Rugby

Atlantic University Sport released the 2024 fall sports schedule today, including women’s rugby, men’s football, men’s and women’s soccer and men’s and women’s cross country. Hosts for each of the 2024 fall championships have also been confirmed.

The Ottawa Gee-Gees cruised past the STFX X-Women on Friday afternoon in the first consolation game at the U SPORTS Women’s Rugby Championship, winning 41-0.

STFX X-Women lock Akwaima Akpan was honoured as the U SPORTS women's rugby rookie of the year, as well as being named a U SPORTS second team all-Canadian.

A pair of tries by Kennedy Feasby led the No. 4-seeded Guelph Gryphons as they dropped the STFX X-Women, 29-14, during the second quarterfinal of the 2023 U SPORTS Women’s Rugby Championship Wednesday afternoon.

The STFX X-Women have reclaimed their throne and sit atop the Atlantic University Sport (AUS) conference once more.

STFX lock Akwaima Akpan was named the 2023 AUS Rookie of the Year, while centre Katherine Culligan received the AUS Community Service award. Five X-Women were named to the AUS all-star team including Emma MacDougall, Akwaima Akpan, Sophie Beck, Skye Koyote and Katie Murphy.

The U SPORTS No. 10 ranked STFX X-Women took home a 29-21 victory over the Acadia Axewomen Thursday night in the AUS semifinal playoff game in front of 500 fans at STFX Stadium.

The STFX X-Women will host the Acadia Axewomen Thursday evening, October 19th at 7:30 pm in the AUS semifinal playoff game.

In a stunning comeback, the UPEI Panthers put a damper on STFX Homecoming weekend by defeating the STFX X-Women 25-22 in the final game of the AUS regular season Friday night at STFX Stadium.

The St. Francis Xavier X-Women defeated the Saint Mary's Huskies 48-7 in AUS rugby action on Friday night at Huskies Stadium in Halifax.

In a battle of AUS women’s rugby powerhouses on a sunny Sunday afternoon in front of over 300 fans, the U SPORTS No. 6 ranked STFX X-Women and the Acadia Axewomen played to a 33-33 tie.

Since he was promoted to head coach two years ago, the James Voye-led UPEI Panthers have never lost at home to the STFX X-Women…until today.

Two tries in the last 20 minutes gave them a shot, but the Acadia Axewomen (0-2) were unable to complete the comeback as the STFX X-Women (2-0) held on for a narrow 21-19 victory on Sunday night.

The STFX X-Women rugby squad kicked off their 2023 regular season with a dominant 81-0 win over the Saint Mary's Huskies on Saturday afternoon.

The X-Women Rugby team competed in the pre-season AUS tournament at Acadia on Sunday and came home with three victories.

For two decades, as much as the leaves changing colours on the trees lining the STFX campus, a sure sign that fall was arriving came courtesy of the X-Women rugby program. In late October or early November – without fail – the White and Blue would be boarding a plane for a Canadian destination, where they would play for a USPORTS Women’s Rugby Championship.

The STFX X-Women Rugby team headed south of the border this past weekend and played four pre-season exhibition matches against NCAA opponents. The blue and white posted a 3-0-1 record.

Over the summer, we caught up with X-Women Rugby's Janet Kennedy and Sophie Beck on their off-season plans, favourite moments at StFX and what they're looking forward to this season — plus more!

Atlantic University Sport released the 2023 fall sports schedules today, including women’s rugby, men’s football, men’s and women’s soccer as well as men’s and women’s cross country. Hosts for the 2023 fall championships were also confirmed.

STFX X-Women flyhalf Sierra Wood was honoured as the 2022 Atlantic University Sport women's rugby rookie of the year as AUS released their major award winners and all-star today. Four X-Women received AUS all-star status this season including Annie McMullon, Camryn Kleynhans, Hannah Ellis and Madison Ross.

A jubilant crowd of current and former X-Women Rugby players, parents, and fans gathered on Saturday to officially open the new X-Women Rugby locker room.

There will be a new AUS champion this season as the STFX X-Women will not be advancing to the AUS final after losing a hard fought 14-12 semifinal game to the UPEI Panthers Thursday afternoon.

The STFX X-Women will be heading to Charlottetown Thursday afternoon for a 2:00 pm AUS semi-final game against the UPEI Panthers.

The Acadia Axewomen put a damper on STFX Homecoming weekend as they defeated the U SPORTS No. 10 ranked STFX X-Women 24-12 Saturday afternoon in front of over 1200 fans at STFX Stadium.

The playoff picture hasn’t become much clearer despite the rugby Axewomen picking up an important 32-26 win over the visiting STFX X-Women on a rare Wednesday night game.

STFX teams are ranked in all the U SPORTS rankings this week, for all the sports in which X-Men and X-Women teams compete in.

The STFX X-Women Rugby team improved to 3-1 after defeating the Saint Mary’s Huskies 43-5 on Wednesday night in Halifax.

The STFX X-Women held on for a close 7-5 victory over the U SPORTS No. 7 ranked UPEI Panthers Saturday afternoon at STFX Stadium in a closely contested rugby match between two of the top teams in the AUS conference.

On this national day of Truth and Reconciliation, STFX Athletics shares open letters from Indigenous student-athletes Julia Baniak of the X-Women Rugby team and Colin Buffalo of the X-Men Football team.