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| Queen's Gaels | |
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| University | Queen's University at Kingston |
| Association | U Sports |
| Conference | Ontario University Athletics |
| Athletic director | Linda Melnick |
| Location | Kingston, Ontario |
| Football stadium | Richardson Memorial Stadium |
| Other venues | Athletics and Recreation Centre (ARC) Kingston Memorial Centre |
| Mascot | Boo Hoo the Bear |
| Nickname | Gaels |
| Fight song | Oil Thigh |
| Colours | Gold, Blue, and Red |
| Website | www |
The Queen's Gaels (also known as the Queen's Golden Gaels) is the athletics program representing Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada. The main athletics facilities include Richardson Memorial Stadium, the Queen's Athletics and Recreation Centre, Nixon Field and Tindall Field. The team colours are gold, blue, and red.
Queen's teams have had a variety of successes both provincially and nationally. Their most recent U Sports National Championship was awarded to the Women's rugby program, who hoisted the Monilex Trophy on home soil at Nixon Field in 2021.
The Gaels football team is one of the oldest and most successful in Canada, including three straight Grey Cup victories in 1922, 1923, and 1924 and four Vanier Cup victories in 1968, 1978, 1992, and 2009. Queen's University hockey teams have competed on three occasions as Stanley Cup finalists in 1895, 1899, and 1906.
The Gaels have also won the 2010–11 U Sports Men's Curling Championship and the women's soccer team has won the national championship in 1988, 2010, and 2011.
The fight song is known as Oil Thigh which was written in 1891 and features Gaelic lyrics which can be heard at many sporting events. The mascot is Boo Hoo the Bear.