It’s registration time. Online registration is now open for Spring Junior Season 2017.

Register early (before January 1st) and receive a 10% discount.!!!

Registration will be ongoing, however the deadline is January 31st so that we can submit teams to the league. Alathough we try our best to ensure all can play, we can’t guarantee that that there will be room on teams after January 31st, 2017.

So register today and avoid disappointment!!!
http://www.falcons.ca/forms/13275-Registration-Junior-Season-Spring-2017

Falcons Field Hockey

Field hockey BC annual awards night spotlighted two special under 23 players from Tsawwassen naming Sara McManus Senior Player of the Year while recognizing Rowan Childs as Senior Maple Player of the year. Sara is just 23 but has racked up some amazing achievements since making the senior national team in 2011, including: silver medal at Junior Pan Am Games, qualifying for Junior World Cup, representation at the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow and over 111 International Caps. Rowan Childs on the other hand has made impressive strides this year being named to the Canadian Junior World team competing in Lucknow, India as the youngest player at only 16 after an impressive showing at the India Club tournament back in July. Both players have grown up with the Falcons for most of their Junior Careers and are great embassadors for the sport and the impressive development program The Delta Falcons has continued to nurture with their help. We wish them the best this year in their respective competitions and hope to see them on a streaming service very soon.

Junior World Cup will be streamed starting Dec. 9, 2016. Link with be send out shortly.

Its that time of year again. Come join us for our Annual General Meeting and have your voice heard!

Date: Thursday December 8th, 2016
Time 7:30pm
Location: South Delta Rec Centre – Arctic Room

We are always looking for volunteers to help out on our Executive or in other capacities. In particular, we are looking for someone to coordinate our U11-18 girls. If you are interested, please respond to this email

Look forward to seeing you on the 8th.

On Wednesday, the Government of Canada, in partnership with the Canadian Olympic and Paralympic Committees, hosted more than 250 Canadian athletes and coaches in Ottawa and Gatineau to celebrate their achievements at the Rio 2016 Olympic and Paralympic Games. (See Falcons Mark Pearson at back).

The day kicked off with sport fairs at the University of Ottawa and the Centre sportif de Gatineau, where Olympians and Paralympians engaged local elementary school students in various sport activities to encourage physical activity and sport participation. The morning also included Facebook Live sessions with athletes and students from across Canada.

The athletes and coaches then attended a luncheon hosted by the Honourable Carla Qualtrough, Minister of Sport and Persons with Disabilities, where they received their Olympic and Paralympic rings, presented by Teck and Hillberg & Berk. Petro Canada representatives also made a special presentation of the James Worrall Flag Bearer Awards to Rosie MacLennan, David Eng and Penny Oleksiak (Aurélie Rivard was unable to attend the event).

Finally, the athletes and coaches were welcomed into the House of Commons to be honoured by all members of Parliament, who represent all Canadians across the country. The House rose in extended applause as each athlete paraded across the floor, an honour reserved for only very special guests.

Photo of the celebration taken by Canada’s 2016 Olympic Field Hockey Team:

Girls field hockey takes momentum to next week’s provincial championships.

South Delta Sun Devils battled some strong teams and wet weather to capture last week’s Fraser Valley “AAA” Field Hockey Championship. The girls will return to Surrey for the provincial tournament, starting Wednesday.
A familiar trophy is back in the hands of the South Delta Sun Devils senior girls field hockey team after a two-year hiatus.

The Sun Devils are once again Fraser Valley AAA champions thanks to an unbeaten run last week at Tamanwais Park. South Delta is now gearing up for the provincial “AAA” championships which start Wednesday in Surrey.

“One of the goals we set at the start of the season was to get the trophy back so it’s great to see the girls do it,” said longtime coach Neil McLennan, who has now guided SDSS teams to 17 Fraser Valley titles.

South Delta avenged last year’s championship game loss with a 2-1 victory over longtime rival Gleneagle.

The Devils broke a 1-1 tie with a second half goal then relied on their young defence to hold the fort – especially with the Coquitlam school pouring it on in the dying minutes of the match.

That’s where experience gained at tournaments last month in Duncan and Victoria have paid dividends. The Sun Devils roster features six players in Grade 10 and another in Grade 9 with only three slated to graduate. Two of those Grade 10s are starting defenders.

“Learning to play under pressure and battling your nerves is a big part of it,” continued McLennan. “These girls play club hockey but, emotionally, it’s just a different level with higher expectations in high school. The girls held up well.”

South Delta opened the championships with a win over Riverside then had its hands full with another Coquitlam school – Charles Best – squandering a two-goal lead then managing to pull out a 3-2 victory.

McLennan’s outlook on the provincials is guarded as usual for good reason. Over the years, he has seen teams loaded with seniors not make the expected run towards a podium finish, while others have come out of nowhere to earn a provincial medal.

That was the case two years ago when a young South Delta team lost 3-0 in the Fraser Valley final to Heritage Woods, only to produce a surprising bronze at the B.C. tourney.

The goal is to get through round-robin play with a top two finish in their group and see what happens in the quarter-finals.

“The way the girls are playing right now, a top eight finish is realistic,” added McLennan. “We had a slow start last year in our first game against McMath and it cost us. We have to make sure that doesn’t happen this time.”

The Sun Devils roster features: Grade 12: Kyra Kuramoto, Jess Goodfellow, Annie Poohachoff. Grade 11: Bailey Mitchell, Abi Smart, Katie McCarvill, Kate Knoedler, Aimee Calder, Bri Lyseng. Grade 10 Charlotte Lee, Mady Ajomandi. Aliyah Smith, Eve Carrothers, Elise Ridley, Annika Vaughan. Grade 9: Kayla Guraliuk.

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