The University of Montreal Carabins have won the 2026 Canadian University Women’s Hockey Championships. On Sunday, the Carabins defeated the University of Concordia Stingers 5-2 at the Woolwich Memorial Centre in Elmira, Ontario.
Eight different Carabins players registered a point for the University of Montreal in the gold medal game. The Carabins players who scored a goal were Laurie-Anne Ethier of Longueuil, Quebec, Jade Picard of St-Narcisse-de-Beaurivage, Quebec, Ann-Sophie Bedard of Quebec City, Quebec, Audrey-Anne Veillette of Drummondville, Quebec, and Catherine Proulx of Mirabel, Quebec.
The championship game between the Carabins and Stingers was tied at two goals apiece with under five minute left when Picard scored the game-winning goal from Sophie LeDain of Kanata, Ontario, and Lea Salem of Montreal, Quebec. The game -winning goal came with four minutes and 32 seconds left. Proulx and Ethier then scored insurance goals into an empty net.
The tournament most valuable player and the most valuable player in the championship game was Carabins goaltender goaltender Maude Desroches of Rougemont, Quebec. Desroches made 40 saves on 42 shots in the final, and gave up six goals on 97 shots in the tournament for a save percentage of .938 and a goals against average of 1.89.
In addition to beating the Stingers, the eighth ranked Carabins beat the first ranked University of British Columbia Thunderbirds 4-3 in a shootout in the quarterfinals, and the fourth ranked University of New Brunswick Reds 4-1 in the semifinals. The Stingers were ranked second in Canada for women’s hockey.
This was the Carabins third national championship in university women’s hockey. They previously won in 2013 and 2016.
