Much like football, the team has an early season starting from the first week of September for a month straight until October.

[4] In the playoffs, the Gryphons started strong by defeating Western before dropping the next to Toronto in a nail biter for a chance at a place in the final.

[5] Garney Henley took over as head coach for the Basketball team in the 1965–66 season taking it from an intramural program to a varsity contender.

The team won the National Basketball Game for the first time in the school's history beating St. Mary's University with the final score of 74–72.

Pre-season practices, workouts, and tryouts often happen prior to the start of the season, which is held in late October.

The women's basketball team was established in 1971 (or earlier) and competes in the Ontario University Athletics (OUA) west division.

The Gryphons won the University Cup in 1997, emblematic of Canadian scholastic hockey supremacy.

In the 2016–17 season, the Gryphons repeated as OUA champions, with a convincing 6–1 win on home ice over the Nipissing Lakers, to lift the McCaw Cup.

Players are generally hand-picked by coaches and scouts while they play for their respective high school teams.

The Guelph Gryphons have been working towards a National Gold medal for the past four years earning Bronze at the CIS championships between 2007 and 2010.

[16] The current team consists of a total of 23 players, one coach, four assistants, two trainers, one manager, and one sports informer.

In 1990, the Gryphons won their first OUA title defeating the Toronto Varsity Blues 1–0 in the championship game at Alumni Stadium.

In the 2016–17 season, the Guelph Gryphons Men's Soccer team were crowned OUA champions in a 3–1 win over the rival York Lions.

The Gryphs won their semi-final series against Western in two straight matches but later lost to the Toronto Varsity Blues.

The team's season runs from September to February, including approximately eight tournaments and twenty matches.