Atlantic University Sport Women's

Atlantic University Sport is a conference in Canadian Interuniversity Sport (CIS), now known as U Sports. The AUS women's hockey league is a 7-team top tier scholastic league operating in the provinces of New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, and Nova Scotia. The other conferences in U Sports are the Canada West Universities Athletic Association (CWUAA), Ontario University Athletics (OUA) and the Ligue de Hockey Universitaire Féminin (LHUF). The women's conference started with the 1997-98 season. However, the first four seasons only involved exhibition play and a year end conference tournament. The first full season of the conference was the 2001-02 season.

• AUS Hockey Site
• AUS Wikipedia
• List of AUS Women's Seasons

Membership

Teams

Team	Centre	Arena	Joined
Dalhousie Tigers	Halifax, Nova Scotia	Halifax Forum	1997
Moncton Aigles Bleus	Moncton, New Brunswick	Jean-Louis Lévesque Arena	1997
Mount Allison Mounties	Sackville, New Brunswick	Tantramar Veterans Memorial Civic Centre	1997
New Brunswick Varsity Reds	Fredericton, New Brunswick	Aitken Centre	(1997) 2018
St. Francis Xavier X-Women	Antigonish, Nova Scotia	Charles V. Keating Millennium Centre	1997
Saint Mary's Huskies	Halifax, Nova Scotia	St. Mary's Alumni Arena	1997
St. Thomas Tommies	Fredericton, New Brunswick	Grant-Harvey Centre	1997
UPEI Panthers	Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island	MacLauchlan Arena	2002

Former Members

• Acadia Axewomen (women's team was discontinued after 2001-02 season, men's program still plays in AUS)
• New Brunswick Varsity Reds (women's team was discontinued after 2007-08 season, and was reinstated for 2018-19)

Both of these universities are still Atlantic University Sport members.

Other AUS Schools

Cape Breton University and Memorial University of Newfoundland are also members of Atlantic University Sport but have not participated in women's ice hockey within the conference since the start of league play in 2001.  Both universities at this point no longer offer men's ice hockey with CBU discontinuing the program in 1995 and MUN discontinuing the program in 1982.  The St. Thomas Tommies men's team was cancelled after the 2015-16 season.  The Mount Allison Mounties men's team was cancelled after the 1997-98 sason

AUS Seasons: 1997-98 to present

Year	Regular Season Champion	Tournament Champion	Automatic U-Cup Qualifier	Other Qualifier
1997-98	N/A	Saint Mary's Huskies	Saint Mary's Huskies (0-3) Lost fifth place game	None
1998-99	N/A	St. Francis Xavier X-Women	St. Francis Xavier X-Women (0-3) Lost fifth place game	None
1999-00	N/A	St. Francis Xavier X-Women	St. Francis Xavier X-Women (0-3) Lost fifth place game	None
2000-01	N/A	St. Francis Xavier X-Women	St. Francis Xavier X-Women (0-3) Lost fifth place game	None
2001-02	Saint Mary's Huskies	St. Francis Xavier X-Women	St. Francis Xavier X-Women (0-3) Lost fifth place game	None
2002-03	Saint Mary's Huskies	Saint Mary's Huskies	Saint Mary's Huskies (0-3) Lost fifth place game	None
2003-04	St. Francis Xavier X-Women	Saint Mary's Huskies	Saint Mary's Huskies (0-3) Lost fifth place game	None
2004-05	St. Francis Xavier X-Women	St. Francis Xavier X-Women	St. Francis Xavier X-Women (1-2) won fifth place game	None
2005-06	St. Francis Xavier X-Women	St. Francis Xavier X-Women	St. Francis Xavier X-Women (1-2) Lost Bronze medal game	Dalhousie Tigers (St. FX was host) (0-3) Lost fifth place game
2006-07	St. Francis Xavier X-Women	Moncton Aigles Bleus	Moncton Aigles Bleus (1-2) won fifth place game	None
2007-08	St. Francis Xavier X-Women	St. Francis Xavier X-Women	St. Francis Xavier X-Women (0-3) Lost fifth place game	None
2008-09	Moncton Aigles Bleus	Moncton Aigles Bleus	Moncton Aigles Bleus (2-1) Won Bronze Medal	St. Francis Xavier X-Women (Host) (0-3) Lost fifth place game
2009-10	Moncton Aigles Bleus	Saint Mary's Huskies	Saint Mary's Huskies (1-2) Lost Bronze medal game	St. Francis Xavier X-Women (0-3) Lost fifth place game
2010-11	St. Francis Xavier X-Women	St. Francis Xavier X-Women	St. Francis Xavier X-Women (2-1) Lost final	None
2011-12	St. Francis Xavier X-Women	UPEI Panthers	UPEI Panthers (0-3) Lost fifth place game	None
2012-13	St. Francis Xavier X-Women	St. Francis Xavier X-Women	St. Francis Xavier X-Women (2-1) Won Bronze Medal	None
2013-14	St. Francis Xavier X-Women	Moncton Aigles Bleus	Moncton Aigles Bleus (1-2) Won fifth place game	St. Thomas Tommies (host) (0-3) Lost fifth place game
2014-15	St. Francis Xavier X-Women	St. Francis Xavier X-Women	St. Francis Xavier X-Women (1-2) Lost Bronze Medal Game	Moncton Aigles Bleus (1-2) Lost fifth place game
2015-16	Saint Mary's Huskies	Saint Mary's Huskies	Saint Mary's Huskies (2-1) Won Bronze Medal	St. Thomas Tommies (1-2) Lost fifth place game
2016-17	Saint Mary's Huskies	Saint Mary's Huskies	Saint Mary's Huskies (2-1) Won fifth place game	St. Francis Xavier X-Women (0-2) T-7th place
2017-18	St. Francis Xavier X-Women	Saint Mary's Huskies	Saint Mary's Huskies (0-2) Tied 7th place	St. Francis Xavier X-Women (1-2) Lost fifth place game
2018-19	St. Thomas Tommies	St. Thomas Tommies	St. Thomas Tommies (0-2) Tied 7th place	UPEI Panthers (Host) (0-2) Tied 7th place
2019-20	Saint Mary's Huskies	St. Francis Xavier X-Women	St. Francis Xavier X-Women (Won Quarterfinal)	UPEI Panthers (Host) (DNP)
2020-21	Season cancelled due to COVID-19 pandemic restrictions
2021-22	New Brunswick Varsity Reds	New Brunswick Varsity Reds (4th)	None	UPEI Panthers (6th)
2022-23	New Brunswick Varsity Reds	New Brunswick Varsity Reds (T-7th)	St. Mary's Huskies (6th)	None
2023-24	St. Francis Xavier X-Women	New Brunswick Varsity Reds (T-7th)	St. Francis Xavier X-Women (T-7th)	None
2024-25	New Brunswick Varsity Reds	St. Francis Xavier X-Women	St. Francis Xavier X-Women (T-7th)	New Brunswick Varsity Reds (T-7th