GUELPH, Ont. – As we enter the first full week of November, four Gryphon varsity teams will be on the pursuit for provincial and national championships. The Gryphons women's soccer team is gearing up for nationals in Hamilton, men's rugby will look to make it a program record five straight OUA banners on Thursday night, men's lacrosse heads to Brampton for nationals (Baggataway Cup), while our cross country teams make their way to Sherbrooke, Quebec to compete at the 2025 U SPORTS Cross Country Championships. See below for more information on all our teams in postseason action this week.
    
WOMEN'S SOCCER: 2025 U SPORTS Women's Soccer Championship
Thursday, November 6 – Sunday, November 9, 2025
Ron Joyce Stadium | Hamilton, ON
Broadcast: CBC Sports Digital Platforms

The Gryphons will be on the pursuit for their first national championship in program history at the 2025 U SPORTS Women's Soccer Championship. Guelph will open play in the quarterfinals on Thursday afternoon (Nov. 6) at 1:30pm as the No. 8-seed when they take on the top seeded UBC Thunderbirds. The winner of Guelph-UBC will face the winner of the Cape Breton-Laval quarterfinal match on Friday. Full schedule and seeding can be found here with all 11 games of the championship streaming on CBC digital platforms.
 
MEN'S RUGBY: OUA Men's Rugby Championship Final
Thursday, November 6, 2025 - 7pm
Varsity Field | Guelph, ON
Guelph Gryphons (No. 1-seed) vs Queen's Gaels (No. 3-seed)
Stream | Tickets
 
The Guelph Gryphons and Queen's Gaels, for the fourth time in five seasons, will battle one another for the chance to hoist the Turner Trophy as OUA champions in men's rugby. The Gryphons will look to continue their incredible run as reigning title holders as they seek a program-record 5th consecutive OUA banner, and 8th conference title in program history.

Guelph has knocked off Queen's three times during their current four-peat, including last season's title game, where Guelph erased an early 14-0 deficit to come-from-behind to defeat the Gaels 31-21. The Gryphons defeated the Gaels 42-24 in Kingston on October 10 during the 2025 regular season. The Gryphons earned a spot in the 2025 OUA title game by defeating the Western Mustangs last week in the OUA semifinals.

The Gaels as the No. 3-seed, defeated the McMaster Marauders in the OUA quarterfinals before travelling to Waterloo and narrowly edging out the Laurier Golden Hawks in their semifinal matchup. Both teams have qualified for the 2025 Canadian University Men's Rugby Championship in Montreal (Nov. 12-16). Thursday night's OUA championship game from Varsity Field in Guelph can also be seen live online at oua.tv with tickets available at gryphons.ca/tickets.


CROSS COUNTRY: 2025 U SPORTS Cross Country Championships
Saturday, November 8, 2025
Stade de l'Université de Sherbrooke| Sherbrooke, QC | Hosted by Sherbrooke
Women's 8km Race – 1pm ET | Men's 8km Race – 2:15pm ET
Broadcast: CBC Digital Platforms
 
The Gryphons men's and women's cross country teams will make the trip east to Sherbrooke, Quebec for the 2025 U SPORTS Cross Country Championships on Saturday (Nov. 8). The Gryphon men are coming off a 2nd-place finish while the women just missed out on a podium finish in 4th-place in the team standings at the provincial championships in Kingston two weeks ago.

The men's side will be led by an experienced trio of runners in Max Davies, Jack Lehto and Christian Rachner. Davies is coming off a 2nd-place showing at the OUA Cross Country Championships and will look to make it three consecutive All-Canadian seasons after coming in 9th last season. Jack Lehto is coming off another outstanding showing in Kingston where he finished in 3rd as he was an All-Canadian last season after just missing out on a top 10 finish in 11th. Christian Rachner will race at nationals for the fourth time in his Gryphon career following his 8th-place finish at OUA's. The men will look to win their 17th U SPORTS banner after missing out on a podium finish in 4th last year.

The women's side is led by Alexandra McDougall. The Port Perry, Ontario native has had a phenomenal 2025 season, winning at the Vigars and Salter Western Invitational, Marauder BayFront Open and the OUA Cross Country Championship. The biomedical engineering major will be racing in her third nationals. Michelle Gray will compete in her fourth U SPORTS Cross Country Championships as she is coming off a 12th-place showing at OUA's, earning her Second Team OUA All-Star status. Leah Stapleton is coming off a top 20 finish in Kingston as she enters her second nationals. The women will look to win their 14th national championship.


MEN'S LACROSSE: Baggataway Cup
Saturday, November 8 - 2pm (semifinal)
Sunday, November 9 - 1pm (final)
Terry Box Field | Brampton, ON
 
The Gryphons men's lacrosse team will look for redemption as they enter the Baggataway Cup two wins away from achieving it. After defeating last season's Baggataway Cup holders Western Mustangs, Guelph enters the Baggataway Cup as the top seed in the CUFLA Western Conference, earning a bye into the semifinal on Saturday (Nov. 8). The Gryphons will play in a national semifinal on Saturday, Nov. 8 at 2pm, versus the winner of the Brock-Trent matchup.

The Gryphons were in this exact same spot last season but bowed out in the semifinals last season to Queen's as they will look to return to the championship game for the first time since 2021. Guelph will be looking to win their sixth national title in program history, with their last Baggataway Cup championship coming in 2014. View the full schedule and seeding.