In September, she became the first female head referee in U Sports Football when she officiated a game between the Alberta Golden Bears and the Calgary Dinos. The year before, she was the first woman to officiate a CFL playoff game. Clarke sets no limits for herself.

U SPORTS has announced tennis as the first pilot sport in its programme history.

U SPORTS, the governing body of university sport in Canada, has announced changes to its policies on eligibility for athletic scholarships, which will come in for the 2024-2025 season.

Basketball player Sarah Gates from McMaster University and Tokyo 2020 Olympian swimmer Gabriel Mastromatteo from the University of Toronto have received Lois and Doug Mitchell Awards as the 2022-23 Female and Male Athletes of the Year for U SPORTS - the Canadian university sports body.

Canada's national governing body for university sport U SPORTS and Cosmos Sports & Entertainment have partnered up in a multi-year agreement, it has been announced.

Canada will not be represented in athletics and swimming at the Chengdu 2021 International University Sports Federation (FISU) Summer World University Games - the two sports where they all their medals at the last event four years ago. 

Canadian university sports governing body U SPORTS has launched a partnership with the BlackNorth Initiative (BNI) that will support black student-athletes financially in preparation for their post-graduation lives.

Canadian Government policies designed to strengthen safe sport in the country have been welcomed by U SPORTS.

Waterloo Warriors' Tre Ford and Queen's Gaels' Sophie de Goede have been announced as the winners of the Lois and Doug Mitchell U SPORTS athletes of the year awards for the 2021-2022 season. 

Pierre Arsenault is to take over as U SPORTS' permanent chief executive from June, in place of Dick White, who by then will have held the interim role for two years.

Six of U SPORTS' nine National Championship events in Canada have had their scheduled dates pushed back to reflect changes to the conference regular season and the playoffs.

U SPORTS' annual Shoot for the Cure fundraiser, which aims to support the fight against breast cancer, will run under a hybrid format this year in light of an ongoing "emphasis on player safety" amid the coronavirus pandemic.

For the next four years, CBC Sports is to be the exclusive English-language broadcaster of the U SPORTS National Championships.