Oakville, Ont. – Golf Canada is proud to announce the names of 29 newbie athletes named to the 2025 males’s and ladies’s Crew Canada and Crew Canada – NextGen squads.
Golf Canada’s Nationwide Crew program helps a bunch of skilled amateurs on the trail in the direction of enjoying skilled golf together with a bunch of younger skilled golfers constructing their careers as touring professionals. This system supplies individualized coaching and competitors assist with a objective to assist advance 30 Canadian athletes to the LPGA and PGA TOUR by 2032.
Athletes are chosen primarily based on outcomes from the earlier season (September 2023-August 2024), with the Crew Canada – NextGen program additionally contemplating efficiency at Golf Canada’s annual Choice Camps. Skilled gamers that might be a part of the 2025 Crew Canada squad might be introduced at a later date, upon the completion of Qualifying Tournaments.
“Golf Canada is proud to announce the newbie athletes that might be a part of our 2025 Crew Canada and Crew Canada – NextGen squads and we sit up for supporting their continued improvement within the journey to competing on the LPGA and PGA TOUR,” stated Emily Phoenix, Director, Excessive Efficiency, Golf Canada. “Our collective heartfelt thanks as properly to the beneficiant Golf Canada Basis donors who proceed to assist the participant improvement program in addition to our company companions who play a essential function in permitting Canada’s high {golfing} athletes to compete on the highest ranges of our sport.”
Nationwide Crew coaches work with Crew Canada athletes and their private assist groups to develop annual coaching plans and determine areas to affect athlete development in all areas of their sport. Athletes are additionally supported by a complete sport science crew that features psychological efficiency, bodily conditioning, and psychological well being helps. Gamers are introduced collectively commonly for coaching camps with nationwide crew coaches and sport science employees. The Crew Canada – NextGen program additionally helps juniors and younger amateurs who’re pursuing collegiate golf as a aggressive pathway.
The teaching employees for the boys’s and ladies’s Crew Canada squads will return in full for the 2025 season. Crew Canada – Males might be led by Derek Ingram (Winnipeg, Man.) and Assistant Coaches Louis Melanson (Moncton, N.B.) and Benoit Lemieux (Montréal, Que.). They are going to be joined by Psychological Efficiency Coach Dr. Adrienne Leslie-Toogood (Winnipeg, Man.) and Energy & Conditioning Coach Greg Redman (Kelowna, B.C.). Crew Canada Girls might be led by Stollery Household Girls’s Head Coach Salimah Mussani (Vancouver, B.C.) together with Affiliate Coach Jennifer Greggain (Vancouver, B.C.), Energy & Conditioning Coach Andrea Kosa (Calgary, Alta.) and and a psychological efficiency coach that might be added following an ongoing recruitment course of.
The Crew Canada – Girls’s and Males’s squads present assist to growing professionals and newbie gamers who’re on monitor to show skilled within the close to future. The Girls’s Novice Crew is led by 2023 Canadian Girls’s Novice champion, Lauren Kim of Surrey, B.C. Kim gained The Peloton Glencoe Invitational as a part of the She Performs Golf Championship Collection this summer season, incomes a spot within the subject on the 2024 CPKC Girls’s Open. Katie Cranston and Nicole Gal, each of Oakville, Ont. return for his or her fifth seasons with this system. Lauren Zaretsky of Thornhill, Ont. returns for her fourth season whereas there are three newcomers for 2025. Tillie Claggett (Calgary, Alta.) joins the crew and is in her Junior yr at Vanderbilt College. Making the soar up from Crew Canada – NextGen (Women) are Vanessa Borovilos (Etobicoke, Ont.) and Vanessa Zhang (Vancouver, B.C.). Each Borovilos and Zhang have been a part of Crew Canada’s historic win on the 2023 World Junior Women Golf Championship. Borovilos is in her first yr at Texas A&M College, whereas Zhang completed T3 on the 2024 Canadian Junior Women Championship this summer season and is presently in her first yr at Harvard College.
The 2025 Males’s squad might be composed of a bunch of pros to be named later in 2024 and options two amateurs, 2023 Canadian Males’s Novice champion, Ashton McCulloch of Kingston, Ont. and Hunter Thomson of Calgary, Alta. This previous season, McCulloch gained the Johnnie-O at Sea Island in addition to ending as runner-up on the 2024 Canadian Males’s Novice Championship and third on the inaugural Canadian Collegiate Invitational. McCulloch, a Senior at Michigan State College, additionally competed on the 2024 RBC Canadian Open and the 2024 U.S. Open. Thomson gained particular person honours on the 2024 Canadian Collegiate Invitational incomes an exemption into the 2025 RBC Canadian Open. Thomson additionally gained the Palmas del Mar Collegiate match in February and strikes up from the NextGen squad to the Males’s Crew for 2025.
