The Carleton Ravens are the athletic teams that represent

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, Ontario. The most notable sports team for Carleton is the men's basketball team. In men's basketball, the Ravens have won 16 of the last 19 national men's championships, which is more than any top division college in Canada or the United States. The Ravens went on an 87-game winning streak from 2003 to 2006. They also had a 54-game home winning streak. The Ravens finished 2nd in the World University Basketball Championships in 2004. Outside basketball, the Ravens won the silver medal at the 2015 Winter Universiade in Granada. They are also the Men's Water Polo and Men's Fencing provincial champions. The Men's Hockey team also placed 3rd in the province and made an appearance at nationals. Carleton participates in the

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(OUA) Conference for all varsity sports, except the Women's Hockey and Rugby teams who play in Quebec Student Sport Federation (RSEQ).

Rivalry with the Gee-Gees

Carleton's biggest rivals are the

Ottawa Gee-Gees The Ottawa Gee-Gees are the athletic teams that represent the University of Ottawa in Ottawa, Ontario. The Gee-Gees won the national football championship, the Vanier Cup, in 1975 and 2000, while also appearing in the game in the 1970, 1980, an ...

of the

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. An annual football game known as the Panda Game is played between the cross-town rivals. It is the most well known rivalry game in Canadian collegiate football . Since its inception in 1955, the Gee-Gees have won 33 to Carleton's 13. From 1998 to 2012, Carleton did not have a football program so the Panda Game was not held. Today, the rivalry has extended to the schools' basketball teams, as both universities have men's and women's teams that finish near the top of the standings. On January 23, 2007, the two men's basketball teams faced off at Scotiabank Place, now known as

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, in front of nearly 9,720 spectators, which was a record crowd for a regular season

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basketball game. The Ottawa Gee-Gees won the inaugural event 64–62. The event, now known as the Capital Hoops Classic, has been expanded to include the women's teams as well, with the Classic featuring a doubleheader of both teams. The January 28, 2009 edition of the game broke the 2007 record with 10,523 fans attending the two games, with both of Carleton's teams posting victories over Ottawa. In the 2013–14 season the teams faced each other both in the provincial and national finals, with uOttawa winning the OUA championship and Carleton winning the national title. In 2014-15, the two teams met again in the national championship game, with Carleton once again winning.

Teams

* men's basketball * women's basketball *

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* golf * men's hockey * women's hockey *

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* women's rugby * men's soccer * women's soccer * swimming * men's water polo * women's water polo * 15 club sports: http://goravens.ca/clubs/

Men's basketball

The Ravens have won 16 of the last 19 national championships (2003 to 2007, 2009, 2011 to 2017, 2019, 2020 and 2022). Below is their regular season record since 1996–97. Of note, they have captured the Wilson Cup 12 times.

Women's basketball

Carleton's women's basketball program has become one of the most competitive in Canada, winning their first National Championship in 2018.

Curling

Carleton won the national women's championship in 2014 and the national men's championship in 2019.

Women's field hockey

The women's field hockey team has not participated in U Sports since 2010.

Football

The Carleton Ravens

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returned to the

football conference in 2013 after a 15-year absence. Upon their return, the team was led by

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Steve Sumarah from 2013 to 2021.http://goravens.carleton.ca/go-ravens-news/sumarah-named-new-ravens-football-head-coach/ Sumarah named new Ravens football head coach In 2013, Sumarah predicted his team would play in the semi-finals within four years, and in 2016 the team accomplished that goal. After Sumarah was dismissed with a losing record over eight seasons,

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was hired as the team's head coach for the 2022 season. The football team plays at

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. Historically, the Ravens football team first began play just after the Second World War in 1945 and was in continuous operation until the program was dropped in 1998. While the team had some success in the mid-1980s, poor performances and a plan by the Carleton Athletic department to invest more funds in other sports led to the sport being cut after the 1998 season. In their history, the Ravens won one Dunsmore Cup conference championship in 1985, but lost in the following Western Bowl to the

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56 to 14.

