Réseau du sport étudiant du Québec

Réseau du sport étudiant du Québec (RSEQ)
Established	1971
Association	CIS
Members	8
Region	Quebec
Former names	Quebec Universities Athletic Association Quebec Student Sports Federation
Headquarters	Montréal, Quebec
Commissioner	Alain Roy
Website	sportetudiant.com/

The Réseau du sport étudiant du Québec (RSEQ) formerly known as the Quebec Student Sports Federation (QSSF) is the governing body of primary and secondary school, collegiate and university sport in Quebec. It also serves as 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. The RSEQ, which covers Quebec, 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 Ontario University Athletics (OUA), Atlantic University Sport (AUS), and the Canada West Universities Athletic Association (CWUAA).

The RSEQ was initially known as the Quebec Universities Athletic Association (QUAA) when it was founded in 1971 with the reformulations of three university athletic associations spanning the universities of Ontario and Quebec. After the merger between the university, collegiate and high school governing bodies in 1989, the amalgamated association was named to the QSSF and then renamed RSEQ in November 2010.

Member schools

Institution	Team	City	Province	Founded	Affiliation	Enrollment	Endowment
Concordia University	Stingers	Montreal	QC	1896	Public	38,809	$54.4M
Université Laval	Rouge et Or	Quebec City	QC	1663	Public	37,591	$105.3M
Université du Québec à Montréal	Citadins	Montreal	QC	1969	Public	39,235	---
McGill University	Redmen	Montreal	QC	1821	Public	32,514	$973.6M
Bishop's University	Gaiters	Lennoxville	QC	1843	Public	2,250	---
Université de Montréal	Carabins	Montreal	QC	1878	Public	55,540	$89.5M
Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières	Patriotes	Trois-Rivières	QC	1969	Public	10,000	---
Université de Sherbrooke	Vert et Or	Sherbrooke	QC	1954	Public	35,000	---

UQAR Nordets (Université du Québec à Rimouski) & UQO Torrents (Université du Québec en Outaouais) are Golf only members.

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.

Facilities
Institution	Football Stadium	Seated Capacity	Basketball Arena	Seated Capacity	Hockey Arena	Seated Capacity	Soccer Stadium	Seated Capacity
Concordia	Concordia Stadium	4000	Concordia Gymnasium	750	Ed Meagher Arena	1000	Concordia Stadium	4000
Laval	PEPS stade extérieur	12,257*	PEPS gymnase	2500	No Hockey	--	PEPS soccer fields	--
UQAM	No Football	--	UQAM Centre sportif	600	No Hockey	--	terrain # 2 of Complexe sportif Claude-Robillard	1,000
McGill	Molson Stadium	25,012	Love Competition Hall	1500	McConnell Arena	950	Molson Stadium	25,012
Bishop's	Coulter Field	2200	John H. Price Sports Centre	1400	W.B. Scott Arena	1200	Coulter Field	2200
Montréal	CEPSUM Stadium	5100	No Basketball	--	CEPSUM Arena-W	3000	CEPSUM Stadium	5,100
UQTR	No Football	--	No Basketball	--	Colisée de Trois-Rivières	2700	Stade de l'UQTR	1,500
Sherbrooke	Stade extérieur de l'UdeS	8000	No Basketball	--	No Hockey	--	Stade de l'Universite de Sherbrooke	3,359

(*Laval's PEPS stade extérieur has an official seated capacity of 12,257 although it has held a standing room crowd of over 18,000 and as such is often listed as having a maxiumum capacity of 18,000.)

(Data mined from the CIS homepage's member directory and WorldStadiums.com. The members directory numbers seem to be ballpark figures in some cases.)

See also

Associations

• Canadian Interuniversity Sport
• Canadian Colleges Athletic Association

Leagues

• Quebec University Football League
• Hockey collégial féminin RSEQ
• CIS football
• Canadian Interuniversity Sport women's ice hockey championship

References

External links

• (French) Official website