Vancouver, BC – Twenty member squad of Canada’s women’s national field hockey team will travel overseas for a series of seven matches versus England and Wales from April 27 to May 7 in the preparations for the key competitions including Glasgow Commonwealth Games later this year.
In facing England, Canada will be taking on a team ranked number three in the world and which is in the final stages of preparation for the World Cup this summer.
“Against teams like England, you have no place to hide and this kind of exposure will test both our on-field and off-field systems,” says women’s national team head coach Ian Rutledge. Continue reading →