Keyano College Huskies women’s soccer team ended the 2011 Alberta Colleges Athletic Conference regular season playing away in Edmonton.

In their opening match Saturday they played the top collegiate team in Canada, losing to the NAIT Ooks 7-0.

“We passed the ball well and with confidence,” Huskies coach Ian Diaz of the contest. “Kennedy Brass and Jamie Hannigan stood out offensively. April Weigelt and Tamara Wilson stood out on the defensive part of the game. Amanda Chalifour was injured and not available. The score was not indicative of the way the Huskies played. The girls fought hard and played with confidence. We had chances and could have scored two or three.”

Sunday the Huskies played No. 11 nationally ranked Grant MacEwan Griffins losing 2-0.

“The Sunday game vs. Grant MacEwan was a way better game. Kennedy Brass and Jamie Hannigan started on the bench. Ryley Halbert got her first start and again we played well and with confidence. We shut down the outside play of Grant Mac having Stephanie Gearie and Lauren Bonokoski played well. Amanda Chalifour played very well and worked extremely hard despite her injury to her knee. She got the player of the game.

“Grant Mac got up one from a free kick that Rebecca Rice should have had. It was a mental mistake that has happen too often with our goalie. Despite that error she played well and held the G-Mac to 1-0 all the way until the 85 minute. I pushed forward and opened up our back line in hopes to creating some offense. We did get one very good chance as Brass sent Hannigan through and beat the goalie but had played the ball too far ahead and was not able to get her full foot around the ball and watched it sail just by the far post. We did manage some more chances but it cost us a second goal as the G-Mac took advantage of us pushing forward.”

The Huskies finish the regular season with two wins, eight losses with five goals for and 40 against.

They now take a break until futsal season.

10/02/2011 - Due to circumstances beyond their control, the bus carrying the Keyano College Huskies men’s and women’s  soccer teams arrived late into the wee-hours of the morning Saturday in Grande Prairie, “around  2 a.m.,” estimated women’s head coach Ian Diaz with a chance to grab only a few hours’ sleep before kick-off time at 2 p.m. for the women’s side.

“The girls were not rested and it showed,” said Diaz of the 9-1 loss to the host Wolves. “It was a series of errors for us in that we actually had three of four “own goals” which did not help the cause.”

Huskies' Stephanie Geary (pictured below) scored her team’s lone goal.

“After Saturday’s game we did our team thing and team dinner and after that I just let the girls relax in the hotel (and no doubt catch up on much needed rest),’ said Diaz. “I told them that it (9-1 loss) is done and let’s put it away now. We need to focus on tomorrow and get your mind at ease.”

The difference was, not a W in the win column, but a close 1-0 loss.

"We played sharp today and they (Wolves) scored off a corner kick as one person forgot their assignment."

Huskies women are now two wins and four losses with five goals for and 20 goals against.

They next host Concordia Thunder Oct 15-16.

Stephanie Geary (No. 9) scored the Huskies lone goal on the weekend

ACAC FEMALE ATHLETE OF THE WEEK

Jamie Hannigan

Keyano Women's Soccer

In a 3-1 win over the visiting The Kings University College Eagles at Corless Field Saturday, Keyano College Huskies women’s soccer midfielder Jamie Hannigan recorded the Huskies second-ever hat trick! Hannigan also scored in a 1-0 victory Sunday against the Eagles.

“I am stoked,” said Hannigan of her two game, four-goal performance weekend. “I couldn’t have done it without the help of my teammates.”

Hannigan made her first rep team at the age of nine playing for the Under 12 Fort McMurray Fury and has represented the Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo in soccer at the Arctic Winter Games.

Huskies have now recorded 4 goals in four game stint and sit at .500 with a record of 2-2. During their 10 years in ACAC play the most goals the Huskies have ever scored in a 10-game regular season is seven in 2005-2006.

Congratulations Jamie for being recognized as the Athlete of the Week

09/24/2010 - Keyano College Huskies are stoked!

“I am stoked,” said Huskies women’s soccer veteran Jamie Hannigan, who scored the lone goal in a 1-0 win this afternoon over the visiting The Kings University College Eagles in Alberta Colleges Athletic Conference regular season play at Corless Field.

Yesterday the Huskies had defeated the Edmonton-based Eagles 3-1 behind a Hannigan hat trick…the first in Huskies soccer history.

“I couldn’t have done it without the help of my teammates,” said Hannigan of the four-goal weekend.

Huskies have now recorded 4 goals in four game stint and sit at .500 with a record of 2-2.

During their 10 years in ACAC play the most goals the Huskies have ever scored in a 10-game regular season is seven in 2005-2006.

Hannigan had scored at the 22 mark of the first half following up on her own shot off the Eagles goal post.

Eagles held the Huskies in their own half for the last six minutes of the first half but were unable to get a clear shot on Huskies goalkeeper Rebecca Rice.

Huskies Kennedy Brass was stopped on two close in attempts in the second half in which the home team played shorthanded for 27 minutes with a red card sending off Alannah Morton.

April Weigelt was named MVP for the Huskies while Eagles Sherry Rosychuk was selected from the visitors who are winless in six games.

Huskies next games are Oct. 1-2 at Grande Prairie Regional College against the Wolves.