Eight players from the Vancouver Whitecaps FC Girls Elite BC Soccer REX program have been called up for Canada Soccer’s upcoming Women’s EXCEL camp in Markham, Ontario.
The nine-day camp, which serves as preparation for the 2018 Concacaf Women’s Under-17 Championship in Nicaragua, runs from March 18 to 26 and will be followed by a pre-tournament camp in early April.
“We have brought together a wider group in advance of selecting our 20 players for the Concacaf Women’s Under-17 Championship in April,” said Bev Priestman, Canada Soccer’s Women’s National EXCEL Director U-15 to U-23. “It speaks volumes to the depth of our group who are all now training in our Regional EXCEL Super Centres across Canada.