For the first time, Capilano University will host the premier tournament for female soccer players in colleges across Canada.
Nov. 6 to 9, CapU will host the 2024 Canadian Collegiate Athletic Association Women鈥檚 Soccer National Championship at the school鈥檚 turf field on its Squamish Campus.
At the event, CapU鈥檚 players will face seven of the other top teams in the country. The Blues were No. 3 in the CCAA rankings at the end of last season. They finished first in PacWest league play in 2023 but lost in the provincial final against Douglas College.
The national tournament will coincide with this fall鈥檚 opening of the new campus, at the former site of Quest University.
The last time CapU hosted a national soccer event was the men鈥檚 championship in 1983.
The Capilano Blues soccer program has 11 national titles between its women鈥檚 and men鈥檚 teams. In 1999, the school received the Quarter-Century Supremacy award for its dominance over the first 25 years of the CCAA.
CapU has three inductees into the CCAA Hall of Fame: women鈥檚 coach Doug Abercrombie, men鈥檚 coach and athletic director Joe Iacobellis, and standout female athlete Melissa Artuso.
