Team Canada Team Canada’s road to worlds
Team Canada Women’s Masters The road started a long time ago
In 2011, Vintage started out as an “all talk, no practice” team of veterans thrown together to play one local tournament. When Ultimate Canada agreed to introduce a women’s masters division to CUC in 2013, Vintage decided to go legit and drop the “no practice” from our motto. At CUC in Vancouver, we won both gold and the spirit award, and earned a bid to compete at the World Ultimate Club Championships (WUCC) in 2014.
We asked some of Canada’s national teams to share a little glimpse of where they are at en route to the 2016 WUGC.
almost impossible to make a short list for day two. While having so much talent and skill to choose from was awesome, having to make tough decisions about friends and teammates was incredibly difficult.
P. KAT BRITTEN
Team Canada Women’s Masters will play a showcase game before the Toronto Rush home opener on May 1.
Since worlds are in June this year, we’ve been training hard since January. We have
P. KAT BRITTEN
Vintage won the women’s masters division at CUC 2015, qualifying them for the 2016 WUG in London in June.
For 2014, we focused on our values of positivity, teamwork and spirited play, and achieved our goal of winning gold at WUCC. After worlds, it didn’t take long before we decided Vintage would return in 2015, with an aim to win CUC and become Team Canada.
A strong worth ethic, commitment to our team values and an emphasis on training mental toughness were key factors in our ability to repeat as champions and spirit award winners at CUC in 2015. We had earned the right to form the selection committee for Team Canada…but that was the easy part.
We received 110 applicants, and the committee spent countless hours trying to narrow down the selection to 50 players for the two-day tryout. Everyone played so well on the first day that it was
monthly full-team practices, run by our coach Mathieu Bordeleau. On a weekly basis, the Montreal-based players train with our strength and conditioning coach and the out-of-towners train in pods or with local teams. We have a two-day training camp with Team Canada Women’s in mid-May, and we have organized a tournament in Toronto at the end of May to get some games in before Worlds. We’ll also be playing a showcase game before the Montreal Royal’s home opener on May 1 in Montreal, and another before the game between the Toronto Rush and the Montreal Royal in Toronto on May 29.
Team Canada Women’s Repetition will lead to greatness
Our goal is to take home gold in London! Even
though Traffic won Canadian nationals, and was responsible for choosing the selection committee, we wanted to put together the best possible team for Canada. We had two in-person tryouts. One in Vancouver, and one in Montreal - which helped us evaluate the large talent pool outside of Vancouver. It was a humbling and difficult process, but we feel very excited about this group of women.
The plan leading up to WUGC is to get in as many repetitions together as we can. Our training
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