{"id":531056,"date":"2026-03-12T08:57:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T08:57:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/531056\/"},"modified":"2026-03-12T08:57:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T08:57:12","slug":"waterloo-to-host-2026-u-sports-east-west-bowl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/531056\/","title":{"rendered":"Waterloo to host 2026 U Sports East-West Bowl"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <a href=\"https:\/\/3downnation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/EW_Bowl_tn.png\" data-caption=\"Photo: University of Waterloo\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/EW_Bowl_tn-696x392.png\"   alt=\"\" title=\"East-West Bowl\"\/><\/a>Photo: University of Waterloo<\/p>\n<p>The University of Waterloo will host the U Sports East-West Bowl for the third straight year.<\/p>\n<p>The year\u2019s event is set for Saturday, May 9 at 12:30 p.m. EDT at Warrior Field. It will feature a little over 100 prospects who are eligible for the 2027 CFL Draft, including a minimum of three from each of the 27 U Sports football programs across the country.<\/p>\n<p>A virtual coaches clinic will take place on April 11 to 12, while a high school showcase will occur on May 8 at 5:00 p.m. EDT to give players exposure to U Sports programs.<\/p>\n<p>41 players who participated in the 2024 U Sports East-West Bowl were selected in the 2025 CFL Draft. Of the 106 players from last year\u2019s U Sports East Bowl, 76 were invited to this year\u2019s CFL Combine or CFL Invitational Combine.<\/p>\n<p>The roster for this year\u2019s U Sports East-West Bowl has yet to be announced.<\/p>\n<p>Those who will present in the virtual coaches clinic include Winnipeg Blue Bombers head coach Mike O\u2019Shea, recently-retired Western Mustangs head coach Greg Marshall, McMaster Marauders head coach Stefan Ptaszek, and many more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Photo: University of Waterloo The University of Waterloo will host the U Sports East-West Bowl for the third&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":531057,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[166835,166836,6369,49,48,7028,521,522,520,55604,208327,527,905,55638,82,93923,7082,168682,47621],"class_list":["post-531056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cfl","tag-3down","tag-3downnation","tag-bowl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-canadian","tag-canadian-football-league","tag-canadianfootballleague","tag-cfl","tag-combine","tag-east-west-bowl","tag-football","tag-ontario","tag-oua","tag-sports","tag-tape","tag-testing","tag-u-sports","tag-warriors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531056","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=531056"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531056\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/531057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=531056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=531056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=531056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}