{"id":884,"date":"2018-10-13T01:20:59","date_gmt":"2018-10-13T01:20:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ucm.canadianultimate.com\/secure\/?p=884"},"modified":"2018-10-23T15:27:10","modified_gmt":"2018-10-23T15:27:10","slug":"cuuc-2018-womens-division-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ucm.canadianultimate.com\/secure\/2018\/10\/13\/cuuc-2018-womens-division-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"Canadian University Ultimate Championships 2018: Women\u2019s Division Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ultimate Canada Magazine \u2013 October 12, 2018<\/em><\/p>\n

The women\u2019s division is set and ready to kick off in division 1 action on Saturday. Eight teams make up the field and all of them will have their eyes set on the Sunday finals.<\/p>\n

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Laval will be tough competition for anyone who faces them this weekend. Photo\/Daniel Ngai<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Universit\u00e9 Laval is returning to the competition as the defending champions and coach Audrey St-Arnaud is confident that they can repeat to win the title.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur team this year is composed of a majority of players that have played in competitive ultimate clubs (QUB, QUARMA, QUEST) in the summer or returnees from last years university season. Therefore, we have a pretty much even team,\u201d St-Arnaud explained. \u201cAudrey Clothier will be leading the team again this year as captain, she surely will be one to watch.\u201d<\/p>\n

Trying to take the title back this year is the university of Queen\u2019s who took home gold in 2016 but fell short with the bronze last year. Coming off a victory at CEUUC this year, they are riding momentum and a deep roster into the weekend.<\/p>\n

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Captain Tess Whittmann lays out for the catch. Photo\/Daniel Ngai<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

While the team is made up of several U24 and U20 Team Canada players from 2018, coach Paul Renaud is confident that every player is one to watch out for; \u201cAll players have been working incredibly hard and are an integral part of the team\u2019s success.\u201d<\/p>\n

This weekend, Queen\u2019s are looking forward to rematches against Laval, Waterloo and Carleton.<\/p>\n

The Waterloo women have been the biggest surprise of this season so far. After winning Steeltown on a come from behind universe point victory over Queen\u2019s, the Warriors have qualified for their first division 1 championships since 2014.<\/p>\n

At Easterns, the two teams faced off again in the finals with Queen\u2019s coming out on that time. These contenders will match up against each other in pool play in a game that is sure to dictate the tone for Sunday.<\/p>\n

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Vet Mirando Ko will be central this weekend for Waterloo. Photo\/Daniel Ngai<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Waterloo has a solid group of veterans who have built a chemistry together over the years. They are joined this year by \u201crookies\u201d Jessie Tsang and Alyssa Mason. Having played for the Laurier open team the last few years, they crossed town to join the budding Warriors program. Despite being new players on this team, they have a wealth of experience between the two.<\/p>\n

\u201cJessie Tsang is the heart of the team. In team huddles she’s always ready with the inspiring words we need to pump us up, and her play on the field is equally inspiring,\u201d said coach Greg Taylor.<\/p>\n

Couple that with the experienced vets and the explosive defense of Mason, and there is no doubt that we will be seeing Waterloo in the top four teams on day two.<\/p>\n

Most notably missing from this year\u2019s top eight is last year\u2019s silver medalists, the University of Toronto (TULA), who missed qualifying for the first time since the creation of the two divisions.<\/p>\n

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The 2017 silver medalists will be looking to finish top of the bracket in CUUC Division 2 this weekend. Photo\/Daniel Ngai<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

After graduating a lot of vets and an injury that left captain Reve Chan sidelined this weekend, they were unable to overcome a deeper McMaster squad who defeated them 10-6 in the game to go in the Friday Qualifier.<\/p>\n

Rounding out the top this year is Carleton (qualified at Easterns), Ottawa (qualified at Easterns), Western and McGill \u2013 who both won their pools on the Friday to make it to division 1.<\/p>\n

The tournament is sure to be set with drama as the University championship always is. With all teams making it to quarter-finals on Sunday morning, anything could happen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ultimate Canada Magazine \u2013 October 12, 2018 The women\u2019s division is set and ready to kick off in division 1 action on Saturday. Eight teams make up the field and all of them will have their eyes set on the Sunday finals. The Universit\u00e9 Laval is returning to the competition as the defending champions and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":886,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16,13],"tags":[63,29,153,176,156,155,154,275,62],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ucm.canadianultimate.com\/secure\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/884"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ucm.canadianultimate.com\/secure\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ucm.canadianultimate.com\/secure\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ucm.canadianultimate.com\/secure\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ucm.canadianultimate.com\/secure\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=884"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/ucm.canadianultimate.com\/secure\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/884\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":903,"href":"http:\/\/ucm.canadianultimate.com\/secure\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/884\/revisions\/903"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ucm.canadianultimate.com\/secure\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ucm.canadianultimate.com\/secure\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ucm.canadianultimate.com\/secure\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ucm.canadianultimate.com\/secure\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}