We are actually two weeks into the 2023 U Sports activities cross-country season, and it’s time to replace our Canadian Working girls’s staff energy rankings in accordance with mid-season outcomes. 

Right here’s how our rankings work: if a staff is successful, they are going to climb the rankings. If a staff is dropping, they slide. We are going to replace the rankings each three weeks through the season within the ramp-up to the 2023 U Sports activities Championships on Nov. 12, from London, Ont.

2023 Girls’s U Sports activities cross nation pre-season energy rankings

We’re lower than six weeks away from the 2023 U Sports activities Championship, so listed here are the rankings of the highest 10 girls’s groups within the nation, plus a few athletes to look at for this season of their respective conferences.

10. Toronto Varsity Blues (OUA) +/- 

9. Montreal Carabins  (RSEQ) *new*

8. Victoria Vikes (CanWest) +/-

7. Guelph Gryphons (OUA) -4

6. Queen’s Gaels (OUA) +/-

5. McMaster Marauders (OUA) +/-

4. St. Francis Xavier X-Girls (AUS) +3

3. Laval Rouge-et-Or (RSEQ) +1

Victoire de Catherine Beauchemin.

Deuxième place pour Sara-Pier Paquet.

Six filles dans le high 10.

𝐁𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐯𝐞𝐧𝐮𝐞 𝐚̀ 𝐐𝐮𝐞́𝐛𝐞𝐜. pic.twitter.com/SoaVLGc8kb

— Rouge et Or (@rougeetor) September 23, 2023

2. Western Mustangs (OUA) +/-

1. UBC Thunderbirds (CanWest) +/-

The UBC Thunderbirds preserve their high spot after the primary two weeks of the XC season. The UBC girls received the Western Invitational on Sept. 23 in outstanding style, putting 5 girls within the high six to safe the ladies’s title on the 2023 U Sports activities Championship course in London, Ont. Main the cost for the Thunderbirds are veterans Kyla Becker, Katie Newlove and Rachel Mortimer, who swept the rostrum within the girls’s 8K, surpassing the highest OUA XC applications. Though the Thunderbirds completed second final yr behind Laval Rouge-et-Or, successful their second consecutive U Sports activities girls’s championship in Halifax, they’re now early favourites for the gold come November.

Additionally climbing up within the rankings are the #4 ranked St. Francis Xavier X-Girls, shifting up three spots after marking their mark on the Western Invitational, taking third place behind the top-ranked UBC and #2 Western Mustangs. Additionally breaking into the highest 10 are the #9 ranked Montreal Carabins, who completed seventh on the Western Invite, with 4 runners ending inside the highest 40. Then again, Guelph and UBC Okanagan have seen a drop within the mid-season rankings. UBC Okanagan goals to rebound on the upcoming UBCO Warmth Invitational on Oct. 7, the place they are going to host the top-ranked Thunderbirds and the #8-ranked Victoria Vikes, contemporary off their victory on the Invoice Roe Traditional in Bellingham, Wash. final week. 

Particular person title contenders

Jade Berube (Laval Rouge-et-Or)
Kyla Becker (UBC Thunderbirds)
Anna Carruthers (Western Mustangs)
Cameron Ormond (Guelph Gryphons)
Marley Beckett (UBC Thunderbirds)
Catherine Beauchemin (Laval Rouge-et-Or)
Hannah Goodjohn (McMaster Marauders)