In 1966, the X-Men Football team won the College Bowl (now the Vanier Cup) as top university football team in Canada. The X-Men Basketball program has won 3 CIS Championships (1993, 2000, and 2001) and in 2004, the X-Men Hockey team won their first CIS Championship. In 2011, the X-Women Hockey team placed 2nd at the CIS Championships in Ottawa and in 2016, the X-Men hockey team were runners-up in the CIS Championships in Halifax.
In 2006, the X-Women Rugby team became the first female StFX varsity team to win a CIS Championship, as 10-time defending AUS Rugby Champions. In 2008, the team placed 2nd at the CIS Championships in Lethbridge, Alberta after capturing their 12th consecutive AUS Championship.[1] The team has a total of five National Championships, having won a fifth title in 2016 in Victoria, BC.[2] and 17 consecutive conference championships from 1997 until 2014.[3]
Between 2006 and 2016 the X-Men Cross Country team won 9 AUS Championships, including 6 consecutively and 2 CIS medals.[4] In 2017 it was announced that alumnus, CIS Champion, and Olympian Eric Gillis would become head coach.[5]
The X-Men football program has been in operation since 1954. They were the first Atlantic conference team to win a Vanier Cup national championship in 1966 and have also finished as runner-ups in the 1996 game. The team has won 16 Jewett Trophy conference championships.[6]
The X-Women ice hockey team has participated in the Atlantic University Sport conference since the sport was established in the CIAU in 1997.[7] The program has won 11 AUS conference championships with the most recent coming in 2020.[8] Nationally, the program's best finish was in 2011 when they finished as national runners-up.
