25 junior males and 25 junior girls make up the junior nationwide squads for 2025
Area Hockey Canada is proud to announce the 25 chosen athletes for each the Junior Ladies’s and Junior Males’s Nationwide Groups. These alternatives symbolize the subsequent era of area hockey expertise in Canada and mark a major step by way of the Canadian high-performance expertise pathway.
These alternatives observe a collection of spring coaching camps, the place athletes showcased their expertise, technical and tactical means. A number of returning gamers from final 12 months’s Junior Pan American Championship in Surrey will deliver management and expertise to the teams, whereas new faces will inject recent power.
The chosen athletes will centralize in Vancouver this July as they put together for a busy and thrilling worldwide season. From this group of 25, remaining rosters will likely be named for upcoming tournaments, together with the Junior Pan American Video games and the Junior World Cup.
Most of the chosen athletes have already gained worthwhile expertise on worldwide excursions, whereas for others, this marks their first alternative to symbolize Canada on the worldwide stage. Each the Junior Ladies’s and Junior Males’s packages proceed to construct on a powerful basis, having every certified for 3 consecutive Junior World Cups.
The Junior Ladies’s Staff will likely be led by Kyle Marks, who makes his head teaching debut on the junior nationwide stage. On the lads’s facet, Geoff Matthews returns as head coach, persevering with his management into a 3rd consecutive cycle. Each coaches deliver a wealth of expertise and a dedication to athlete improvement. Matthews talks concerning the continuity of this group, shifting out of the final two years into this 12 months’s competitions.
“Once I took over as head coach, we needed to attempt to get extra worldwide caps for our group. The core of this group went to [last] Junior World Cup in India, so for them it’ll be the second Junior World Cup, and so they have two Pan Ams as nicely,” Matthews stated. “We hope the expertise of taking part in two years of aggressive worldwide hockey will give our group an excellent likelihood this 12 months.”
Marks is seeing this season as an entire course of from camp by way of Junior Pan American Video games to the World Cup. He stated there are athletes from many various environments and with differing expertise ranges. Managing that and constructing a crew identification will likely be key to reaching success, this season and shifting ahead.
“Some of those athletes are simply beginning their journey at this stage, and a few are returning U21 gamers who deliver expertise from earlier Pan Am occasions. This steadiness provides us a worthwhile alternative to construct not only for this competitors, however for the way forward for the U21 program and past. The youthful athletes will acquire publicity to what it takes to compete internationally, whereas the returning gamers will play an vital management position in displaying what’s required day-to-day,” Marks stated. “The Junior Pan Am Video games is a chance to reveal younger athletes to the worldwide stage in a significant and galvanizing manner. Competing in a multi-sport setting provides one other layer of motivation—it’s a particular expertise that may gentle a fireplace in younger athletes.”
A Look Forward: Upcoming Competitions
It’s an action-packed summer time and fall for Canada’s junior nationwide groups. For the primary time, each groups will compete within the Junior Pan American Video games, set to happen in Paraguay. This marks the second version of the Video games and the primary time area hockey has been included within the occasion.
Following the Junior Pan Am Video games, the groups will regroup in November to centralize and put together for the Junior World Cups. The Junior Males’s World Cup will likely be hosted in India, whereas the Junior Ladies’s match will happen in Chile.
Area Hockey Canada congratulates all 50 athletes on their choice and appears ahead to supporting them as they symbolize the maple leaf on the worldwide stage.
JUNIOR WOMEN’S 25-PLAYER SQUAD
FIRST NAME
LAST NAME
POSITION
PROVINCE
Julia
Boraston
D
BC
Wynn
Brown
D
BC
Mackenna
Brown
M
BC
Kirsten
D’Silva
D
ONT
Prabnoor
Hundal
St
VAN
Madison
Hunter
M
BC
Maia
Lawrence
M
ISL
Kaitlyn
Pennefather
M
BC
Ava
Winter
M
BC
Mary
Yang
GK
AB
Sadie
Lee
M
BC
Olive
Bodel
M
BC
Kenzie
Girgis
M
ONT
Sydney
Le
M
BC
Kate
Martin
M
VAN
Rylie
Novak
M
BC
Elise
Piper
M
ONT
Pascale
Pottier
GK
BC
Shannon
Stelling
F
BC
Rebecca
Stone
D
BC
Katherine
Gibb
D
BC
Stella
Goddard-Despot
F
BC
Robyn
Goh
GK
BC
Stella
Malinowski
F
BC
Nicole
Poulakis
F
ONT
JUNIOR MEN’S 25-PLAYER SQUAD
FIRST NAME
LAST NAME
POSITION
PROVINCE/OTHER
Lucas
Aardenburg
M
AUSTRALIA
Brooklyn
Aranha
M
BC
Parmveer
Basra
M
BC
Gurnoor
Bhullar
M
BC
Gurwinder
Brar
D
ONT
Josiah
Campbell
M
AB
Christopher
Chalut
D
BC
Navdip
Chandi
F
ONT
Stanley
Cooke
GK
BC
Leighton
De Souza
M
ONT
Satpreet
Dhadda
D
BC
Caleb
Fitch
F
BC
Morgan
Garside
GK
UK
Ravpreet
Gill
F
ONT
Arthur
Goetzke-Coburn
GK
ONT
Noah
Louie
M
BC
Joshua
Miranda
D
ONT
Jude
Nicholson
M
BC
Kirin
Robinson
F
BC
Sawyer
Ross
M
BC
Harjas
Sanghera
M
BC
Kale
Simonson
M
BC
Grant
Simpson
D
BC
Gavin
Thind
F
BC
Robin
Thind
F
BC
