Montreal Carabins - History of The Club

History of The Club

year Event
The beginning of 1920s Creation of the club Montreal Carabins
The decades 1940, 1950 and 1960, Montreal Carabins add several sports teams to affect a summit in the years 1965-1970 both by the number of offered sports activities and by the quality of their organization.
1971 Abandonment of the university sports teams in the club: The financial university budget of the teams is considerably reduced and the freed sums are used to finance non-competitive "popular sport". A long tradition is then broken.
The 70s and 80 Continuation of the activities of Alpine skiing and of badminton without institutional recognition of university
End of the 80s Return of the teams of swimming (1985) and of volleyball (men in 1988 and women in 1989). The various teams know a lot of success at the beginning of 1990s while the University knows money troubles.
1994 the big blackout: The budgetary situation of the university does not allow to absorb the expenses of the program of the Carabins and the activities of the teams are suspended.
1995 Relaunching of the program of excellent sport via the physical educational department
1997 Victory in the referendum of the student federation FAECUM: The student Federation agrees to contribute to the financing of the sporting programs up to $100,000. a year.
1999 and 2000 Official membership of the teams of Alpine skiing and badminton. Setting-up of the golf team
2001 Setting-up of the men soccer team
2002 Setting-up of the football team and setting-up the women soccer team
2003 and 2004 Organisation of the Championships of soccer (men's and women's) of SIC (together collaboration with McGill University), setting-up of the volleyball teams (mens and women's)
2007 Setting-up of the tennis teams (men's and women's)
2008 Announcement of the creation of the women hockey team
2009 Setting-up of the women hockey team
2010 Setting-up of cheerleading team

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