Women's Futsal News
Blazers Women's Soccer Lock Down Defender Noel Wiebe
The CMU Women's Soccer program is very pleased to announce the commitment of Noel Wiebe for the 2024/25 MCAC season. The team will call on the Dakota Collegiate and BoniVital product to lock down the Blazers' back line when the season starts up in late summer.
The captain for her MHSAA "AAAA" Dakota Lancers team, Wiebe tests her strong defending abilities on her high school squad, who have just recently finished her final WYSA High School Girls' indoor season in the top Premiership Group A of the city-wide league. Directing her teammates in front of her from the defensive side of the ball, Wiebe also utilizes her strong voice on the stage as well, having recently featured in Dakota Collegiate's latest musical "Wicked;" though the multi-talented student-athlete has no plans to study music while at CMU.
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Blazers Women's Soccer Add Positive Force to its 2024/25 Roster
The CMU Women's Soccer program is very pleased to announce the commitment of Victoria Marucci for the 2024/25 MCAC season. The local Oak Park and St Charles Force product will bring plenty of versatility and enthusiasm to the Blazers' lineup this fall.
Playing with the Raiders at nearby Oak Park High School, Victoria recently closed out the team's WYSA high school girls indoor season, where the team played in the top Premiership division. Oak Park has been a goldmine of top talent for the Blazers in recent years, including of course, Victoria's older sister Juliana, who featured on CMU's 2022*23 women's soccer squad, as well as rookie standout Louisa Ibarra Morton from this year's team.
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Blazers Women's Soccer Make a Splash with New Head Coach
CMU Blazers Athletics is very pleased to announce the hiring of Jason Moist to the Women's Soccer program for the upcoming 2024/25 fall season. The Winnipeg native is a highly experienced technical coach with a very strong resume of past and current roles coaching in Manitoba.
The recently named 2023 Club Coach of the Year at Bonivital Soccer Club has a wealth of knowledge of the game, following more than thirty years of playing experience himself. He holds Certified National B, Youth, and Youth Goalkeeping licenses through the Canada Soccer Association, and is working on his US National B license as well as Canada National A license, just to name a few. His qualifications jump off the page as much as his resume of current and past coaching roles, which include positions as Technical Coach and Assistant Coach with the Manitoba Soccer Association's Major League Soccer Vancouver Whitecaps Residency/REX program, Technical Coach with Canadian Premier League Valour FC youth academy program, Assistant Coach with the University of Winnipeg Wesmen women's soccer program, and the aforementioned more than fifteen years of head coach experience with Bonivital Soccer Club.
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Women's Soccer Land Versatile Talent Varias
The CMU Women's Soccer program is very pleased to announce the commitment of Leila Varias for the 2023-24 MCAC season. The Miles Macdonell product will add more versatility to the Blazers' lineup with experience playing all over the pitch throughout her high school and club career thus far.
Playing with the Buckeyes at her Miles Macdonell Collegiate, Varias has shone both in the MHSAA "AAAA" outdoor and WYSA high school girls premiership indoor seasons throughout her time at the school. Since the COVID-19 cancelled seasons, her Buckeyes have gone on to become KPAC Champions in the outdoor season last spring, where Varias featured primarily as a forward on the wing, occasionally dropping back to the midfield when asked. In the indoor premiership she was tasked with controlling the midfield, but still maintained her scoring touch, where she was still able to find the back of the net in the top high school tier in the province.
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Blazers Hand Out Hardware at the 2023 Green & Gold Banquet
Blazers Athletics celebrated the 2022/23 season at their annual Green & Gold Banquet held in the Great Hall at Canadian Mennonite University this past Tuesday, handing out awards for academics, athletic excellence, and good works, while sharing stories of the season's successes on and off the field of play.
This year the Blazers took home one MCAC Championship, that being the women's basketball team's fifth consecutive provincial title, and the team went on to a finals appearance at the NIAC Championships a week later. All eight Blazer teams, including women's and men's futsal made final four appearances at MCAC Championships, with both the men's volleyball and basketball teams making finals as well. The Blazers men's volleyball team peaked at the eighth spot in the CCAA National Volleyball Rankings in mid-February; the highest ranking an MCAC team has achieved in the conference's history thus far over its two years of full participation in the CCAA.
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