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| Basketball
| Maritime Champions
Won first Annual Montreal Senior Women’s Invitational Basketball Tournament.
Won every game (14) that they played.
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| 1963
| Swimming
| Maritime Champions
New Brunswick senior swimming and diving champions.
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| 1963
| Volleyball
| Maritime Champions
The Red Rompers captured their third straight MI Championship.
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| Field Hockey
| Maritime Championship
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| 1964
| Basketball
| MIAU Champions (Red Bloomers)
JV MIAU Champions (Red Rovers)
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| Swimming
| NB Open Champions
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Revision as of 14:27, 22 January 2024

Year Sport Awards, Events
1939 Hockey The formation of the first coed hockey team
1929 Basketball Provincial Championship
1940 Basketball Maritime Intercollegiate Championship
1941 Basketball New Brunswick Senior Championship
1942 Basketball Tunics made their first appearance this year as the uniform of the girls’ team.
1942 Badminton 3 Cups for Fredericton Badminton Tournament

Enid Bruce - Ladies’ Single Enid Bruce, Leslie Stevens – Ladies’ Double Enid Bruce, Bill Thompson – Mixed Double

1943 Basketball Due to war-time restrictions the Inter-collegiate title was not contested this year. So the UNB team still held it from pre-war days.
1944 Basketball The City League Championship was carried off by the UNB girls without a single loss.
1945 Basketball The Co-ed Games came to a victorious end by their winning “City League”.
1946 Basketball Throughout the season UNB played in the “City League” and terminated the year’s activities by winning the City Championship.
1947 Basketball Maritime Intercollegiate Championship
1949 Tennis The talented red and black Co-eds captured the ladies championship.

Individual championships acquired by UNB were: Joene Moores – ladies 1st singles Faith Baxter – ladies 2nd singles

1950 Tennis Individual trophies were given to Joene Moores. Maritime Intercollegiate Ladies double champs.Trophy winner: Peggy Stewart
1951 Tennis No tennis tournament was held this year. The UNB team kept for another year the Maritime Intercollegiate championship cup. One lady was in the team: P. Stewart.
1952 Tennis UNB managed to win only one Maritime title. This was the ladies’ double play. Marion Gaunce and Janette Webb.
1954 Tennis Ladies’ doubles team of Jane Hickman and Pam McCready won the ladies’ doubles competition in the MIAU meet.
1954 Basketball Enough points were gained by UNB in the second game to win the total-point series, emblematic of NB championship for the 1953-54 season.
1954 Badminton Margot Roach won the ladies’ singles crown in MIAU tournament.
1954 Swimming Pam McCready set a new open record for the 40-yard backstroke. Shirley Hitchen did in the 40-yard freestyle.

This is the first time in four years that there has been a swim team from coed ranks.

1956 Basketball In ’55, the “Red Bloomers” finished on top with Dalhousie University and both were declared Maritime Intercollegiate Co-champs.
1956 Swimming Swim team comprises of ten girls, the largest in UNB’s history.
1957 Basketball A talented Junior Varsity team for the first time in UNB’s history.
1957 Swimming Maritime Ladies Swim Champion
1958 Tennis The women’s team shared the MIAU Championship with Mount A.
1959 Swimming They had been the Maritime Intercollegiate Champions for the past three years, and had won the Maritime Open trophy the five times they competed.
1959 Badminton Again this year, UNB proved too strong for their opponents, and brought the championship cup back to UNB for fourth straight year.
1960 Basketball The team entered the year both as Maritime Intercollegiate Champions and golden Ball tournament Winners.
1960 Badminton This year’s varsity team won the Maritime Intercollegiate Badminton Tournament. Three girls were in the team.
1961 Basketball Maritime Intercollegiate Champions
1961 Swimming MWIAU Champions 1960-61.

They have been Maritime Intercollegiate Champions for the last four years and have won the Maritime Open Trophy five times in six starts.

1962 Volleyball Red rompers win Maritime Volleyball Championship in Halifax.
1962 Tennis Maritime Intercollegiate Tennis Champions

Three girls in the team Ann bishop – MI Ladies’ Singles Champion Mary Jean McNichol and Winnie MacPherson – MI Ladies’ Doubles Champions Lorraine Caldwell and Janet Hepburn – Girls’ doubles Maritime Champions

1962 Field Hockey Maritime Champions
1963 Basketball Maritime Champions

Won first Annual Montreal Senior Women’s Invitational Basketball Tournament. Won every game (14) that they played.

1963 Swimming Maritime Champions

New Brunswick senior swimming and diving champions.

1963 Volleyball Maritime Champions

The Red Rompers captured their third straight MI Championship.

1964 Field Hockey Maritime Championship
1964 Basketball MIAU Champions (Red Bloomers)

JV MIAU Champions (Red Rovers)

1964 Swimming NB Open Champions