Men's ice hockey

The Carleton Ravens men's ice hockey team plays within the

conference of

. Former NHL hockey player Shaun Van Allen has led Carleton as head coach since the fall of 2017, when he took the program over from previous head coach Marty Johnston. Under Van Allen, the Ravens program has continued to be a consistently-.500 team into a perennial threat in the OUA's Eastern Conference. Despite a plethora of regular-season success, the program has repeatedly been handed early playoff exits by the arch-rival

UQTR Patriotes The UQTR Patriotes are the athletic teams that represent the Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières in Trois-Rivières, Quebec, Canada. The university features teams in swimming, golf, hockey, soccer, cross-country, volleyball and cheerleadin ...

. The Ravens overcame the Patriotes in the 2019 playoffs en route to winning the OUA Bronze medal.

Women's ice hockey

Men's soccer

Carleton also has a soccer team. In 2002, the team lost the finals 1–0 in OT to the Brock Badgers. They were OUA champions again in 2005, but lost in the quarter-finals of the national championships. In 2012, the Ravens men's soccer team advanced to CIS (now U Sports) Nationals and finished in 6th place at the CIS Championship Finals.

Women's soccer

Despite having successful regular seasons, the women's soccer team has had little success in the playoffs.

Men's golf

Men's golf has had a long history at Carleton. Despite many strong individual performances, the Ravens have struggled to find team success at the OUA stage.

Notable athletes

''Basketball'' * Ryan Bell * Aaron Doornekamp * Tyson Hinz * Osvaldo Jeanty *

Kaza Kajami-Keane Kaza Kajami-Keane (born January 27, 1994) is a Canadian - Jamaican professional basketball player for Le Mans Sarthe of the LNB Pro A. He played college basketball for the Illinois State Redbirds, the Cleveland State Vikings and the Carleton Rav ...

Philip Scrubb Philip Alexander Scrubb (born November 27, 1992) is a Canadian–British professional basketball player for Monbus Obradoiro of the Liga ACB. He is a 6'4½" (1.94 m) tall guard. During his college basketball career, he won five CIS championship ...

Thomas Scrubb Thomas Ryan Scrubb (born September 26, 1991 in Richmond, British Columbia) is a Canadian professional basketball player for Monbus Obradoiro of the Spanish Liga ACB. He played university basketball for the Carleton Ravens. University career Af ...

* Stuart Turnbull *

Dave Smart Dave Smart (born 1966) is a Canadian former basketball coach. He served as the head men's basketball coach at Carleton University in Ottawa, Ontario from 1999 to 2019, where he led the Ravens to thirteen of the team's fifteen overall U Sports n ...

(coach) * Rob Smart (player, coach) * Connor Wood ''Curling'' * Lauren Horton *

Lynn Kreviazuk Lynn Elizabeth Kreviazuk (born May 2, 1991) is a Canadian curler from Ottawa, Ontario. Career Kreviazuk was the longtime lead for the Rachel Homan rink. She first joined the team in 2005 as its second. In 2006, the team won the Ontario Banta ...

Jamie Sinclair Jamie Ann Sinclair (born February 21, 1992) is an American-Canadian curler from Osgoode, Ontario and is a three-time U.S. National Champion. Her United States Curling Association membership is through the Charlotte Curling Association in Charlot ...

''Football'' * Tunde Adeleke * Michael Allen * Nate Behar *

Carl Coulter Carl Coulter (born November 14, 1966) is a former professional Canadian football offensive lineman. He played 15 seasons in the Canadian Football League for six different teams. He was named CFL All-Star in 1998 and was a part of one Grey Cup cha ...

* Jason Kralt * Cameron Legault ''Soccer'' * Gabriel Bitar

Athletes of the Year

''This is an incomplete list''

References

External links

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