Ontario University Athletics

Ontario University Athletics (OUA) is a regional membership association for Canadian universities 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. OUA, which covers Ontario, 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 Atlantic University Sport (AUS), the Canada West Universities Athletic Association (CWUAA), and the Quebec Student Sports Federation (QSSF).

OUA came into being in 1997 with the merger of the Ontario Universities Athletics Association and the Ontario Women's Intercollegiate Athletics Association.

Member Universities

Member Universities of the OUA are:

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, Canadian football, golf, ice hockey, Nordic skiing, rowing, lacrosse, rugby, soccer, squash, swimming, tennis, track and field, volleyball, water polo and wrestling.

The OUA awards the Queen's Cup to its men's ice hockey champion team and the Yates Cup to its men's football champion teams. Winners of OUA championships generally go on to compete in the national CIS competition, against the champions of the other three conferences.

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.