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<\/a>\u201c[Some] of the guys from the Sport Management program, we wanted to make a team… a community. There is such a beautiful field but nobody is using it,\u201d says club co-founder Kanai. \u201cInternational students are so lonely here, they do not have families here like me, so we wanted to make this community like a home where they can make friends and connections, and a lot of people have told us that they have made a lot of friends through this club.\u201d<\/p>\n
The club\u2019s drop-in sessions are inclusive, looking to provide a welcoming environment for students interested in soccer.<\/p>\n
\u201cLast September is when it kicked off\u2026 we started from scratch,\u201d says club head coach Aidan Walt. \u201cWe have a competitive team that plays in the men\u2019s league in the Vancouver Island Soccer League [VISL], and we have our recreational program, which currently is just drop-in sessions once a week. [These] sessions are open to anyone of any skill level, just come out, have some fun, enjoy your time, and enjoy playing soccer.\u201d<\/p>\n
While the club is thriving, with many people dropping in to sessions, they\u2019re also looking to create a women\u2019s team.<\/p>\n
\u201cOur main goal for this year, number one, when it comes to the recreational side of our program, is [to build] a women\u2019s team,\u201d says Walt. \u201cWe need a new women\u2019s director, so we need the interest to be driven\u2026 and then we can throw in a team into Gorge [United Soccer Club]. We are affiliated on the competitive side with Gorge United Soccer Club here in Victoria and a part of our negotiation with them was that we would be able to also put a women\u2019s team and they said yes.\u201d<\/p>\n
Although the club is working toward establishing a women\u2019s team, that doesn\u2019t mean women cannot play currently. In fact, the Camosun Student Soccer Club is committed to welcoming players of all genders.<\/p>\n
\u201cCurrently, we actually have a woman on our team, her name is Emma [Lamberton]. We insist on inclusiveness; we do not care about gender or anything,\u201d says Walt. \u201cShe is only the third woman ever to play in the VISL. We have had a lot of support and the community has come together over the inclusiveness of our program.\u201d<\/p>\n
Furthermore, the Camosun Soccer Club has big plans for the near future, particularly when it comes to recreational opportunities like tournaments between students to grow the soccer community at the college.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have so many things planned that we want to do,\u201d says Walt. \u201cWe want to add a second day to our drop-in [sessions] at Lansdowne campus, and once that gets going, we\u2019re going to start talking about an intramural league come January. UVic has one of the biggest intramural leagues I\u2019ve heard of; they are huge, there are like 14 teams in the league, of just students who come out to play, and we figured, why not Camosun students?\u201d<\/p>\n
The club\u2019s competitive team\u2019s home field is Hampton Park and their schedule is available on the club\u2019s Instagram page<\/a> or the VISL website<\/a>. The drop-in sessions are on Fridays from 2:00 pm to 3:00 pm at the Pacific Institute for Sport Education at Interurban; the club has a $20 fee for practices per semester.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Soccer lovers at Camosun College can now play at school, thanks to the Camosun Student Soccer Club. The club was created to allow students of all skill levels to play the world\u2019s most popular sport right on campus. So, whether you\u2019re a seasoned player or are just looking for a fun way to stay active, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":25879,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,319],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus","category-october-16-2024"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25878"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25878\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25880,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25878\/revisions\/25880"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}