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Trio Selected for Canada's Fall Festival
9/5/2018 10:05:00 PM | Women's Hockey
Sarah Potomak, Amy Potomak, and Olivia Knowles have been invited to attend Canada’s National Women’s Team Fall Festival.
MINNEAPOLIS -- Gophers Sarah Potomak, Amy Potomak, and Olivia Knowles are among the 59 national team hopefuls invited to attend Canada's National Women's Team Fall Festival, an annual training camp aimed at helping develop and evaluate the nation's top female hockey players. The Fall Festival will be held Sept. 8-16 at the Encana Events Center in Dawson Creek, British Columbia.
The Fall Festival will see national team prospects split into two squads – Team Red and Team White – to train and compete against each other as well as against local teams over their six-day stay in the Peace Region.
Over the summer, S. Potomak, A. Potomak, and Knowles attended Canada's National Women's Development Team selection camp, which was part of the Team Canada Summer Showcase. S. Potomak then served as an alternate captain for Canada's National Women's Development Team in the annual Under-22 Series against the United States.
Player selections for the Fall Festival were led by Gina Kingsbury (Rouyn-Noranda, Que.), Hockey Canada's director of national teams, along with head scout, Melody Davidson (Oyen, Alta.).
"We're beginning a new Olympic quad, and a new season, and it's exciting to see such a strong talent pool as we head into our national team Fall Festival in Dawson Creek," said Kingsbury, who was a player within Hockey Canada's national women's team program from 1999 until her retirement in 2010. "Fall Festival allows Hockey Canada to provide continued development opportunities, especially for those players who were with us in August at the development team camp, while replicating a short-term competition schedule that allows us to evaluate the players in a way that more closely resembles the experience they would have at a 4 Nations Cup or IIHF Women's World Championship, which is what they're aspiring to achieve."
All Fall Festival practices are free and open to the public; tickets for the games can be purchased online.
The 2018-19 season will see Canada's National Women's Team face off against Finland, Sweden, and the United States on home ice Nov. 6-10 when Saskatoon hosts the Four Nations Cup, and culminate with the 2019 IIHF Women's World Championship, April 4-14, in Espoo, Finland. Rosters will be announced in the lead-up to those respective events.
For more information on Hockey Canada and Canada's National Women's Team Program, please visit HockeyCanada.ca.
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The Fall Festival will see national team prospects split into two squads – Team Red and Team White – to train and compete against each other as well as against local teams over their six-day stay in the Peace Region.
Over the summer, S. Potomak, A. Potomak, and Knowles attended Canada's National Women's Development Team selection camp, which was part of the Team Canada Summer Showcase. S. Potomak then served as an alternate captain for Canada's National Women's Development Team in the annual Under-22 Series against the United States.
Player selections for the Fall Festival were led by Gina Kingsbury (Rouyn-Noranda, Que.), Hockey Canada's director of national teams, along with head scout, Melody Davidson (Oyen, Alta.).
"We're beginning a new Olympic quad, and a new season, and it's exciting to see such a strong talent pool as we head into our national team Fall Festival in Dawson Creek," said Kingsbury, who was a player within Hockey Canada's national women's team program from 1999 until her retirement in 2010. "Fall Festival allows Hockey Canada to provide continued development opportunities, especially for those players who were with us in August at the development team camp, while replicating a short-term competition schedule that allows us to evaluate the players in a way that more closely resembles the experience they would have at a 4 Nations Cup or IIHF Women's World Championship, which is what they're aspiring to achieve."
All Fall Festival practices are free and open to the public; tickets for the games can be purchased online.
The 2018-19 season will see Canada's National Women's Team face off against Finland, Sweden, and the United States on home ice Nov. 6-10 when Saskatoon hosts the Four Nations Cup, and culminate with the 2019 IIHF Women's World Championship, April 4-14, in Espoo, Finland. Rosters will be announced in the lead-up to those respective events.
For more information on Hockey Canada and Canada's National Women's Team Program, please visit HockeyCanada.ca.
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