McGill Martlets ice hockey
The McGill Martlets ice hockey team represents McGill University, based in Montreal, Quebec in U Sports women's ice hockey. They are members of the Réseau du sport étudiant du Québec (RSEQ) and have won four U Sports women's ice hockey championships. Some players have participated internationally, including in the World Student Games. Home games are played at McConnell Arena.
McGill Martlets lined up at centre ice in 2011
McGill Martlets' in action during a 2012 game
Martlets' former head coach Peter Smith
Kim St-Pierre was on more than four All-Star teams during her tenure as a Martlet
U Sports women's ice hockey
U Sports women's ice hockey is the highest level of play of women's ice hockey at the university level under the auspices of U Sports, Canada's governing body for university sports. Women's ice hockey has been played in U Sports since the 1997-98 season, when the governing body was known as the Canadian Interuniversity Athletics Union, following a long stint of teams only competing in the OUA. There are 35 teams, all of which are based in Canada, that are divided into four conferences that are eligible to compete for the year-end championship. As these players compete at the university level, they are obligated to follow the rule of standard eligibility of five years.
U Sports encourages competition with a sense of fair-play
Queen's University women's ice hockey team in 1917
Laurentian Voyageurs visit Windsor Lancers in Tecumseh, Ontario (October 2013).
McGill Martlets against St. Francis-Xavier X-Women