 Welcome to the 3rd Annual Western Canada Soccer Showcase to be held at the beautiful Burnaby Lake West facility April 2, 3 and 4, 2010. The purpose of the Showcase, the biggest one of its kind in Western Canada, is to highlight the supreme amount of talent in this part of North America and provide as many opportunities as possible for the top high school players (girls in grades 9-12) in Western Canada to continue their soccer at the post high school level, as well as to understand the off field component of the recruiting process in order to ensure success. Our goal is to provide this opportunity in their own backyard as opposed to having to spend thousands of dollars to travel to other parts of the continent to do so.
Players who have hailed from this part of the continent that have made a large impact at the NCAA Level in the last few years include NCAA Players of the Year Katie Thorlakson (Vancouver, BC/Notre Dame) and Christine Sinclair (Vancouver, BC/Portland) as well as All-Americans Emily Zurrer (Vancouver Island/Illinois), Brittany Timko (Vancouver, BC/Nebraska), Sophie Schmidt (Vancouver, BC/Portland) and Erin McLeod (Calgary, AB/Penn State). Erin McNulty (Winnipeg, MB/Florida State) was recently listed as the top NCAA international recruit in 2007.
Additionally on the Canadian University and College circuit, Western Canadian teams with most of their players hailing from this region of Canada have continued to dominate, with Trinity Western University winning the CIS in 2008, and UBC and UVic also ranking extremely high on the National Arena. SFU in 2009 is currently ranked in the top 10 of the NAIA and Vancouver based Langara College made it a Western Canadian double, bringing home the Canadian College Championship in 2008. Players who attended last year had their good play at the event result directly in scholarships to US universities, and we look forward to providing a similar springboard for opportunity to both Canadian and US universities, for the girls, in the exciting event that we have planned for 2009.
The Showcase is invitation only and teams are selected based on their standings at the Provincial Tournament to ensure a competitive environment for all teams involved. In the last two years we were able to bring in top teams, including the top academy team from the UK, Bristol Academy to provide some international flavor to the event and are already fielding interest from teams in the UK, Sweden and Norway for the event in 2010.
Through girlsCAN Soccer who assists in organizing the event, the promotion of the importance of good personal values is highlighted. With this in mind, 2010 will be the second year that girlsCAN will be offering the Apps-Allen Scholarship, a bursary named after two inspirational recent retirees from the Canadian Women's National Team. Ashley Michelin from SWU 92 in Edmonton was our first ever recipient in 2009. We look forward to our biggest and best ever event this upcoming April, with an impressive list of schools and teams already committed!
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