THE UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN’S MAIN CAMPUS IS SITUATED ON TREATY 6 TERRITORY AND THE HOMELAND OF THE MÉTIS.

THE UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN’S MAIN CAMPUS IS SITUATED ON TREATY 6 TERRITORY AND THE HOMELAND OF THE MÉTIS.

NCAA

  • By March 28, 2014

    Every March, 64 college basketball teams from across the United States compete for the National Championship in the March Madness tournament.

  • CIS president skeptical of countrywide “tiered-league” proposal

    By February 1, 2013

    The winds of change are blowing around Canadian Interuniversity Sport. David Grossman of Sportsnet 590, a Canadian radio show, hosted CIS President Leo MacPherson Dec. 16 to discuss a December meeting of university presidents.

  • SFU officially becomes first non-American school in NCAA

    By September 8, 2012

    Simon Fraser University’s membership in the National Collegiate Athletic Association officially took effect Sept. 1, making SFU the first Canadian school to be accepted into the century-old organization.

  • CIS in no rush to mirror NCAA transgender policy

    By October 1, 2011

    The National Collegiate Athletic Association recently adopted a new policy for transgender athletes, but Canadian Interuniversity Sport and many other Canadian athletic associations are in no rush to do the same.

    The NCAA’s policy states that any athlete who has testosterone in their system as the result of medical treatment cannot compete on a women’s team. The CIS, however, will likely not implement its own transgender policy any time soon. It is waiting for a set of guidelines from the Canadian Centre for Ethics in Sport on how best to include transgender athletes within their league.

  • A look at why athletes who crossed the border into the NCAA came back

    By March 7, 2011

    Go to the States or stay close to home? Big Ten Conference or Canada West? Packed stadiums or parent-only crowds? A possible full-ride scholarship or a summer spent babysitting to pay tuition?