In a briefly worded statement, the Fury announced that it will no longer be fielding a team in the W-League.

“I just jogged in there and it was the best feeling in the whole entire world. I didn’t have any tears because I think I sweated them all out.”

“It’s great to win, it’s great to win in front of our fans and it’s great to be back in the final,” Fury coach Dom Oliveri said.

The club announced that American forward Meghan Lenczyk will join reigning W-League MVP Mallory Outerbridge in the attack. Lenczyk was the 14th overall selection in 2011 WPS draft, and played in 14 games for the Atlanta Beat, scoring twice.

Win or lose on Sunday, the Ottawa Fury is Canada’s team of the year. In any sport. Oh, surely, when the Canadian Press gets votes from sports editors across the country for its Team of the Year, the Fury might only get a nod from someone in the nation’s capital and will be widely ignored by everyone else. But, when 2011 comes to a close, the Fury deserve to rank with any of the hockey teams that traditionally dominate that vote.

Mallory Outerbridge, who led the Ottawa Fury to an undefeated run through the regular season and the Central Conference championship, was named the league MVP. This wasn’t a surprise; Outerbridge led all of the W-League with 17 goals in 12 regular-season games.

The Fury earned the right to go to the W-League’s final four in Seattle by beating the No. 4 seed Toronto Lady Lynx 4-0 on Saturday and crushing the Quebec City Amiral 6-0 in Sunday’s conference final at Ottawa’s Algonquin College.

To say that the Ottawa Fury are the favourites to take the W-League Central Conference championship this weekend would actually be a bit of an understatement. The Fury is coming off a perfect 12-0-0 season as the club hosts the Toronto Lady Lynx, the No. 4 seed in the conference, on Saturday. On Sunday, the winner faces the victor of the other semifinal between Laval and Quebec City.