Women’s National Team Roster for 2025 FIH Nations Cup

Canadian Wolfpack Prepared for Nations Cup in Santiago

Discipline Hockey Canada is worked up to announce the roster for the Ladies’s Nationwide Group that can compete within the 2025 FIH Nations Cup in Santiago, Chile, from February 23 to March 2. This marks the third iteration of the FIH Nations Cup, and Canada is trying to construct on their sixth place end from the 2024 match in Spain.

Canada finds itself in a robust and thrilling pool, with USA, Chile, and Japan. Canada’s pool is acquainted, with the Wolfpack dealing with Japan twice and Chile on the earlier Nations Cup, whereas USA and Chile each function Pan Am rivals. The match format sees the highest two groups from every pool advancing to the semifinals, whereas the underside groups will play in placement matches. The winner of the match will earn a spot within the FIH Professional League, whereas the lower-ranked groups face potential relegation to the brand new Nations Cup 2 match. Head coach, Sheldon Rostron embarks on his second 12 months as bench-boss. He stated that the Nations Cup is the proper grounds for prime degree competitors and preparation for the Pan American Cup.

Canada completed sixth on the 2024 Nations Cup in Spain. Pictures/Rodrigo Jaramillo

“Nations Cup is a crucial efficiency occasion for us. World Cup qualification is a matter of constructing momentum, confidence and successes week out and in, this occasion is a measure of what must be put in persistently and we’ll be taught the place we’ve got or haven’t had success,” Rostron stated. “Now we have been very particular over the previous months engaged on parts to raise our model of play. Progress has been made, and this occasion is the proper alternative to make new development and learnings in addition to execute. The extra we play, the extra we play collectively and the extra we execute our plans on the sphere, the extra this crew will develop.”

The Canadian roster incorporates a mix of seasoned veterans and promising younger expertise. Key veterans embrace Natalie Sourisseau, Karli Johansen, Kat Leahy, and goalkeeper Rowan Harris, all of whom deliver in depth expertise from multi-sport video games, the 2022 World Cup, and different main tournaments during the last decade.

Among the many youthful gamers, Anna Mollenhauer stands out. She continues to be younger however has been persistently touring with the Wolfpack since 2020 and already amassed vital expertise. She is joined by Thora Rae, Sara Goodman, Audrey Sawers, who type the younger core of the crew. Making her senior worldwide debut might be Vancouver’s Allison Kuzyk, whereas latest graduates from the junior program, Brooke McCusker and Mikayla Stelling might be taking part of their second top-level senior match.

“Now we have a crew that’s versatile, multi-faceted and deep, and can keep a excessive degree and high quality of fashion and efficiency that try for. The coach’s job is to assist mildew the athletes, upskill them in areas that can improve their ability and expertise by means of design, a goal and place. I’m assured within the roster which has remained in step with names synonymous to the crew and stay crucial leaders for these to comply with,” Rostron stated.

Rostron is optimistic in regards to the squad’s prospects. He believes the 2025 season holds nice promise for the Canadian Wolfpack, with the FIH Nations Cup serving as a superb primer for the 2025 PAHF Pan American Cup in July, which is able to act as a qualifier for the 2026 FIH World Cup.

“Our intention is to carry out effectively at Nations Cup, current our parts that we’ve got educated, then refine and construct to Pan Ams. We’re course of pushed and we’ve got a transparent intent for 2025 that might be measured and examined persistently making certain our focus stays on qualification for the World Cup and persistently getting into main occasions and progressing in each occasion that we play.”