u sports

We wrap up the Canadian post-secondary soccer season with a recap of how the Mount Royal Cougars men's team did at USports Nationals and the SAIT Cougars women's team did at CCAA Nationals.  The University of Memphis Tigers women's team and their Calgary contingent continue to roll in the NCAA tournament.  How are Calgarians such as Victor Loturi, Dominick Zator and Caniggia Elva doing in Europe?  We provide a mid-season update.    

We talk a lot of university soccer this week, with the focus being Mount Royal University's historic Canada West triumph.  The Cougars are the first Calgary based team to win the title since the Dinos did in 1980.  We interview head coach Ryan Gyaki and forward David Schaefer as they discuss the final and the U Sports championship tournament this week.  The SAIT Trojans womens team is at Nationals this week and a bunch of Calgarians are involved in the NCAA women's soccer championship tournament.  

 We discuss Cavalry's loss to Forge in the CanPL championship final and look ahead to the CONCACAF Champions Cup draw.   The Wheeldon Trifecta is now complete!  This week we interview Tommy Wheeldon Sr about his time in Calgary with the Storm and Blizzard and what he thinks of Cavalry FC.   There's also a lot of MRU, Dinos and SAIT playoff soccer to review.  We provide some updates from the NCAA regarding the Calgarians playing for the University of Memphis and the University of Maine. 

The Cavs are in the CanPL final this weekend and we preview the matchup vs Forge with Daan Klomp.  Just a couple hours after we recorded this interview, he won CPL Player of the Year and Defender of the Year.  We also chat with Meaghan Wiebe who has been setting goal scoring records with SAIT this year.  Five local school teams are in the playoffs this weekend and we discuss their respective playoff matches.

This week we chat about the Cavs playoff loss against Forge and look ahead to this weekend's matchup against Pacific. We have two interviews this week. Both guests are Calgarians who have scored a lot of goals for their respective teams this year.  Anna Hauer is in her freshman year at the University of Memphis.  Recently she was ranked as the 18th best freshman player in the NCAA. We ask her about playing at the Division 1 level and why she loves going 1 v 1 against defenders.  Grace Mwasalla was having a fantastic year in League 1 Alberta with St. Albert and then with MacEwen University.  However, her season was cut short by a knee injury.  We ask her about her season and get an update on her surgery status and rehab.   

This week, we preview Cavalry FC's playoff match vs Forge FC.  We also talk about last weekend's match and trophy lift celebration.  Comments from Marco Carducci and Tommy Wheeldon Jr from the post-match press conference are included.  Other topics include SAIT, USports, and Calgary West United, who took home 2nd place at U17 Nationals last week.

This episode covers a wide variety of Calgary soccer topics.  We start the week by paying tribute to John Fisher, who was a fixture in the Calgary soccer scene for many years.  Other topics include include Cavalry FC, SAIT and U Sports,  the National U17 championships and the MNT roster.  Our feature interview is with Calgarian Adam Huskic, who has spent the last year in Europe and currently plays for Pargas IF in the Finnish 3rd division.

This week we interview Calgarian Sebastian Dzikowski, who leads U Sports men's soccer with 12 goals for UBC this season.  We also do our Cavalry FC review and update how they could clinich first place this weekend.  Our now weekly update of U21 minutes and a recap of U Sports and ACAC are also included.

We talk about the final two matches of the Cavs' road trip and look ahead to their final four matches of the regular season.  The Cavs U21 minute review is back for another installment.  We catch up with what's been happening in U Sports, ACAC, and the NCAA.

We recap the Cavs big win in Ottawa last weekend and preview their two road matches this week. Our review of Cavs U21 minutes has turned into a weekly segment and we give another update.  The ACAC season starts this weekend and we interview Jess Whyte, assistant coach for the SAIT womens' team. Add in a U Sports update and some Cavs roster moves and we have a lot to talk about.

We discuss the transfer of Goteh Ntignee to FC Annecy (French Ligue 2) and also recap the Cavs victory over Pacific last weekend.  We also review the opening weekend of U Sports soccer.  Our interviews this week focus on U Sports women's soccer with interviews with Mount Royal head coach Tino Fusco and U of C's captain Rachel Barlow.   

We preview the upcoming U Sports men's soccer season and the Crowchild Classic this weekend.  Dinos GK Liam Hunter joins us for an interview.  There's lots of Cavs talk, including a look back at the York match and preview the Pacific match this weekend.  Will the Cavs reach the U21 minutes minimum?  We break down the numbers.  There's also mentions of the AMSL finals, Canada U17 women's matches, and an update on a Calgarian playing abroad.

Interview with Steve Konchalski - Augy and Steve have been closely connected since Canada's "Coach K" recruited him to StFX in 1986. Their conversation focuses on much more than Steve's five decades of Canadian basketball. Coach K discusses what community means to him as he reminisces on his legendary career. This thoughtful reflection takes us from his roots in New York City to Wolfville, Nova Scotia (Acadia University) and ultimately to his long-term hometown community of Antigonish, Nova Scotia (Saint Francis Xavier University)

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