UNB Awarded the CIS Men's Soccer Nationals - 2013
OTTAWA (CIS) – Canadian Interuniversity Sport announced Monday the host institutions for 22 national championships over the next five years.
All sites have been selected pending the next step in the process which involves the signing of a championship agreement by both parties.
“The hosts that have been selected have all hosted CIS championships in the past and have demonstrated a strong tradition of organizing excellent events with the student-athlete experience in mind,” said CIS chief executive officer, Marg McGregor.
A number of events that received single bids in the spring were reviewed and supported including the 2013 and 2014 men’s basketball championships to be hosted by Carleton at Scotiabank Place in Ottawa; the 2012 women’s rugby championship at St. Francis Xavier in Antigonish, N.S., and the 2013 edition at Laval in Quebec City; the 2013 women’s hockey tournament at the University of Toronto; the 2013 women’s soccer championship at the U of T and the 2014 tourney at Laval; as well as the 2013 cross country Nationals at Western Ontario in London, Ont.
The CIS Selection Committee, which met in Ottawa on June 24 and 25, faced much tougher decisions for other events that attracted numerous suitors.
The CIS men’s soccer championship also attracted bids from no less than six universities back in May and, in the end, UNB and UPEI edged Alberta, Toronto, Western and Windsor. The tourney will be held in Fredericton for the second time in history in 2013 (UNB previously hosted in 1980) and in Charlottetown, also for the second time, in 2014 (UPEI hosted in 2005).
CIS CHAMPIONSHIP HOSTS (in alphabetical order of sport):
Men’s Basketball
2011 & 2012: AUS (in Halifax)
2013 & 2014: Carleton (awarded in July 2010)
Women’s Basketball
2011: Windsor (awarded in July 2010)
2012: Calgary (awarded in July 2010)
2013: Regina (awarded in July 2010)
Men’s Hockey
2011 & 2012: UNB
2013 & 2014: Saskatchewan (awarded in July 2010)
Men’s Soccer
2010: Toronto
2011: Victoria
2012: Laval
2013: UNB (awarded in July 2010)
2014: UPEI (awarded in July 2010)
Women’s Soccer
2010: UPEI
2011: McGill
2012: Victoria
2013: Toronto (awarded in July 2010)
2014: Laval (awarded in July 2010)
Men’s Volleyball
2011: Trinity Western
2012: Queen’s
2013: Laval
2014: Calgary (awarded in July 2010)
2015: Saskatchewan (awarded in July 2010)
Women’s Volleyball
2011: Laval
2012: McMaster
2013: Sherbrooke
2014: Regina (awarded in July 2010)
2015: Toronto (awarded in July 2010)
Wrestling
2011 & 2012: Lakehead (awarded in July 2010)
2013: Western Ontario (awarded in July 2010)