This year, Queen’s hosted three national championships: Men’s Volleyball in March 2024, Football in November 2023, and Women’s Soccer in November 2023. The Queen’s Men’s Volleyball team won the OUA Championships and played all three playoff games at home.
With all OUA and U SPORTS Championships completed, The Journal looked at the numbers Queen’s brought in for the U SPORTS Men’s Volleyball, U SPORTS Women’s Soccer, and Men’s Basketball OUA Championships.
Men’s Volleyball and Men’s Basketball were hosted in the ARC Main Gym, which has a capacity of 2,000 people, while Women’s Soccer was hosted at Richardson Stadium, which holds over 8,000 people.
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U SPORTS reported for the Men’s Volleyball Championship, nearly 1,600 people were in attendance.
Men’s Basketball played three games in the ARC throughout their OUA Championship run. The first game—quarter-finals—was played against the McMaster Marauders on Feb. 24 and Queen’s Athletics and Recreation (A&R) reported 742 spectators attended.
The semi-final game took place on Feb. 28 against the University of Toronto Varsity Blues and brought in 865 people. The OUA Championship game, the Wilson Cup, was played on March 2 against the Brock Badgers, with 1,200 spectators attending.
This year, the Vanier Cup saw 7,100 spectators, so naturally National Championships bring in more spectators than OUA Championships. However, the U SPORTS Women’s Soccer Championships saw only an average of 515 spectators pass through Richardson Stadium, as reported by A&R.
Given that Richardson Stadium holds four times the number of people compared to the ARC Main Gym, it would be expected that the Women’s Soccer Championships would bring in more attendance than the U SPORTS Men’s Volleyball Championships and the OUA Men’s Basketball Playoffs, but this wasn’t the case.
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