First the city, then the nation.
St. Timothy School Thunder senior girl’s soccer player Seela Wulff wound up on the short end of a 4-1 loss at the Calgary Senior High School Athletic Association Selects game Sept. 26 in Calgary.
“It was good. I was on the North team and we lost,” Wulff said of the Selects game at Southern Alberta Institute of Technology. “But it was a lot of fun. It was really good. I actually knew quite a few girls from club, who I ended up playing with. So it was really good.”
She’s now visiting the outer reaches of Canada’s eastern shores for the national under-16-year-old (U16) girl’s club soccer championships. Wulff, and her Calgary South West United Premiers 98 Tier 1 team stepped off the plane in Newfoundland on Oct. 6 to take another kick at a national title. Second at the same tournament last year in Kamloops, Wulff’s Calgary U16 club team is going for it all at this year’s tournament Oct. 8-13 in Mt. Pearl, where 12 teams are divided into four, three-team pools. Wulff’s Calgary side is in Pool B with Manitoba and Yukon.
“We’re going to be there for almost 10 days,” she said of her tournament trip. “There will be teams we’ve played before. We actually have a really nice pool of teams hopefully we’ll be able to beat. I think we have a good shot at doing well.”
Having wrapped up her high school Selects appearance, she’s changing back into her club boots. In high school she’s a striker. For Caglary SWU, she’s a fullback. And there are other variances between her soccer teams.
“It’s quite a big difference. Especially with me training every day almost for my club. We don’t train as often for high school,” Wulff noted. “The season’s way shorter in high school. I never stop training in club. We run about a month and a half in high school soccer. It’s more fun and just more about having fun with high school soccer.”
The national U16 girl’s soccer tournament wraps up Oct. 13.
