Alberta Golden Bears and Pandas

The Golden Bears football program has been in competition since 1910.[8] The Golden Bears have won three Vanier Cup national championships, in 1967, 1972 and most recently in 1980.[8] The program has also won 16 Hardy Cup conference titles, which is the third most championships won in the conference.[9] The program has also had three players win the Hec Crighton Trophy, with Mel Smith winning in 1971, Bryan Fryer winning in 1975, and most recently Ed Ilnicki winning the award in 2017.[10]

The Golden Bears played against the Edmonton Oilers rookies in 2014.

The U Sports men's ice hockey program has been competing since 1908, in the same year that the University of Alberta was first established.[3] The Golden Bears have won the most David Johnston University Cup championships with 16 wins, most recently in 2018.[11] The program has also featured 55 conference championship teams, including a recent period of domination where Golden Bear teams have won 16 out of 20 Canada West championships from 2000 to 2020.[12] The team's head coach, Ian Herbers, returned to the team in 2018 following a stint with the Edmonton Oilers after previously being the team's head coach for three seasons from 2012 to 2015.[13]

U of A Ladies' Hockey Team sometime between 1916-1917

The University of Alberta has featured a women's ice hockey program since at least 1913, near the beginning years of the school's creation in 1908.[3] Since U Sports women's ice hockey became a nationally sanctioned sport in 1997, the Pandas have been the most prolific program in the country with eight national championships won, with the most recent victory occurring in 2017.[14] The program has also been dominant in Canada West play as Panda teams have won 14 conference championships, including seven in a row from 2001 to 2008.[15] The team has been led by head coach Howie Draper since the inaugural season in 1997–98.[16]

The Golden Bears men's volleyball first began intercollegiate play in the 1955–56 season and has competed in the Canada West conference since the 1971–72 season.[17] The Golden Bears first won a U Sports men's volleyball championship in 1981 and have won nine national championships in total, including the most recent in 2022, which is the third-most out of all of the U Sports men's volleyball programs.[18] The program has also featured 13 Canada West conference champions, most recently in 2015.[19] Golden Bears players have won the U Sports Men's Volleyball Player of the Year award eight times, the most in the country, with Terry Danyluk winning the first two and while the other six players were coached by Danyluk when he was the team's head coach.[20]

The Pandas women's volleyball program first began in the 1950s where the team won their first Western Canadian Intercollegiate Athletic Union championship in 1953.[3][21] The Pandas first qualified for the U Sports women's volleyball championship tournament in 1993 under the direction of then-second year head coach Laurie Eisler and soon won the first national championship in team history in 1995.[22] The Pandas then repeated as champions five times to tie the U Sports women's volleyball record with six consecutive national championships won.[3] The team won their seventh and most recent national championship in 2007, with their seven wins second only to the UBC Thunderbirds.[23] The Pandas have also won 18 conference titles with their most recent occurring in 2017.[21] Eisler continues to serve as the team's head coach and has won the Marilyn Pomfret Award as the U Sports Coach of the Year three times.[24][25] Five Pandas players have won the Mary Lyons Award with Miroslava Pribylova winning in 1996 and 1997, Jenny Cartmell winning in 1999 and 2000, Tiffany Dodds winning in 2007, Meg Casault winning in 2017, and Kory White winning most recently in 2022.[26]

The female athlete of the year is awarded the Bakewell Trophy while the Wilson Challenge Trophy is presented to the male athlete of the year.

• Janine Helland, Soccer: Canada West Hall of Fame - 2019 Inductee[30]