Team Canada Roster Announcement: 2025 Junior Women's World Cup

Junior Ladies coming collectively to carry out on the World’s greatest stage

The Junior Ladies’s Nationwide Crew will journey to Santiago, Chile for the 2025 FIH Hockey Ladies’s Junior World Cup, going down from December 1–13. The match will function 24 under-21 nationwide groups competing on the Centro Deportivo de Hockey Césped. Canada enters Pool E alongside Australia, Spain, and Scotland, aiming to construct on their back-to-back World Cup {qualifications} and enhance on their Sixteenth-place end in 2022.

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The ladies’s roster options gamers from British Columbia, Alberta, and Ontario with the bulk at present coaching and competing in college and collegiate packages throughout Canada and america. The 18-player squad represents 13 completely different golf equipment and universities, showcasing the variety of the athlete improvement pathway.

The staff options three returners from the 2023’s iteration of the Junior World Cup in Nicole Poulakis, Katie Gibb and Maddie Skeans. The staff will depend on the expertise of those three plus the latest expertise of a lot of the staff from the Junior Pan American Video games in Paraguay in August, the place Canada completed fifth. The latest worldwide expertise together with the present kind from college hockey, this staff will come into the World Cup battle-tested and able to match the velocity of worldwide hockey.

Crew Canada completed fifth on the Junior Pan American Video games in Paraguay.

Head Coach Kyle Marks is in his first yr of main this group and now has a significant video games below his belt from August. He stated their key takeaways from the Junior Pan American Video games is about trusting their course of and taking part in their sport. He stated they’re excited to tackle the worldwide problem and can be specializing in mixing their completely different environments right into a successful unit.

“This World Cup is a significant step for our group to measure ourselves in opposition to the very best on the earth, and we’re bringing in a squad that features gamers with worthwhile worldwide expertise. Our problem can be coming collectively shortly as a staff, however we imagine that with the suitable focus we are able to construct the cohesion wanted to compete at this stage, Marks stated. “Every athlete arrives having been examined in numerous methods, and when these views and expertise come collectively, they make us a stronger and extra adaptable group.”