Cambridge Bay takes on Senior Super Soccer

The Super Soccer tournament was from April 27 to 30 in Yellowknife. Games were played in the Yellowknife Fieldhouse. In the tournament, our teams were entered as “Kilinik” since each team must be associated with a school. However, to us our teams were the Wolverines and we had 4 different teams. We had a U19 Girls, U19 Boys, U15 Girls, and U15 Boys teams.

The age limits were 19 and 15 in the respective categories. We were able to get age exemptions for 4 of our senior athletes so they could play in this tournament which was really great!

The main coaches for the boy’s team were Francis Oduro and Beni Gatsoundou. For the girls, it was Gillian Rossi, Stephanie Moreno, Sandra Carter and Mika Angohiatok.

To fundraise, we got some donation money from Nunavut Soccer, and we ran some teen dances and bingo over the last little bit to help us. We also had support from other organizations such as Kitikmeot Friendship Society (KFS).

The U19 teams have been active for a long time. Many of them have been playing together since they were 13 and it has been special to watch some of them play in their last youth tournament. Our U15 Boys are newer, only forming in the new year (January 2023) and the U15 Girls are the youngest team, only have been put together a few weeks ago. A lot of the U15 girls were more around ages 11 and 12, so they played so great considering their opponents in this tournament were 15-year-olds. They got so many compliments on how hard they worked and how much potential they have to grow into a really strong team!