The Réseau du sport étudiant du Québec (), abbreviated RSEQ, is the governing body of primary and secondary school, collegiate, and university sport in

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. It also serves as a regional membership association for Canadian universities which assists in co-ordinating competition between their university level athletic programs and providing contact information, schedules, results, and releases about those programs and events to the public and the media. This is similar to what would be called a "college athletic conference" in the United States. The RSEQ was founded in 1971 as the Association sportive universitaire du Québec/Quebec University Athletic Association, abbreviated as ASUQ and QUAA, following the reformulation of three university athletic associations spanning the universities of

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and Quebec. After the merger between Quebec's university, collegiate, and high school governing bodies in 1989, the amalgamated association was named the Fédération du sport scolaire du Québec/Quebec Student Sports Federation, abbreviated FSSQ and QSSF. The current name has been in use since November 2010. The RSEQ is one of four provencial governing bodies that are members of the national governing body for university athletics,

U Sports U Sports (stylized as U SPORTS) is the national sport governing body for universities in Canada, comprising the majority of degree-granting universities in the country and four regional conferences: Ontario University Athletics (OUA), Résea ...

. The other three regional associations coordinating university-level sports in Canada are

Ontario University Athletics Ontario University Athletics (OUA; ) is a regional membership association for Canadian universities which assists in co-ordinating competition between their university level athletic programs and providing contact information, schedules, results, ...

(OUA),

Atlantic University Sport Atlantic University Sport (AUS; ) is a regional membership association for universities in Atlantic Canada which assists in co-ordinating competition between their university level athletic programs and providing contact information, schedules, re ...

(AUS), and the Canada West Universities Athletic Association (Canada West, CW). As with all of Canada's provincial high school athletics associations, the RSEQ is an affiliate member of the United States–based

National Federation of State High School Associations The National Federation of State High School Associations (NFHS) is the body that writes the rules of competition for most high school sports and activities in the United States. NFHS's headquarters are located in White River State Park in Indi ...

(NFHS).

Member schools

U Sports member schools

Since the 2017–18 school year, Bishop's has played football in AUS, but remains a member of RSEQ in other sports.

Non-U Sports member schools

Note: The following universities below are not members of U Sports, and are solely RSEQ members and participate in certain sports.

CCAA member schools

The RSEQ also oversees college sports in Quebec, and the following are members of the Canadian Collegiate Athletic Association/Association canadienne du sport collégial (CCAA/ACSC).

Facilities

(* Laval's PEPS stade extérieur has an official seated capacity of 12,257 although it has held a standing room crowd of over 18,000 and as such is often listed as having a maximum capacity of 18,000.) (Data mined from the U Sports homepage's member directory and WorldStadiums.com.World Stadiums.com
/ref> The members directory numbers seem to be ballpark figures in some cases.)

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Quebec Student Sport Federation Students U Sports U Sports basketball U Sports football U Sports volleyball University and college athletics conferences in Canada 1971 establishments in Quebec Student sports governing bodies