasium	800	Tantramar Regional Veteran’s Civic Centre	750	MacAulay Field	2500
Moncton	No Football	--	No Basketball	--	Aréna J.-Louis-Levesque	2500	Moncton Stadium	10000
UNB	No Football	--	Richard J. CURRIE CENTER	1400	Aitken Centre	3685	Chapman Field	1500
UPEI	No Football	--	Chi-Wan Young Sports Centre	2000	MacLauchlan Arena	1300	UPEI Field Turf	3000
Saint Mary's	Huskies Stadium	4000*	The Tower	1200	Alumni Winter Arena/ Halifax Forum	1200/ 5600	Huskies Stadium	4000*
St. F.X.	Oland Stadium	4000	Oland Centre Gymnasium	2500	KMC	1501	Oland Stadium	4000
St. Thomas	No Football	--	No Basketball	--	Grant • Harvey Centre	1500	No Soccer	--

Moncton has built a new 10,000-seat on-campus stadium designed in part to host football. It is unclear if the University will be adding the sport.

(*Saint Mary's Huskies Stadium has a listed capacity of 9000, but the accuracy of this as a fixed seated capacity is questionable. Articles have suggested that permanent seating is only 4000,^[2] but note that temporary seating can get the capacity up to 9-11,000. Additionally, attendees often sit on the grass and the grassy areas are likely included in this official capacity of 9000. Seated capacity would only refer to the grandstands and any permanent seats or bleachers.)

(Data mined from the CIS homepage's member directory^[3] and WorldStadiums.com.^[4] The members directory numbers seem to be ballpark figures in some cases.)

References

1. "Full-time plus Part-time Enrollment" (PDF). Association of Atlantic Universities. 2009-10-14. Retrieved 2009-12-04.
2. Huskies stadium capacity
3. CIS directory
4. World Stadiums.com

External links

• Official website