DaTe eVeNT
maY 24-25 annual Icebreaker Girls Canada’s
(Mini, Youth)
www.ottawasoccer.com/icebreaker
toughest girl’s
maY 30-June 1 annual Icebreaker Boys
(Mini, Youth)
www.ottawasoccer.com/icebreaker
tournament
pat o'kane Cup
(Senior)
national Capital invitational
http://patokane.e2esoccer.com
August Tournament
June 7-8 Mini World Cup 2008
(Mini) BY george BenneTT
www.fccapitalunited.com
June 14-15 Nepean Hotspurs friendship
Locally known as Nat Cap or NCI, the National Capital
(Mini, Youth)
Invitational Girls Soccer Tournament exists thanks to the
www.hotspurs.on.ca
dedicated single-mindedness of John and Noreen Whitton
osu Mini Girls Challenge Cup
and their children who conceived, planned, organized and
(Mini)
operated Nat Cap since in 1983. The ever-expanding multi-
www.osusoccer.com
club tournament attracts “la crème de la crème” of teams to
June 21 Just for the fun of it
a three-day August celebration of female soccer.
(Senior, Womens Open)
Teams from all over the United States, across Canada and
www.cpsc.carletonplace.com/tournaments.html
from as far away as Sweden, Russia, Finland, France, England
June 28-29 CusC snakebite and India have all come to test themselves against the best in
(Mini) North America,
www.cumberlandsoccer.com
in what has
JulY 5-6 Gloucester Boys International
become known
(Mini, Youth, Senior)
as the toughest
www.gloucesterhornets.ca girl’s tournament
JulY 12-13 osu Mini Boys Challenge Cup
in Canada.
(Mini)
The goal of
www.osusoccer.com
the Nat Cap is to
JulY 18-20 Girls Mississippi Invitational
offer our best
(Mini, Youth)
local teams an
www.cpmist.ca
opportunity to
experience “first-
JulY 26-27 25th James D. Canuel Memorial
foot” top-level
(Senior)
www.pusc.ca/canuel/index.htm
competition. The
growth in quality that this area has seen and continues to see
augusT 2-4 National Capital Invitational
T
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AP
in girls’ soccer is partially due to the annual exposure to high
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(Youth)
quality soccer competition that Nat Cap represents. It has
www.ottawasoccer.com/NCI
helped players, coaches and parents to collectively see the
TIONALS
augusT 8-10 Gloucester Girls International
huge possibilities that exist in the girls'’s game and to realize
(Mini, Youth, Senior)
the developmental goals that can be achieved.
INTERNA
www.gloucesterhornets.ca
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Nat Cap lost a bit of its gloss following John and Noreen’s
PHO
augusT 9-10 kickin in the Capital Boys
retirement; it lay dormant from 2005-06. However, with the
(Mini, Youth)
assistance of eight local clubs (Ottawa South United, Nepean
http://28412.vws.magma.ca/Home.asp
Hotspurs, Goulbourn, Gloucester Hornets, Kanata, Capital
augusT 15-17 Boys Mississippi Invitational United, Cumberland United and the Ottawa Internationals),
(Mini, Youth) Canada’s toughest girl’s tournament has returned and is
www.cpmist.ca again serving as a learning tool through which our local teams
augusT 23-24 russell soccer Tournament
can gauge their success.
(Mini)
Registration for this year’s tournament (the 24th edition),
www.russellsoccer.com which takes place on August 2-3-4 already exceeds last
sePTemBer 6-7 kickin in the Capital Girls
year’s total. There will be competition for seven age groups
(Mini, Youth)
(U-12 to U-18). As well, the calibre of this year’s participating
http://28412.vws.magma.ca/Home.asp teams is expected to surpass even last year’s high quality.
NCIsL Tournament
For more information and schedules, visit the Nat Cap
(Senior)
website:
http://ottawasoccer.com/NCI.
www.ncisl.com
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www.Kickabout.ca
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