The Victoria Vikes are the athletic teams that represent the University of Victoria of

Victoria, British Columbia Victoria is the capital city of the Canadian province of British Columbia, on the southern tip of Vancouver Island off Canada's Pacific coast. The city has a population of 91,867, and the Greater Victoria area has a population of 397,237. The ...

, Canada in both men's and women's

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. ''Vikes'' was previously a longstanding nickname for both the men's teams (previously the Vikings) and women's teams (previously the Vikettes) until it was officially adopted as the teams' name in 1989.

Varsity teams

The Vikes have both men's and women's varsity teams in the following sports: *

Basketball Basketball is a team sport in which two teams, most commonly of five players each, opposing one another on a rectangular court, compete with the primary objective of shooting a basketball (approximately in diameter) through the defender's h ...

* Cross country * Track *

Field Hockey Field hockey is a team sport structured in standard hockey format, in which each team plays with ten outfield players and a goalkeeper. Teams must drive a round hockey ball by hitting it with a hockey stick towards the rival team's shooting ...

Golf Golf is a club-and-ball sport in which players use various clubs to hit balls into a series of holes on a course in as few strokes as possible. Golf, unlike most ball games, cannot and does not use a standardized playing area, and coping ...

Rowing Rowing is the act of propelling a human-powered watercraft using the sweeping motions of oars to displace water and generate reactional propulsion. Rowing is functionally similar to paddling, but rowing requires oars to be mechanically ...

Rugby union Rugby union, commonly known simply as rugby, is a close-contact team sport that originated at Rugby School in the first half of the 19th century. One of the two codes of rugby football, it is based on running with the ball in hand. In it ...

* Soccer *

Swimming Swimming is the self-propulsion of a person through water, or other liquid, usually for recreation, sport, exercise, or survival. Locomotion is achieved through coordinated movement of the limbs and the body to achieve hydrodynamic thrust that r ...

Club teams

The Vikes operate a club men's hockey team that competes in the

British Columbia Intercollegiate Hockey League The British Columbia Intercollegiate Hockey League (BCIHL) is a university hockey league based in British Columbia. The BCIHL was created with the purpose of offering a venue for competitive, high-calibre hockey for players beyond their junior ...

Championships

U Sports Championships

Men's Basketball (8) * 1979-80, 1980–81, 1981–82, 1982–83, 1983–84, 1984–85, 1985–86, 1996-97 Women's Basketball (9) * 1979-80, 1980–81, 1981–82, 1984–85, 1986–87, 1991–92, 1997–98, 1999-00, 2002–03 Women's Field Hockey (13) * 1984, 1987, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1994, 1995, 1997, 2000, 2002, 2008, 2018, 2019 Men's Soccer (5) * 1975, 1987, 1996, 2004, 2011 Women's Soccer (1) * 2005 Women's Cross-Country (9) * 1980, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1994, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001 Men's Cross-Country (5) * 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 2015

Canadian University National Championships

Women's Rowing (11) * 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2005, 2010, 2011, 2012 Men's Rowing (7) * 1997, 1998, 2000, 2001, 2009, 2010, 2021 Men's Rugby (3) * 1997-98, 1998–99, 2019–20 Men's Rugby 7s (5) * 2011, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016 Women's Rugby 7s (2) * 2017, 2019 Men's Golf (3) * 2003, 2005, 2006 Women's Golf (1) * 2008

Awards and honors

Canada West Hall of Fame

Kathy Shields Kathy Shields is a Canadian basketball coach. She coached the University of Victoria women’s basketball team and the 1984 Summer Olympics as an assistant coach. She is married to Ken Shields. Career Playing career Shields played basketball ...

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Hall of Fame - 2019 Inductee *Nicci Wright, Soccer:

Hall of Fame - 2019 Inductee * Victoria Vikettes, Basketball:

Hall of Fame - 2019 Inductee

References

External links

Official website
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