Women's Soccer News
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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Caleigh Peden: October's Zueike Female Athlete of the Month
Congratulations to Caleigh Peden of Blazers Women's Soccer on being selected the CMU Zueike Female Athlete of the Month for October. The veteran defender and team captain held down the Blazers' backline all season.
A transfer to the Blazers last season, the Maple Ridge, BC product made an immediate impact on her new squad, leading to her to being named team captain ahead of the outdoor season, which has just recently finished. Peden took the role proudly and has led by example all season, growing her game alonside her teammates and was an instrumental part of the Blazers' third place finish in the MCAC standings.
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Louisa Morton: September's Zueike Female Athlete of the Month
Congratulations to Louisa Morton of Blazers Women's Soccer on being selected the CMU Zueike Female Athlete of the Month for September. The rookie defender has demonstrated a maturity and consistency to her game not normally seen in first year student-athletes.
Morton's play in the first half of the season thus far has been instrumental in putting the Blazers in the playoff picture, with her ability to shut down the opposition's top talents, and helping transition the counter-attack by setting up her strikers downfield. Originally signed for the 2022/23 season, Morton ended up deferring her start for a year and rejoined the team this summer ready to get back into competitive collegiate soccer. She has started all six of the Blazers' games so far this season, and has used her talent and athleticism to control the middle of the pitch.
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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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