page_title: College ice hockey
section_title: U Sports
hierarchical_section_title: College ice hockey / U Sports
caption_attribution_description: English: Photo taken by Devan Mighton of CIS men's hockey. https://www.facebook.com/devanssportspics
context_page_description: College ice hockey is played principally in the United States and Canada, though leagues exist outside North America.
  In the United States, competitive "college hockey" refers to ice hockey played between colleges and universities within the governance structure established by the National Collegiate Athletic Association.
  In Canada, the term "college hockey" refers to community college and small college ice hockey that currently consists of a varsity conference—the Alberta Colleges Athletic Conference -- and a club league—the British Columbia Intercollegiate Hockey League. "University hockey" is the term used for hockey primarily played at four-year institutions; that level of the sport is governed by U Sports.
context_section_description: University hockey teams in Canada compete in leagues as part of U Sports, the national governing body for Canadian university athletics (in Canadian English, the term "college" is reserved for schools that would be called "junior", "community", or "technical" colleges in the U.S.). U Sports sponsors both men's and women's hockey.
  Like in the United States, teams compete in athletic conferences based on geographical locations of the schools. Unlike the NCAA, U Sports does not award players with athletic scholarships, resulting in a lack of divisional separation such as found between NCAA divisions. Individual conferences hold postseason tournaments, followed by the round-robin U Sports championship tournament in late March.
caption: Windsor Lancers and Western Mustangs during 2013 CIS (now U Sports) playoffs.
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