Canada Soccer’s Women’s National Team Program has announced its squad for an upcoming January 2022 Women’s U-20 identification camp in Markham, Ontario. This will be Canada Soccer’s second youth camp in back-to-back months following a 10-day Women’s U-17 identification camp in Mexico in December. The January camp will be led by Women’s U-20 National Team Coach Cindy Tye.
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\u200bBoth camps continue Canada’s early preparations for next year’s 2022 Concacaf Women’s Under-17 Championship and 2022 Concacaf Women’s Under-20 Championship in the Dominican Republic. Of note, the U-17 camp in Mexico was Canada Soccer’s first women’s youth camp since the global pandemic which also canceled the 2020 Concacaf Women’s Under-17 Championship.
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\u200bThe 2022 Concacaf Women’s Under-17 Championship runs 23 April to 8 May in the Dominican Republic featuring 16 nations divided into four groups (Canada is in a group alongside Bermuda, Dominican Republic and Jamaica). From the group phase, the top two nations from each group advance to the knockout phase and from the knockout phase the top three nations qualify for the FIFA U-17 Women’s World Cup India 2022.
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\u200bThe 2022 Concacaf Women’s Under-20 Championship runs 25 February to 12 March 2022 in the Dominican Republic featuring 16 nations divided into four groups (Canada is in a group with El Salvador, Saint Kitts and Nevis, and Trinidad and Tobago). From the group phase, the top two nations from each group advance to the knockout phase and from the knockout phase the top three nations qualify for the FIFA U-17 Women’s World Cup Costa Rica 2022.
“It’s exciting for the program to re-launch our National Youth Teams since the start of the pandemic and see what talent we have coming through the system,” said Bev Priestman, Canada Soccer’s Women’s National Team Head Coach. “These players have just witnessed our WNT achieve a Gold Medal and the role our Youth National Team Programs had in that unbelievable achievement. I’m sure they need no more motivation to put on the jersey, work hard and dream big.”
Canada Soccer will continue to closely monitor all Covid-19 developments in consultation with the Public Health Agency of Canada and relevant governing bodies through the Canada Soccer Sport Medicine Committee to ensure the safety of all players and staff.
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\u200bCANADA SOCCER’S WOMEN’S NATIONAL TEAM
\u200bCanada are Olympic champions (Tokyo 2020), two-time bronze medal winners (2012 and 2016), and two-time Concacaf champions (1998 and 2010). In all, Canada have participated in seven consecutive editions of the FIFA Women’s World Cup™ (1995 to 2019) and four consecutive editions of the Women’s Olympic Football Tournament (2008 to 2021). At Tokyo 2020, Canada Soccer’s Women’s National Team became the first Canadian team to win three consecutive medals at the Summer Olympic Games and just the third nation in the world to win three medals in women’s soccer.
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\u200bCanada Soccer’s Women’s National Youth Teams, meanwhile, have won four Concacaf youth titles: the 2004 and 2008 Concacaf Women’s Under-20 Championship, the 2010 Concacaf Women’s Under-17 Championship, and the 2014 Concacaf Girls’ Under-15 Championship. Canada have qualified for seven editions of the FIFA U-20 Women’s World Cup (including a silver medal at Canada 2002) and all six editions of the FIFA U-17 Women’s World Cup (including a fourth-place finish at Uruguay 2018).
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\u200bCANADA U-20
\u200bGK- Ann Stéphanie Fortin | USA / Rice University
\u200bGK- Anna Karpenko | USA / Harvard University
\u200bGK- Camellia Xu | USA / University of Montana
\u200bCB- Evelyn Arsenault | USA / University of Connecticut
\u200bCB- Vivianne Bessette | USA / University of South Florida
\u200bCB- Brooklyn Courtnall | USA / University of Southern California
\u200bCB- Annika Leslie | USA / West Virginia University
\u200bCB- Jade Rose | USA / Harvard University
\u200bFB- Zoe Burns | USA / University of Southern California
\u200bFB- Mia Pante | USA / Texas A&M University
\u200bFB- Grace Stordy | USA / University of Memphis
\u200bFB- Élisabeth Tsé | USA / Southern Methodist University
\u200bM- Simi Awujo | USA / University of Southern California
\u200bM- Florianne Jourde | CAN / Super REX Québec
\u200bM- Lara Kazandjian | USA / University of Memphis
\u200bM- Keera Melenhorst | USA / University of Oklahoma
\u200bM- Nikayla Small | USA / Wake Forest University
\u200bM- Sonia Walk | USA / Boston College
\u200bM- Jazmine Wilkinson | USA / Arizona State University
\u200bF- Miya Grant-Clavijo | USA / Brown University
\u200bF- Kaila Novak | USA / UCLA
\u200bF- Madeleine Penman-Derstine | USA / University of South Florida
\u200bF- Olivia Smith | USA / Florida State University
\u200bF- Serita Thurton | USA / University of South Florida
\u200bF- Holly Ward | USA / University of Texas
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\u200bCANADA A-Z
\u200bName | Birthyear | Where they grew up | Active start/first club
\u200bArsenault, Evelyn | 2003 | Ottawa, ON, CAN | Kanata SC
\u200bAwujo, Simi | 2003 | Atlanta, GA, USA | AFC Lightning
\u200bBessette, Vivianne | 2002 | Cowansville, QC, CAN | AS Notre-Dame-de-Grâce
\u200bBurns, Zoe | 2002 | Issaquah, WA, USA | Eastside FC in Preston
\u200bCourtnall, Brooklyn | 2002 | Los Angeles, CA, USA | AYSO
\u200bFortin, Ann Stéphanie | 2003 | Sainte-Julie, QC, CAN | CS Sainte Julie
\u200bGrant-Clavijo, Miya | 2003 | Toronto, ON, CAN | Ajax SC
\u200bJourde, Florianne | 2004 | Montréal, QC, CAN | CS Boucaniers Montréal
\u200bKarpenko, Anna | 2002 | Richmond Hill, ON, CAN | Richmond Hill SC
\u200bKazandjian, Lara | 2002 | Kirkland, QC, CAN | Lakeshore SC
\u200bLeslie, Annika | 2003 | Halifax, NS, CAN | Halifax City SC
\u200bMelenhorst, Keera | 2003 | Ottawa, ON, CAN | Ottawa Royals
\u200bNovak, Kaila | 2002 | St. Thomas, ON, CAN | St. Thomas SC
\u200bPante, Mia | 2003 | North Vancouver, BC, CAN | North Shore GSC
\u200bPenman-Derstine, Madeleine | 2003 | Toronto, ON, CAN | SC Toronto
\u200bRose, Jade | 2003 | Markham, ON, CAN | Markham SC
\u200bSmall, Nikayla | 2003 | Pickering, ON, CAN | Pickering SC
\u200bSmith, Olivia | 2004 | Whitby, ON, CAN | Whitby Iroquois SC
\u200bStordy, Grace | 2002 | Calgary, AB, CAN | Willow Ridge
\u200bThurton, Serita | 2002 | Ajax, ON, CAN | Ajax SC
\u200bTsé, Élisabeth | 2002 | Québec, QC, CAN | CS Phénix des Rivières de Québec
\u200bWalk, Sonia | 2002 | Toronto, ON, CAN | East York SC
\u200bWard, Holly | 2003 | Portland, OR, USA | Portland Foothills SC
\u200bWilkinson, Jazmine | 2002 | Nanaimo, BC, CAN | Harbour City FC
\u200bXu, Camellia | 2002 | Port Moody, BC,CAN | Port Moody SC