Major women's sport leagues in North America regional associations of U Sports: Canada West Universities Athletic Association, Ontario University Athletics, Réseau du sport étudiant du Québec, and Atlantic University Sport. After interconference playoffs have been played, eight teams compete for the Gladys Bean Memorial Trophy, awarded to the U Sports Women's Soccer Championship team. The regular season is eight to nine weeks long, depending on the conference, and, as of 2016, opens on the Labour Day weekend. Teams play between 13 and 16 regular season games, depending on conference or division, with teams typically playing a home-and-home series with every other team in their conference or division.
Foster Trophy Foster Trophy The Foster Trophy is the trophy given to the ArenaBowl champion. It was first awarded in 1992, and has been used ever since as the name of the trophy, although the current hardware is not the original item (see below) . It is named after Jim Foster, the inventor of the sport of Arena football and the principal founder of the Arena Football League, also serving as the sport's first commissioner. The bas-relief football players on the trophy were originally sculpted in Azbro Wax by Massachusetts sculptor James Linehan for the company New England Pewter. In 2004, the