The Memorial Sea-Hawks are the athletic teams that represent

Memorial University of Newfoundland Memorial University of Newfoundland, also known as Memorial University or MUN (), is a public university in the province of Newfoundland and Labrador, based in St. John's, with satellite campuses in Corner Brook, elsewhere in Newfoundland and ...

in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. There are varsity teams in men's and women's basketball, cross-country, soccer, swimming, and volleyball which compete in

U Sports U Sports (stylized as U SPORTS) is the national sport governing body of university sport in Canada, comprising the majority of degree-granting universities in the country. Its equivalent body for organized sports at colleges in Canada is the Ca ...

. Curling, track and field and wrestling are also available as club sports. The University's teams were originally named the

Beothuk The Beothuk ( or ; also spelled Beothuck) were a group of indigenous people who lived on the island of Newfoundland. Beginning around AD 1500, the Beothuk culture formed. This appeared to be the most recent cultural manifestation of peoples w ...

s, after the original inhabitants of Newfoundland, but was changed in 1990 when that name was deemed inappropriate.

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* U Sports teams Memorial University of Newfoundland Sport in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador Sports teams in Newfoundland and Labrador {{Newfoundland-stub