| Custom Title: | 2023 U Sports Women's Ice Hockey Championship |
| Year: | 2022–23 |
| Sport: | Women's ice hockey |
| Season: | 2022–23 |
| Teams: | Eight |
| Finals Site: | CEPSUM Montreal, Quebec |
| Champions: | Mount Royal Cougars |
| Title Count: | 1st |
| Runner Up: | Concordia Stingers |
| Mvp Team: | March 16–19, 2023 |
| Television: | CBC Sports[1] |
| Prev: | 2022 |
| Tournament Link: | U Sports women's ice hockey championship |
| Next: | 2024 |
The 2023 U Sports Women's Ice Hockey Championship was held March 16–19, 2023, in Montreal, Quebec, to determine a national champion for the 2022–23 U Sports women's ice hockey season.[2] [3] The eighth-seeded Mount Royal Cougars defeated the defending champion Concordia Stingers by a score of 4–3 in overtime to win the program's first national title.[4]
The tournament was played at CEPSUM on the campus of at the Université de Montréal.[2] This was the first time that the Université de Montréal had hosted the tournament. The Montreal Carabins were originally supposed to host the 2021 championship, but that tournament was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Canada.[5] [6]
| align=left | Seed | align=left | Team | align=left | Qualified | align=left | align=left | align=left | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | OUA Champion | 2001 | 1 | ||||||||
| 2 | Canada West Champion | None | 0 | ||||||||
| 3 | RSEQ Champion | 2022 | 3 | ||||||||
| 4 | AUS Champion | None | 0 | ||||||||
| 5 | RSEQ Finalist (Host) | 2016 | 2 | ||||||||
| 6 | OUA Finalist | None | 0 | ||||||||
| 7 | AUS Finalist | None | 0 | ||||||||
| 8 | Canada West Finalist | None | 0 |