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 |
1984 | ? | Female Athlete of the Year – Jennifer George and Katheryn MacDougall |
1985 | ? | Female Athlete of the Year – Margaret MacDonald |
1986 | ? | Female Athlete of the Year – Katheryn MacDougall |
1988 | Field Hockey | UNB beat St. F.X. 6-0 in first round of playoffs then beat U de M 6-0 in final to win the AUAA title for the third year in a row.
Female Athlete of the Year – Carla Reeves |
1989 | Basketball | Female Athlete of the Year – Pauline Lordon |
1990 | Field Hockey | AUAA Champs |
1991 | Field Hockey | Red Sticks capture AUAA
The end of October found UNB’s Lady Red Sticks celebrating as they shutout the University of Moncton Blue Angels and the St. Mary’s Huskies in the AUAA finals, thereby earning the right to represent Atlantic Canada at the CIAU’s in Edmonton. |
1992 | Field Hockey | AUAA Champions
The Red Sticks success continued into the AUAA ‘s as they captured the title with a 2-0 win over the host St. Mary’s Huskies. |
1995 | Basketball | The winning tradition of UNB women’s basketball continued in the 1993-94 year with the Varsity Reds capturing another AUAA title. This championship was the fourth in five years for UNB and the 26th in the last years. |
1995 | Volleyball | The 1994-95 ladies Varsity Reds Volleyball team have a successful history behind them. They are the defending AUAA champs, UNB Invitational champs, and U de M Invitational champs. |
1996 | Swimming | MacWhirter, a second year Phys. Ed. Student was named Pepsi-Cola swimmer of the meet at the ASUAA Invitational where she set a new meet record in the 200 Freestyle. |
1996 | Volleyball | Their regular season standing placed them in the race for the championship, but their two year reign as AUAA title holders came to a halt in the semi-finals of the AUAA’s. |
1996 | Field Hockey | The UNB field hockey team was on top of the league at the end of regular season play and went on to place first in the AUAA’s in a 7-0 victory game against UPEI. |
1997 | Rowing | One member of the team, Stacey Norwood, went to the Canadian Indoor Rowing Championships at Toronto. She placed first in the Heavyweight University Category. |
2003 | Hockey | UNB finished the season in first place in the NB/PEI division. This placing earned the Varsity Reds a birth into the AUS Championships |