The article below discusses how under appreciated the CIS is. It also includes a video.
Canada has devoted fans for sports from hockey to football to basketball to curling and well beyond, but all of those sports are contested at a high level nationally where they don't draw much attention.
That would be Canadian Interuniversity Sport, which has 56 member universities from coast to coast with 11,500 athletes, and regulates national competition in 12 different sports (men's football, women's rugby and field hockey, and men's and women's basketball, cross-country, curling, hockey, soccer, swimming, track and field, volleyball and wrestling; many universities also compete in other sports on more regional levels). CIS has produced countless highly-successful Olympians and other professional athletes, and its competitions make for great viewing at a cheap price, but they're off the radar for many Canadian sports fans.
That's why there's something to be said for University of Calgary Dinos' quarterback Andrew Buckley's comments Monday (after being honoured as Canada's top male university athlete at the BLG Awards; Olympic-bound swimmer Kylie Masse from the University of Toronto Varsity Blues was named the top female athlete) about how CIS deserves more attention:
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