Two players with the University of Ottawa GeeGees hockey team have been charged with sexually assaulting a woman in a Thunder Bay hotel room.

The incident in February led to the university suspending the hockey program for the 2014-15 season and firing the head coach.

The men were charged this week for the incident, which Thunder Bay police said happened early in the morning of February 2.

Police said the victim was a 21-year-old woman.

Thunder Bay police said in a news release that they learned of the incident from a third party on Feb. 25.

“The charges against the two men came after an extensive investigation by the Thunder Bay Police Service’s Criminal Investigations Branch,” Chris Adams of Thunder Bay police said in a prepared statement on Friday said. “Investigators travelled to Ottawa in March to conduct interviews with members of the University of Ottawa hockey program.”

Helping in the investigation was the Ottawa police sexual assault and child abuse section and the Thunder Bay detachment of the RCMP.

At the time of the incident, both men were players with the University of Ottawa men’s hockey team, which was in Thunder Bay to play against Lakehead University in a scheduled O.U.A. division game.

The university fired the head coach of its men’s hockey team after an internal investigation into allegations of excessive drinking and sexual misconduct during the Thunder Bay road trip.

While the coach wasn’t involved in any sexual misconduct, he should have told authorities about allegations involving his team, University president Allan Rock said in June.

The university also suspended its men’s hockey program for the 2014-15 season.

As Rock announced the disciplinary moves, he said the university will also implement new policies and behaviour guidelines for its athletes.

Charged with sexual assault are Guillaume Donovan, 24, and David Foucher, 25, both of Gatineau, Que.

They were charged in Ottawa this week and released on an undertaking that they will appear in court in Thunder Bay on Sept. 30.

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The university will continue to cooperate with authorities and the program remains under suspension for the fall and winter season, a university spokeswoman said.

“The university’s focus was on whether the players’ behaviour met the standards that the university community is entitled to expect from those who have the privilege of wearing the university’s colours,” she said in a prepared statement.

She noted that the university suspended the men’s hockey program, not individual players.

“The university is rebuilding the men’s varsity hockey program,” she said. “We are hiring a new coach and putting in place improved policies, including new behavior guidelines for student-athletes.”