CIS wrap: UBC’s 27-game undefeated streak comes to an end 9 Sep 2013 UBC’s streak is over. The Thunderbirds are invincible no longer.
USL updates list of Canadian invited to this week’s combine 21 Jan 2013 In total, 13 Canadians will be there — and six of them are products of CIS soccer.
Seven CIS products will go to USL-Pro combine 9 Jan 2013 McMaster University’s Andrew Pastoric, York’s Adrian Pena, UOIT’s Aldo Maiorano, Trinity Western’s Adrian Kekec, Concordia’s Peter Bow, University of the Fraser Valley’s Sasa Plavsic and Cape Breton’s Shayne Hollis will all be heading to Bradenton, Fla. to try and earn contracts in the third division of U.S. soccer.
CIS Wrap: York stunned, final eights set for men’s and women’s nationals 5 Nov 2012 After a weekend of shocks, we have the final eight for both the men’s and women’s national championships.
Canadian midfielder McNamara grows in Dutch-inspired system 20 May 2011 Glen McNamara had hopes that his young son would follow him as a soccer professional. The former All-Canadian goalkeeper from York University began work with his boy, Taylor Mikael, when the kid was a three-year-old. Twenty years later, the younger McNamara has hit the professional circuit like his father – just not at the same position. “When I was young, he always wanted to get me the ball at my feet but every once in a while, he gave me some hand drills,” says McNamara, a midfielder with Dayton Dutch Lions FC of the United Soccer Leagues’ Pro division. “He realized that I wasn’t growing fast enough to be a keeper.”