2016-17 StFX X-Women Soccer News
Atlantic University Sport released the 2017 fall sports schedules today, including women’s rugby, men’s and women’s soccer as well as men’s and women’s cross country. Hosts for the 2017 fall championships were also confirmed.
The StFX Department of Athletics honored its 2015-16 U SPORTS Academic All-Canadians Thursday morning at their annual celebratory breakfast.
Bell Let’s Talk, Canadian universities and Atlantic University Sport (AUS), Réseau du sport étudiant du Québec (RSEQ), Ontario University Athletics (OUA), and Canada West Universities Athletic Association (CWUAA) today announced a national student initiative to promote mental health on campuses across Canada.
StFX Athletics is pleased to announce that they will be hosting a ‘Night of Champions’ event on Thursday, December 1st at the StFX Oland Centre main gymnasium.
The Queen’s Gaels showed up with a game plan and worked it pretty much to perfection in a 1-0 victory over the StFX X-Women in the third of four quarterfinal matches on day one of the CIS women’s soccer championship on Thursday.
When Acadia and StFX met in this year’s AUS women’s soccer final, the X-Women claimed a 2-1 victory in a game that took penalty kicks to decide. As fate would have it, just five days later, the same two teams hooked up in consolation semifinal action at the CIS championship, this time on Acadia’s home field, and this time with the Awxewomen coming out on top 2-1, again in penalty kicks.
First year X-Women midfielder Mercy Myles was honored as a U Sports second team All-Canadian Wednesday evening at the awards banquet in conjunction with the national championship.
After capturing the Gladys Bean Memorial Trophy for a record-breaking sixth time last season, the No.1 UBC Thunderbirds enter this year’s national tournament as the winningest women’s soccer program in CIS national championship history.
The AUS champion StFX X-Women are seeded No. 4 heading into this weekend's CIS national championship in Wolfville, NS and will play the No. 5 seeded Queen's Gaels at 5:00 pm in a quarterfinal game.
The StFX X-Women are the 2016 AUS champions after a 2-1 victory in penalty kicks over the Acadia Axewomen Sunday afternoon at CBU Field.
The No. 4 seeded StFX X-Women knocked off the No. 1 seeded Cape Breton Capers with a 1-0 victory in Subway AUS semifinal action Friday night at CBU Field. The X-Women needed penalty kicks to seal the victory after the teams played 120 minutes of scoreless soccer.
X-Women midfielder Mercy Myles was honored as an AUS first team all-star at Thursday's championship awards brunch, while midfielder Alix Bruch and striker Chloe Brennan were named AUS second team all-stars.
The No. 4 StFX X-Women defeated the No. 5 UNB Varsity Reds 2-1 in the second quarterfinal game of the Subway AUS Women’s Championship late Thursday night at CBU Field. The game featured some great defensive tactics and limited scoring chances.
The 2016 Subway AUS Women’s Soccer Championship will be hosted by Cape Breton University at CBU Field in Sydney, N.S. Nov. 3 to 6, 2016.
The Cape Breton Capers took care of business on a rainy Saturday afternoon at CBU field, defeating the StFX X-Women 3-1 to lock up first place and a bye in the upcoming AUS playoffs.
The StFX X-Women (7-1-4) ended their regular season home schedule with a 3-1 victory over the Saint Mary’s Huskies (0-12) in AUS soccer action Wednesday evening at StFX Stadium.
