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unusual facts about Canada women's national rugby union team


Clare Daniels

Her international debut was on 2 July 2005, when she refereed the Canada Cup match between Canada and Scotland.


2002 Women's Rugby World Cup

The competition was won by defending champions, New Zealand.

2004 Women's Baseball World Cup

Competing teams were Australia, Canada, Chinese Taipei (Taiwan), Japan, USA.

2012 CONCACAF Women's Pre-Olympic Tournament qualification

There will be a qualification held to determine the three qualifiers from the Caribbean and two from Central America who will join Canada, Mexico and the United States at the final tournament.

2014 Women's European Trophy

Five teams will take part, with Switzerland and the Czech Republic taking part in their first official tournament.

Amy Garnett

On each occasion, England reached the final, only to lose to New Zealand; Garnett was a member of the starting fifteen in each final.

Ann-Sophie Bettez

In March 2011, she was invited to the Canada women's national ice hockey team selection camp to determine the final roster for the 2011 IIHF Women's World Championship.

Canada Women's Australian Football League

In 2004, the Toronto-based Etobicoke Kangaroos held footy development clinics at two local girls’ schools; Bishop Strachan and St. Clement's School.

Canada women's national ice hockey team

Nick Cerrone, 1990
Rick Polutnick, 1992
Les Lawton, 1994
Shannon Miller, 1997–1998
Danièle Sauvageau, 1999
Melody Davidson, 2000
Danièle Sauvageau, 2001–2002
Karen Hughes, 2004
Melody Davidson, 2005–2007
Peter Smith, 2008
Melody Davidson, 2010
Matt Perisa, 2011
Ryan Walter, 2012
Dan Church, 2012–2013

Christine Stark

There the resident of St. François Xavier, Manitoba finished in 10th place with the Women's National Team.

Clive Charles

During his tenure as the men's coach, Charles had a hand in beginning the career of numerous outstanding future players, including American men's internationals Kasey Keller and Steve Cherundolo, American women's internationals Tiffeny Milbrett and Shannon MacMillan and Canadian international Christine Sinclair.

Florida Gators women's soccer

Former All-American Melanie Booth has been a member of the Canada National Team since 2001, and was a member of Canada's FIFA Women's World Cup team in (2007).

Holly Lincoln

Holly Lincoln (born June 23, 1985 in Scarborough, Ontario) is a female football (soccer) forward, who won the silver medal with the Canadian women's national soccer team at the 2003 Pan American Games.

Hungary women's national rugby union team

On 5 April 2010 they won the ENTC (Emerging Nations Training Camp) Test European Championship 7's which was held in the village of Zánka, Hungary.

Kathy Flores

In 1991 the USA Rugby sanctioned Women's National Team would compile a 7-1 record at the first Women's Rugby World Cup championship with Flores on the pitch as a No. 8.

Kathy Flores is a former rugby union player from the United States and was the Head Coach of the U.S. Women's National Team until Jan. 2011 and currently Head Coach of the Brown Women's Rugby Team.

The U.S. Women's National Team made its first official international appearance at the Can-Am Rugby Tournament in 1987.

Linda Hathorn

Linda Hathorn (born May 23, 1982), née Linda Consolante, is a retired Canadian professional soccer defender, who won the silver medal with the Canadian women's national soccer team at the 2003 Pan American Games.

Marie-Eve Nault

Nault made her first appearance for the Canada women's national soccer team on January 24, 2004, against China in the 2004 Four Nations Tournament.

Mathieu Fleury

Fleury has a diverse background in sport, having interned for the Minister of State (Sport), volunteered at the 2010 Olympics for the Canadian Olympic Committee, served as equipment manager for the Canadian women's baseball team at the 2008 Women's Baseball World Cup and has served for ten years as a lifeguard supervisor for the city.

Melodie Robinson

Melodie Robinson (born 25 May 1973 in New Plymouth) is a New Zealand sports journalist and presenter, and former international rugby union player for the New Zealand women's national rugby union team.

New Zealand women's national rugby union team

The Black Ferns have used Verusco Technologies TryMaker video analysis system, as used by the All Blacks.

Softball at the 2011 Pan American Games

On October 23, the United States defeated Canada to win its seventh straight gold medal.

USA Rugby

Mike Tolkin is the Head Coach of the men's national team.

Water polo at the 2011 Pan American Games – Women's tournament

The women's tournament of water polo at the 2011 Pan American Games in Guadalajara, Mexico will take place from October 23 to October 28, when the United States defeated Canada 27–26 in a penalty shootout for the gold medal.

Women's Baseball World Cup

Before this tournament the only other international women's baseball tournament was the Women's World Series, which usually involved only three or four nations, usually Australia, Canada, Japan and occasionally the USA.


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