Cascades Men’s and Women’s Soccer enter 2010 CWUAA regular season with optimism as they both had excellent preseason campaigns and start league play with a great mix of veterans and first year student-athletes as they battle for a post season berth in early November, 2010. The Men’s Golf program look to “three peat” in the BCCAA and the UFV Rowers will participate in the CURC in Victoria, in November.
Led by Alan Erington, entering his 7th season as Head Coach of the Cascades, looks to his core of veterans to continue the progress the Men’s soccer program has made over the past several CWUAA regular seasons. The Cascades finished the preseason a perfect 4-0, including two wins at Bateman Park, over National Ranked Carleton University (OUA). Returning to lead the Cascades are fifth year senior defender Andrew McCulloch, Abbotsford, BC, majoring in Business and Craig Robinson, a third year forward, Chilliwack, BC, majoring in Kinesiology.
Errington is introducing an excellent recruiting class to the UFV Cascade family as first year student-athletes Mohammed Aziz, a midfielder from Abbotsford, BC, Stuart Rowlands, a Striker from Chilliwack, BC and Sasa Plavsic, a midfielder from Coquitlam, BC. All three played this past summer for the Abbotsford Mariners PDL team and jumped right into the Cascades starting line up.
The Cascades play at Bateman Park, in Abbotsford, BC, the CWUAA regular season runs from September through October, with post season in early November. The 2010 CIS National Championship with be in Toronto, Ontario, by the University of Toronto Varsity Blues, the weekend of November 11-14.
The Women’s Soccer program will be guided by the University of the Fraser Valley’s newest Head Coach Rob Giesbrecht. Rob comes to the Cascades after serving as Head Coach of Concordia University (Seward, Nebraska) the past five years. Rob has also spent time with the Cascades arch rivals Trinity Western University Spartans program, he served as Assistant Coach for six years in Langley.
Rob will depend on veteran goalkeeper Chantelle Biagioni, Pitt Meadows, BC, a third year Arts Studies major and Lyndsay Munro, a fifth year defender, from Maple Ridge, BC majoring in History. While Rob joined the Cascades on July 1st, he will introducing a very good recruiting class to UFV led by Carly Neeson, a Striker from Maple Ridge, Bc who played for the Golden Ears United this past summer, Andrea McLachlan a 4th year transfer from TWU, who hails from Maple Ridge, BC and Danielle du Bruin, a midfielder from Victoria, BC.
The Cascades finished the preseason with a 3-2 record against NCAA and NAIA universities. They also play in the CWUAA from September to October with post season first week in November. The CIS Women’s Soccer National Championship will be hosted by UPEI Panthers, in Charlottetown, the weekend of November 11-14. The women’s soccer team play their home matches at Bateman Park (Abbotsford, BC).
Men’s Golf
The Men’s Golf program enters the 2010-11 BCCAA regular season already having played in two major events. The Cascades veteran Golfers Mitch Lock, a third year General Studies major from Mission, BC and Brett Stewart, a fourth year General Studies major from Abbotsford, BC represented UFV and Canada at an international tournament in Taipei, Taiwan where they held their own against the competition finishing in the Top 30. The Cascades also won the first annual Coquihalla Cup, defeating TRU, 12-4, this past weekend.
The Cascades are coached by Chris Bertram, entering his 6th season as Head Coach of the UFV Golf program. Under Bertram the Cascades are two-time defending BCCAA Champions and with a nucleus of veteran players returning look poised to compete for a third straight college title. The Cascades call the Chilliwack Golf & Country Club their home course and host their BCCAA opponents the weekend of September 25 and 26.
UFV Cascades men’s and women’s rowing program is led by its founder Liz Chisholm, who enters her 10th season as Head Coach. The Cascades Rowing program participates in 5 regattas from September to late October leading up to the (CURC) Canadian Rowing University Championship, which will be held in Victoria, BC the weekend of November 6-7th.
The program is led by veteran rowers Courtenay Landsiedel, third year Mathematics major, from Abbotsford, BC. The men are led by Spencer Landsiedel, a third year business major, from Abbotsford, BC. Coach Chisholm’s top recruit is Langley, BC native Samantha Graham, who is no stranger to the Cascades home base the Fort Langley Rowing Club where she comes to UFV with tremendous success at the BC high school level.
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