Women's Sports at UNB
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 |
1964 | Diving | MIAU Champions
Two women were in the diving team. |
1964 | Volleyball | MIAU Champions |
1965 | Field Hockey | MWIAAU Champions.
Third year in a row. Outstanding Female Athlete – Patricia Martin (Field Hockey) |
1965 | Swimming | NB-PEI Champions |
1965 | Diving | MIAU Champions
Two women were in the diving team. |
1965 | Basketball | Maritime Champs (Red Bloomers)
One of the best teams in the last few years (Red Rovers) |
1965 | Volleyball | MIAU Champions
Five years in a row. |
1966 | Basketball | Outstanding Female Athlete – Joan Carson |
1966 | Volleyball | MWIAAU Tournament
Winning all seven matches during the two day round-robin MWIAAU Tournament, the Red Rompers were victorious for the sixth year in a row. |
1966 | Swimming | Maritime Intercollegiate Champions
New Brunswick Open Champions |
1966 | Basketball | 8th Maritime Intercollegiate Championship (Red Bloomers)
MWIAAU Intercollegiate Champions (Red Rovers) |
1967 | Field Hockey | Maritime Intercollegiate Champions |
1967 | Volleyball | 7th Maritime Intercollegiate Champions |
1967 | Badminton | Maritime Champions. Three women in the team. |
1967 | Basketball | 9th Maritime Intercollegiate Champions
Outstanding Female Athlete – Joanne Taylor (Basketball) |
1968 | Basketball | Womens Inter-collegiate Basketball
Outstanding Female Athlete – Sandra N. Barr |
1969 | Volleyball | AWIAU Champions
Captured title for 9th consecutive year |
1969 | Field Hockey | AWIAU Champions |
1969 | Basketball | AWIAU Champions (Red Bloomers)
Maritime Intercollegiate Champions (Red Rovers) Outstanding Female Athlete – Leckie Langley (Basketball) |
1969 | Gymnastics | MIAU Champions. Three girls in the team. |
1969 | Swimming | AWIAU Champs |
1970 | Swimming | Female Athletes of the year – Cathy Aitkins |
1971 | Swimming | Maritime Champions |
1971 | Gymnastics | AIAA Champions
Four women in the team |
1971 | Basketball | Female Athletes of the Year – Coreen Flemming |
1972 | Field Hockey | Female Athlete of the Year – Mary Moseychuck |
1973 | ? | Female Athlete of the Year – Sally W. Coughey McAllister |
1974 | Basketball | AWIAA Champs (Red Rovers) |
1974 | Field Hockey | AWIAA Champs (Red Sticks) |
1974 | Volleyball | Reds ‘rage on’ to AWIAA volleyball crown
Female Athlete of the Year – Joyce Douthwright |
1975 | Swimming | Debbie Prince broke her own record Individual Medley
Outstanding Female Athlete – Debbie Prince (Swimming) |
1976 | Basketball | Bloomers are undisputed queens of AUAA courts. Female Athlete of the Year – Janet Goggin (Field Hockey Basketball) |
1976 | Volleyball | NB provincial title to volleyball “Reds” |
1976 | Judo | The women’s team of Linda MacRae, Tina Hicks, Lucie Bertin, Therese Michaud and Glenna Smith captured the first women’s team trophy ever offered in New Brunswick. |
1977 | Volleyball | The highlight of this year’s season was definitely the 11th annual UNB Volleyball Invitational Tournament, where the “Red” captured first place honors in the women’s division.
Outstanding Female Athlete – Liz Johnson (Volleyball) |
1978 | Swimming | AUAA 200 Individual Medley Champion – Debbie Whittemore
Female Athlete of the Year – Ginny Bradley (Swimming) |
1978 | Basketball | First in the UNB Holiday Classic Tournament for the second year in a row.
First in the AUAA’s |
1979 | Basketball | The Bloomers won the Holiday Classic for the third year in a row.
Female Athlete of the Year – Cathy Maxwell (Basketball) |
1980 | Basketball | Female Athlete of the Year – Moira Pryde |
1981 | ? | Female Athlete of the Year – Donna Phillips |
1982 | Cross-country | AUAA Champs (Red Harriers) |
1982 | Volleyball | Top all-around athlete - Anne Keizer |
1982 | Basketball | Top female athlete – Joanne MacLean |
1983 | Basketball | AUAA Champions (Red Bloomers)
Female Athlete of the Year – Alice Kamermans Can not find any useful information Female Athlete of the Year – Jennifer George and Katheryn MacDougall |