The McCaw Cup (formerly the WIAU ice hockey trophy and the Dr. Judy McCaw Trophy ) is a trophy awarded annually to the provincial champion in collegiate women's ice hockey of the Ontario University Athletics conference of U Sports . Originally named the WIAU ice hockey trophy , it was rededicated by the University of Guelph in 1972 to Dr. Judy McCaw, an Anglo-Québécois veterinarian and professor at the university. The University of Guelph also colloquially refers to the cup as Judy .
14-881: The McCaw Cup differs from its counterpart in men's collegiate hockey, the Queen's Cup , as it features teams only from Ontario universities. Unlike the women's conferences which are separated into the OUA in Ontario and the RSEQ in Québec , all three men's collegiate ice hockey teams in Québec compete in the OUA for the Queen's Cup. From 1922-1971, the trophy was known as the Women's Intercollegiate Athletic Union (WIAU) Ice Hockey Trophy. Until 1998 it
28-596: The Stanley Cup . The QUAA (now named the Réseau du sport étudiant du Québec , RSEQ ) ceased to operate a university hockey league after the 1986–87 season. The conference's three remaining teams at that point ( McGill Redmen , UQTR Patriotes , and Concordia Stingers ) joined, and remain, in the OUA conference. One of the conditions of the merger was the Queen's Cup, representing the OUA champion, must be challenged for at an OUA institution – as such, when
42-620: The CIHU, now known as the OUA conference. The original Cup was retired in 2000 to the Hockey Hall of Fame . The 2021 championship was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Canada . Bolded are Queen's Cup champions, italicized are runner-up, score is championship game only. Bolded are Queen's Cup champions. Source: McGill University, OUA The Toronto Varsity Blues have won
56-482: The OUA's current format, the 4 best teams in each division play in best of 5 quarter-final and semi-final matchups to determine who will play in the single elimination final known as the McCaw Cup Championship. Historically, a 4 team playoff has been used to determine the champion. Source: Source: Source: The Toronto Varsity Blues have won the most championships with 40, who were also
70-775: The OUA-East champion hosts such a game and that school is based in Quebec, the game is hosted by the OUA-West team, while the OUA-East team has 'home' standing (last change). For the 1902–03 season, McGill University , Queen's University and the University of Toronto founded the Canadian Intercollegiate Hockey Union. The Queen's Cup, emblematic of the CIHU championship was donated by Queen's University of Kingston, Ontario . The Queen's Cup
84-529: The exception of the 2021 season, which was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic . Source: Queen%27s Cup (ice hockey) The Queen's Cup is a trophy awarded annually to the champion in men's ice hockey of the Ontario University Athletics conference of U Sports . It has been awarded since 1903 to the champion between Ontario and Quebec universities. It is the second-oldest ice hockey trophy still being awarded, after
98-602: The inaugural recipients of the cup in 1922. The Queen's Gaels were the second team to win the cup four years later in 1926, and it was not until the Guelph Gryphons won the cup 39 years later in 1967 that a team other than the Blues or the Gaels had won. The cup was not awarded in 1936-1948, as well as from 1951-1960 after several teams had withdrawn from the conference. The cup has been continually awarded since 1961, with
112-405: The merger of the men's and women's leagues to the OUA in 1998. Following the establishment of a national championship in 1998, the recipient of the cup would go on to represent the conference at the national tournament. Currently, both the champion and the runner-up are granted berths at the U Sports national championship , with the recipient of the cup given the higher seed at the tournament. In
126-701: The most OUA championships with 41, including a record 11 consecutively between the 1914-15 to 1928-29 seasons. Montreal Carabins The Montréal Carabins ( French : Carabins de Montréal ) are the men's and women's athletic teams that represent the Université de Montréal in Montreal , Quebec , Canada. Teams play at the CEPSUM Stadium and at l'aréna du CEPSUM , located at the Université de Montréal campus. The Carabins cheerleading team
140-694: The team ranked in second place in the Québécois conference behind the McGill Martlets . In the 2011 playoffs, the Carabins eliminated the Concordia Stingers but the Carabins are in turn to eliminate in finale by McGill. This elimination did not qualify them for the CIS championships at Waterloo, Ontario . Since their inaugural season in 2012, the Carabins men's rugby program competes at
154-401: Was created in 2002 at the same time as the rebirth of the Carabins football team. The team has hosted Super Bowl parties in order to finance its activities. The Carabins football program was originally in operation from 1966 to 1971, but was cut following a philosophical change with intercollegiate athletics among Quebec universities at the time. As that perception changed, the football team
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#1732790702770168-483: Was not presented during the war years of 1915–16, 1916–17, 1917–18, 1918–19, 1940–41, 1941–42, 1942–43, 1943–44, nor 1944–45. The first winner other than the founders was the Université de Montréal in 1949. By the 1960s, other universities, including Ontario Agricultural College (Guelph), McMaster, Waterloo and Western were granted membership and became eligible to win the Cup. Other universities have since joined
182-505: Was reinstated in 2002 and has been in continuous operation since. The team has won five Dunsmore Cup conference championships (2014, 2015, 2019, 2021 and 2023) and two Vanier Cups national championship ( 2014 , 2023 ). The 2009-10 season was their inaugural season in the CIS. The Carabins finished second during the regular season and claimed the fifth position in the CIS Canadian championships. In their second season (2010–11),
196-753: Was the highest award in women's collegiate ice hockey, as there was no national governing body over women's inter-university hockey. Following the 1971 season, the WIAU merged with the Ontario-Québec University Athletic Association to form the Ontario Women's Interuniversity Athletic Association (OWIAA) and the cup was renamed to the Judy McCaw Trophy, which was then shortened to the McCaw Cup following
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