UM Todaysoccer – UM Today https://umtoday-wordpress.ad.umanitoba.ca Your Source for University of Manitoba News Tue, 27 Jan 2026 15:13:58 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 CBC Sports: Canadian soccer player Desiree Scott to retire at end of NWSL season https://umtoday-wordpress.ad.umanitoba.ca/cbc-sports-canadian-soccer-player-desiree-scott-to-retire-at-end-of-nwsl-season/ https://umtoday-wordpress.ad.umanitoba.ca/cbc-sports-canadian-soccer-player-desiree-scott-to-retire-at-end-of-nwsl-season/#respond Fri, 18 Oct 2024 17:24:13 +0000 https://news.umanitoba.ca/?p=205133 Canadian soccer player Desiree Scott to retire at end of NWSL season]]> “Desiree Scott is one of the smartest soccer players I have had the pleasure to work with,” Kansas City coach Vlatko Andonovski said in a statement. “More than that, she is possibly the most genuine person I have ever met. She has a true love for the game and everyone around her.

“On the field she will lift up her teammates, while destroying any possible attacks from the opponent, all with the biggest and brightest smile in the stadium.”

Scott also played five years at the University of Manitoba, where she was named team MVP three times and the Bison Sports Female Athlete of the Year in 2009-10.

To read the full story on Desiree’s career and announcement, please visit CBC Sports. 

]]> https://umtoday-wordpress.ad.umanitoba.ca/cbc-sports-canadian-soccer-player-desiree-scott-to-retire-at-end-of-nwsl-season/feed/ 0 Valour FC: “It’s so important for us to get the Indigenous community involved in what we’re trying to build. This jersey helps in that.” https://umtoday-wordpress.ad.umanitoba.ca/valour-fc-its-so-important-for-us-to-get-the-indigenous-community-involved-in-what-were-trying-to-build-this-jersey-helps-in-that/ https://umtoday-wordpress.ad.umanitoba.ca/valour-fc-its-so-important-for-us-to-get-the-indigenous-community-involved-in-what-were-trying-to-build-this-jersey-helps-in-that/#respond Thu, 04 Apr 2024 19:24:22 +0000 https://news.umanitoba.ca/?p=195196 “It’s so important for us to get the Indigenous community involved in what we’re trying to build. This jersey helps in that.”]]> The secondary kit is without question the most-unique and colourful look in Valour’s six-year history. The brainchild of Winnipeg Football Club graphic designer Amanda McWha and with input from the organization’s Director of Indigenous Relations Niigaan Sinclair (professor of Indigenous Studies at the UM), the black jersey is dominated by a sunflower at its the centre, with the Prairie Crocus featured on the kit’s four corners. Featured throughout the jersey are patterns and lines which recognize ‘the dynamic and deep contributions to art, science, and knowledge by the first peoples to our home province.’

To read more about this story, please visit Valour FC. 

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