The whole lot that you must know to get you prepared for the FIH Olympic Qualifier
The time has arrived. The Canadian Wolf Pack is about open its event in opposition to Nice Britain and start the problem of qualifying for the Paris 2024 Olympic Video games. Eight top-ranked groups vying for simply three spots.
Canada earned its place within the event by ending within the high 4 on the Pan American Championships in Santiago in November 2023, setting the stage for an intense showdown in Spain. Positioned in a pool alongside Nice Britain, Spain, and Malaysia, the Canadian staff faces an awesome check on their journey to Olympic qualification.
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FIH Watch Hockey is the Canadian broadcaster of the Olympic Qualifiers. Go to the app or to the browser website to get the pay per view package deal for the lads’s and ladies’s tournaments.
FIH WATCH HOCKEY
Subject Hockey Canada will probably be tweeting match scores and posting all outcomes/photographs and movies on social media.
Match scores and recaps will probably be posted every day on our house web page and our occasion pages.
WOMEN’S FIH OLYMPIC QUALIFIER
Go to the event web page for additional updates on the occasion together with pool standings, occasion outcomes, hyperlinks to movies and field scores.
FIH OLYMPIC QUALIFIER HOME PAGE
TOURNAMENT MILESTONES
Waterloo’s Jordyn Faiczak will play in her fiftieth cap throughout the FIH Olympic Qualifier and Mississauga’s Dani Husar will get her first senior worldwide cap after a embellished profession on the Junior Nationwide Group.
Karli Johansen and Natalie Sourisseau will begin their creep in direction of 200 caps as they’ll end the event with 174 and 179 respectively. Solely 4 Canadian ladies have reached the 200 cap threshold. Sara McManus, lively at 211 caps, second all-time to Kate Wright will solely be 12 matches in need of the Canadian file holder on the finish of the event.
The common cap depend on this senior ladies’s staff is 55 and the typical age is 25, that means it is a younger staff however comes with current big-game expertise. This staff is retuning nearly in-full the Pan American Video games roster and brings again a management core that performed within the 2022 World Cup and Commonwealth Video games.
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STORY NUGGETS
Acquainted foe: The opening match of the event will characteristic Canada dealing with off in opposition to Nice Britain. This would be the first time that Canadian coaches Danny Kerry and Kate Richardson Walsh face off in opposition to their former squad.
Retribution time: For Elise Wong, Kat Leahy, Sara McManus, Karli Johansen, Natalie Sourisseau and Rowan Harris, this event has an additional layer of retribution to it, as they had been all there in 2019 in Dublin when Canada got here up one aim brief in opposition to Eire within the final Olympic qualifying occasion.
Youth Motion: Over half the staff (11 gamers) is beneath the age of 25, a lot of them coming off robust junior and faculty/college careers and already properly into their worldwide careers. In the event that they carry on their trajectory, the staff might have a median cap-count of double and a median age of round 28-30 because the staff heads into the following Olympic quad, with a great deal of expertise from this cycle.
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