GUELPH, Ont. – The second week of March sees three Gryphon varsity teams in postseason action with it all getting underway on Tuesday (March 10) with the University of Guelph figure skating team taking to the ice in Toronto for the 2026 OUA Figure Skating Championships. Six student-athletes from the Gryphons women's swim team will take to the pool in Markham for nationals, while the Gryphons women's hockey team prepares to host the Ottawa Gee-Gees in the 2026 McCaw Cup (OUA championship game) on Saturday (March 14 - 3pm). See below for more information on all of the Gryphon teams in postseason action this week (March 10-14, 2026).
FIGURE SKATING
2026 OUA Figure Skating Championships
Tuesday, March 10 - Wednesday, March 11, 2026
Mattamy Athletic Centre | Toronto, ON | Hosted by TMU
Live Stream | Schedule & Live Results
19 student-athletes from the Gryphons varsity figure skating team are set to make their way to the Mattamy Athletic Centre in Toronto for the 2026 OUA Figure Skating Championships. This is the second consecutive year the TMU Bold will serve as hosts of the two-day conference championship event, with action getting underway on Tuesday morning (March 10) and wrapping up on Wednesday afternoon (March 11). The Gryphons have earned a podium finish in the team standings in each of the last three seasons, winning bronze at last year's championship. Team captain
Catherine Carle leads the way, with the third-year Georgetown, Ontario native competing in the Novice Short, Freeskate Fours, and Senior Pairs. The animal biology major placed 3rd in the Novice Short at both the OUA Fall and Winter Invitationals, and also earned 3rd in Senior Pairs and 2nd in Freeskate Fours at the Winter Invitational. First-year skater
Molli Tilney has had an impressive rookie season. The Peterborough, Great Britain native competes in the Star 10 women's Freeskate event, where she won gold at the OUA Fall Invitational and earned silver at the OUA Winter Invitational.
WOMEN'S SWIMMING
2026 U SPORTS Swimming Championships
Thursday, March 12 - Saturday, March 14, 2026
Markham Pan Am Centre | Markham, ON | Hosted by McMaster
Six student-athletes from the Gryphons women's swimming team will take to the pool in Markham for the 2026 U SPORTS Swimming Championships. OUA silver medalist Liz Greaves in the women's 400m freestyle and bronze medalist Ali Bertrim in the women's 100m fly will look to land on the podium on the national stage. McMaster is the host of this three-day championship meet from the Markham Pan Am Centre with action beginning on Thursday morning. Live coverage of the three-day event can be streamed online at
cbcsports.ca.
Gryphon Swimmers Competing at 2026 U SPORTS Swimming Championship
Ali Bertrim (50m/100m butterfly | 50m/100m freestyle | relays)
Alanna Casasanta (50m backstroke | relays)
Liz Greaves (100m/200m/400m freestyle | relays)
Ashley Hodge (4x100 medley relay)
Lauren Anthony (50m/100m/200m butterfly | 200m freestyle | relays)
Hannah Nordquist (50m/100m/200m breaststroke | relays)
WOMEN'S HOCKEY
2026 McCaw Cup (OUA Championship Game)
Guelph Gryphons (No. 2-seed in OUA West) vs Ottawa Gee-Gees (No. 2-seed in OUA East)
Saturday, March 14, 2026 – 3pm | Championship Info | Live Stream | Tickets
Gryphon Centre | Guelph, ON
The Gryphons women's hockey team will have the chance to win their eighth OUA title in program history, and first since the 2018-19 season, when they host the Ottawa Gee-Gees in the 2026 McCaw Cup on Saturday. The Gryphons will host the stand-alone, single-game conference championship by having the better regular season record. Guelph swept their OUA semifinal series over the upstart Ontario Tech Ridgebacks with a pair of shutouts. The Gee-Gees meanwhile, got past the OUA's top-seeded Laurier Golden Hawks in their semifinal series thanks to an overtime-winning goal in Game 3 from Angélique Proulx. The Gryphons are led in goal by fifth-year standout
Martina Fedel who recently represented Italy at the 2026 Olympic Winter Games. Fedel is coming off back-to-back shutouts against the Ridgebacks and has not allowed a goal in nearly 10 periods of hockey.
Maeve Sutherland-Case leads the Gryphons with five playoff points while her teammates
Katherine Heard and Maddie Min both have 2 goals and 2 assists. Ottawa is led up front by their leading scorer in Gillian Warren. Warren in the regular season was 3rd in the OUA with 30 points and was tied for 2nd with 16 goals and that play has carried over into the postseason as she is tied for the postseason lead with 6 points alongside her teammate Alex Ferguson. Gee-Gees goalie Clara Genier was outstanding in her team's semifinal series win over the Golden Hawks where she stopped 47 out of 48 shots in Game 1 and making 45 saves in Game 3 to help her side advance to the McCaw Cup Championship game. Genier was great in the regular season for Ottawa where she boasted a 1.87 GAA and a .927 save percentage to go along with her 12 wins. For the Gee-Gees, they will play for their first OUA Championship in their second season in the OUA after moving back for the 2024-25 season. Both teams have already booked their place as the OUA representatives at the 2026 U SPORTS Women's Hockey Championships which will take place March 19-22 at the Woolwich Memorial Centre in Elmira, Ontario, with the University of Waterloo serving as the hosts of the national championship tournament for a second consecutive season.
