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Photo credit: Northwestern Polytechnic website.
By Curtis Galbraith
Local Sports

Wolves soccer at home this weekend for the ACAC championships

Oct 24, 2024 | 5:38 PM

The Northwestern Polytechnic Wolves are hosting the ACAC soccer championships this weekend.

Wolves women’s coach Catherine Ridgeway calls the chance to host this event “massive.”

“Not just for us, but I would say the whole soccer community. The best players in the province will be up here in Grande Prairie and its a great opportunity to inspire the younger generation.”

Ridgeway says her team loves the weather being like it has been lately.

“I’m really lucky to have a handful of local recruits and us northern girls are tough and we’re really leaning into that to give us a competitive advantage.”

“That resilience is rubbing off on the whole team and we’re actually hoping for some tough weather conditions. We think that gives us an advantage.”

Ridgeway says her team had a big final weekend of the regular season and has been working on coming together as a team and getting mentally prepared.

Ridgeway is hoping the entire soccer community in the north comes out this weekend.

“You know, especially those families with young soccer stars. We hope this moment is an opportunity for them to dream and imagine themselves playing for the Wolves one day at a championship.”

“That representation is so important and for young athletes to see local players playing on this big stage, it can really make a big impact. So, I’m just hoping everybody gets out.”

Photo credit: Northwestern Polytechnic website.

Games will start Friday at 10 a.m. when the Wolves men’s team plays SAIT.

That will be followed by a women’s game between Lethbridge Polytechnic and Keyano College at 12:30 and another men’s game between Lethbridge and Keyano at 3 p.m.

The Wolves women’s team will take on Red Deer Polytechnic at 5:30 p.m.

The semi-finals are set for Saturday.

On the women’s side, the winner between Lethbridge and Keyano plays SAIT at 10 a.m. The winner between NWP and Red Deer takes on Concordia University of Edmonton at 3 p.m.

In the men’s semi-finals, the winner between the Wolves and SAIT faces NAIT at 12:30 p.m. Saturday. The winner between Lethbridge and Keyano plays Red Deer at 5:30 p.m.

Sunday’s games start at 10 a.m with the women’s bronze medal game, then the men’s bronze medal game at 12:30, the women’s gold medal game at 3 p.m. and the men’s bronze medal game at 5:30.

All games will be played at CKC Field.

While soccer is hosting provincials, the Wolves cross-country running team will be in Calgary for its provincial championships.

The event will take place Saturday afternoon.

St. Mary’s University will be the host school.

Photo credit: Northwestern Polytechnic website.
by Curtis Galbraith