Crew Canada – Girls
Professionals to be added following LPGA Q-Collection.
Crew Canada – Males
Professionals to be added following PGA TOUR Q-College offered by Korn Ferry.
The Crew Canada – NextGen teaching employees is led by Boys Head Coach Robert Ratcliffe (Qualicum Seaside, B.C.) and Assistant Coach Darcy Dhillon (Calgary, Alta.). They are going to be joined by Psychological Efficiency Coach Dr. Charles Fitzsimmons (King, Ont.) and Energy & Conditioning Coach Dr. Mike Kay (Phoenix, AZ).
Jeff MacDonald (Chester, N.S.) has been promoted to Crew Canada – NextGen Women Head Coach and might be supported by Assistant Coach Jennifer Ha (Calgary, Alta.). Over the previous two years, MacDonald has led Crew Canada to back-to-back podium finishes on the World Junior Women Golf Championship, successful in 2023 and ending as runners-up earlier this month. They are going to be joined by Psychological Efficiency Coach Justin Fredette (Winnipeg, Man.) and Energy and Conditioning Coach Dr. Emily Wiggin (Dartmouth, N.S.). Tristian Mullally of Dundas, Ont. will proceed because the Head of Nationwide Expertise Identification overseeing the nationwide expertise identification system that was established in 2022. On this function, Mullally supplies assist to a promising group of youthful junior golfers (11 – 16 years previous) and their present teaching groups to develop the pool of future Crew Canada prospects.
Crew Canada – NextGen (Boys) options 4 returning gamers together with 2024 Canadian Junior Boys Championship winner, Isaiah Ibit of Orleans, Ont., Golf Ontario Males’s Novice and Golf Ontario Spring Traditional winner Matthew Javier of North York, Ont., B.C. Novice back-to-back winner Cooper Humphreys from Vernon, B.C. and Ethan Wilson of St. Albert, Alta. They are going to be joined by six newcomers who have been all victorious this season together with Charlie Gillespie of Calgary, Alta. (NextGen Western Championship), Antoine Jasmin of Blainville, Que. (Golf Efficiency Middle Killington Junior Golf Championship), Austin Krahn of Christina Lake, B.C. (Crew Canada – NextGen Choice Camp, B.C. Indigenous Championship, B.C. Junior Boys Championship), Braxton Kuntz of Winnipeg, Man. (Manitoba Males’s Novice Championship), Justin Matthews of Little Britain, Ont. (RBC Canadian Open Ontario Regional Qualifier) and Jager Ache from Woodbridge, Ont. (NextGen Ontario Championship).
Crew Canada – NextGen (Women) options 5 members of Crew Canada from the 2024 World Junior Women Golf Championship. Shauna Liu from Maple, Ont., captured the title on the 2024 Canadian Junior Women Championship, offered by BDO and the Crew Canada -NextGen Choice Camp match to safe her place on the 2025 NextGen squad. Liu added a 3rd title of the yr on the AJGA’s CDW Women Junior All-Star Championship. Becoming a member of Liu are her World Junior Women Crew Canada teammates Clairey Lin of Langley, B.C. and Aphrodite Deng of Calgary, Alta. Each Lin and Deng have gained twice this season on the AJGA. Nobelle Park of Oakville, Ont. joins this system after successful ten tournaments this season together with the inaugural U15 Canadian Championship and three Ontario provincial titles. Park was a part of Crew Canada 2 on the WJG Golf Championship. Teammate Eileen Park of Purple Deer, Alta. returns for her second yr in this system and gained the NextGen Pacific Championship and as soon as on the AJGA. Michelle Xing of Richmond Hill, Ont. returns for her second yr and gained 4 instances in 2024 together with the ORORO PGA Girls’s Championship as a part of the She Performs Golf Championship Collection, the NextGen Ontario Championship and two AJGA tournaments. Two different gamers return this yr together with Anna Huang of Vancouver, B.C. and Swetha Sathish of Oakville, Ont. Two new additions embody two-time AJGA winner, Clara Ding of White Rock, B.C. and Ruihan Kendria Wang of Vancouver, B.C. who gained as soon as on the AJGA in 2024, and completed T3 on the 2024 Canadian Junior Women Championship, offered by BDO.
Crew Canada – NextGen (Boys)
Crew Canada – NextGen (Women)
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