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 fight song is known as Oil Thigh which was written in 1891 and features Gaelic lyrics which can be heard at many sporting events.

Men's Queen's hosted McGill University at the Kingston YMCA on February 6, 1904, in the first-ever Canadian interuniversity basketball game.

[2] The Queen's men's basketball team attended their first ever U SPORTS National Championship in 2022 after upsetting the undefeated Carleton Ravens in the OUA semi-final.

The team began organized play in 1883 when the Ontario Rugby Football Union was first founded and won ORFU champions in 1893 and 1894.

[5] In the 1890s, Queen's played in the Ontario Hockey Association (OHA), winning its championship three times consecutively, taking the Cosby Cup into its permanent possession.

[citation needed] Queen's won the inaugural J. Ross Robertson Cup during the 1898–99 season, as the senior ice hockey champion of the OHA.

[9] Queen's reached the 1926 Memorial Cup finals, but lost to the Calgary Canadians for the national championship.

[10] The varsity teams play at the Kingston Memorial Centre following the demolition of the Jock Harty Arena.

In 2018–19, the Gaels won their first Queen's Cup in 38 years, 4–1 over Guelph Gryphons in front of a 2,900 people at the Kingston Memorial Centre.

Other OUA Rowers of the Year from Queen's include: Alex Bernst (2017), Louise Munro (2017), Matthew Christie (2013).

Their home games are played on Nixon Field, at the heart of Queen's University campus, and crowds often top 2,000 spectators.

The program has developed numerous national team athletes including Sophie de Goede, Chloe Daniels, McKinley Hunt and many more.

Striker Jacqueline Tessier led the CIS in scoring during the regular season, tallying 18 goals in 16 games.

These include: artistic swimming (M/W), baseball (M), cheerleading (M/W), curling (M/W), cycling (M/W), fastpitch (W), fencing (M/W), field hockey (W), figure skating (M/W), golf (M/W), lacrosse (M/W), nordic skiing (M/W), rugby club (M), squash (M/W), sailing (M/W), swimming (M/W), track & field (M/W), triathlon (M/W), ultimate (M/W), water polo (M/W) and wrestling (M/W).

The men's curling team, in 2010, earned the gold medal at the CIS national championship in Edmonton, Alberta.

The team led by Jonathan Beuk went 5–1 in Round Robin play before beating the Manitoba Bisons in the semi-final and the UPEI Panthers in the Championship.

QFC provides a positive and supportive environment for fencers to perform to the best of their ability with emphasis on personal development, leadership, scholarship, and competitive opportunity.

Some notable athletes include Olympians Sheridon Baptiste, Anne Marie Malone,[17] Victor Gooding, school 1500m record holder Bob McCormack, and past head coach and multiple CIS champion Melody Torcalacci.

Co-ed Sailing began as a competitive sport for Queen's in 1937 when the first regatta for Canadian universities was sponsored in Kingston.

Royal Military College (RMC), who had a fleet of small boats with a boathouse and regatta facilities, were generous in sharing these for practice and competitions.

Races were often held in Kingston because of this, however sometimes entailed a road-trip to Toronto or Montreal and sometimes farther afield in Canada or to inter-collegiate regattas in Boston, Annapolis and elsewhere in New England.

In the late 1970's, still operating as a club, Queen's sailing caught the eye of Dr. Ronald Watts, Principal and Vice-Chancellor; and also a keen lifelong sailor.

The increased visibility and access to sailboats at RMC also helped promote more participation by New England Universities in Kingston regattas.

The success and broadened participation by Queen's in these years led to their ranking in the top 10 amongst all ICSA universities.

The successful performance of Queen's sailing club created a reputation amongst young sailors ready for university.

It wasn’t abnormal to hear from students that the opportunity to participate on Queen's sailing team was an incentive to attend university there.

In that year, student funding through an optional AMS fee, and in particular the accumulation of alumni donations into the Queen’s Sailing Team Account allowed the team to purchase a membership at the Kingston Yacht Club (KYC) and enter into a cost-sharing arrangement with Kingston Yacht Club for the purchase of 10 new 420 sailboats.

Originally, Boo Hoo was a real bear which was paraded around at football games and kept in the basement of Grant Hall.