Team Sask. goes for gold at senior women’s football national championship

It’s a big weekend for women’s football in Saskatchewan, as Team Saskatchewan takes on Team Quebec for gold today.

After years on hiatus, the Football Canada Senior Women’s National Championship is being played in Saskatoon, with Team Saskatchewan decimating Team Atlantic 56-0 in its last game. Team Alberta and Team Atlantic will now fight it out for the bronze medal.

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Pat Barry, head coach of Team Saskatchewan, said it’s been an exciting return for the game.

“When you get people from all over the province together working for a common goal, trying to achieve something special, it’s been a pretty special week,” he said.

While the competition pits talent from across the country against each other, it is also bringing some groups together. Team Saskatchewan this year is made up of players from rival teams, including the Regina Riot and the Saskatoon Valkyries. Berry said it is a very unique situation.

“The last time this game was supposed to happen, the (COVID-19) pandemic sure caused problems, as it did in many parts of the world.

“We have a pretty young team. They have no experience with anything like this. So getting together to try and achieve this championship is brand new for a lot of people on the team.

“We’re just so pleased that they do get the opportunity because whenever Football Saskatchewan puts a team together, the goal is always to achieve success and to bring the team together as quickly as possible,” said Barry.

“We had our training camp in Regina at Mosaic Stadium (when) the Riders were playing their game in Edmonton. People from the north were staying in dorms and practising there, then as we moved to Saskatoon. It’s a good opportunity for people to travel and work together and eat together and prepare together,” he said.

Barry said the gold medal match-up will be tough.

“There’s some people on the Quebec team that I know quite well. I’m very fortunate to coach some of them at the World Championship in Finland a few years ago.

“One of them — Ophélia Poisson-Vecchio — was a linebacker for me in Finland. She’s a great person, a great player. So I coach her specifically. Maude Lacasse is an excellent quarterback, she can really spin it, and she poses some problems for us. There’s no doubt about that,” said Barry.

As for what it means to have his team compete at home, he said it’s very important.

“I’m so pleased for our athletes to have this opportunity to have their families who are going to be here, to support them as they represent our province, and that’s something that I’m extremely thankful for,” he said.

Team Saskatchewan takes on Quebec for the gold today at 5 p.m.

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