Burnaby Central senior and Vancouver Whitecaps residency standout Terrell Smith is headed for NCAA Div. 1 Santa Clara next season. (Bob Frid, Vancouver Whitecaps photo)
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Varsity Letters’ B.C. Recruits List 2017: Men’s and women’s soccer

Welcome to Day 1 of Varsity Letters’ 2017 Recruits List week.

Today, we open with men’s and women’s soccer. The following is our schedule for the rest of the week:

Wednesday, July 5 — Football 

Thursday, July 6 — Volleyball

Friday, July 7 — Basketball

Saturday, July 8 — The entire list, including baseball, cross-country, field hockey, golf, hockey, lacrosse, rowing, rugby, swimming, track and field, and wrestling.

Here’s our list of destinations for precisely 200 men’s and women’s soccer players:

Whitecaps’ residency player and Burnaby Central senior Alan Camacho will suit up for the NCAA Div. 1 Temple Owls next season. (Bob Frid/Vancouver Whitecaps photo)

MEN’S SOCCER
NCAA
DIV. 1
CONNECTICUT
Nic Apostol (5-9 D, Burnaby Central)
LOYOLA (ILL)
Aidan Aylward (6-3 GK, Burnaby Central)
MARQUETTE
Brendan Skinner (6-3 D, Burnaby Central)
MICHIGAN
Joel Harrison (6-0 D, Burnaby Central)
SANTA CLARA
Terrell Smith (6-0 D, Burnaby Central)
TEMPLE
Alan Camcho Soto (5-9 F, Burnaby Central)

DIV. 2
GNAC
SIMON FRASER
Bjorn Borren (5-8 MF/F, Penticton, Dylan Defer (6-1 GK, North Vancouver-Saint Thomas Aquinas), Connor Glennon (5-9 F, Vernon-W.L. Seaton), Christopher Guerreiro (5-9 D, 5-9, Burnaby Central), Joey Mijaljevic (5-11 M, Coquitlam-Dr. Charles Best), Matteo Polisi (5-10 M, Coquitlam-Dr. Charles Best)

U SPORTS
CANADA WEST
FRASER VALLEY
Ravin Aujla (6-0 D, Surrey-Cloverdale Learning Centre), John Kasper (6-2 F, Burnaby Central), Sammy Kajzerek (6-0 D, Surrey-Fraser Heights), Karan Kular (5-10 F, Surrey-Sullivan Heights), Charlie Lovell (6-0 F, Billericay (Eng.)-Seevic College), Parman Minhas (5-9 M, Abbotsford Traditional), Charandeep Rangi (5-10 M, Surrey-Lord Tweedsmuir), Darashpreet Sandhu (6-0 F, Surrey-L.A. Matheson), Tré Spedding (5-9 M, Surrey-Cloverdale Learning Centre), Spencer Williams (5-8 M, Tenby, Wales-Greenhill School)
MACEWAN
Malcolm Stafford (5-8, Chilliwack-Sardis)
SASKATCHEWAN
Joseph Powell (M, Port Coquitlam-Archbishop Carney), Jordan Verones (M, Coquitlam-Dr. Charles Best)
THOMPSON RIVERS
Scott Cramer (5-10 M, Vernon Christian), Harry Khaira (6-1 D, Surrey, Lord Tweedsmuir), Juan Calles (5-9 M/D, Dola (Qatar)-Colegio Maya), Joshua Penny (6-1 F/M, Surrey Christian), Jordell Afonso (5-10 M, Penticton), Anatoli Leveille (5-10 M, Winnipeg-Glengawn Collegiate/REX-Whitecaps Academy), Justin Hansen (6-2 M/D, Williams Lake-Lake City, VV OJC Rasmalen (Holland))
TRINITY WESTERN
Sebastian Colyn (6-0 GK, Langley Christian), Gordon Grice (5-8 M, Burnaby North), Josh Hardy (5-7 D, Burnaby Central, Langara), Kyle Martins (5-5 D, Penticton Christian)
UBC
Rajan Bains (5-10 M, North Surrey), Sam Fletcher (5-10 M, Victoria-Reynolds), Mihai Hodut (6-1 M, Burnaby North), Patrick Izett (5-8 M, Delta-Seaquam), Jora Saran (5-5 M, Surrey-Tamanawis), Victory Shumbusho (5-10 F, Burnaby Central), Harshawn Sidhu (5-8 M, Surrey-L. A. Matheson), Mitchell Whittla (6-3 GK, Victoria-Royal Bay), Kristian Yli-Hietanen (6-1 F, North Vancouver-Sutherland, Capilano University), Sukhjot Binning (6-0 D/M, Surrey-Sullivan Heights)
UBC OKANAGAN
Aaron Mulama (5-8 F, Abbotsford-Yale), Sam McDonald (6-3, D, Kelowna-Okanagan Mission), Taylor Pichie (5-10 M, Kelowna), Jimmy Steel (5-10 M, Salt Spring Island-Gulf Islands)
UNBC
Graeme Lewis (FB, Prince George-Duchess Park), Marko Ilich (GK, Calgary-Crescent Heights), Mason Lidbetter (D, Pitt Meadows), Mitch Linley (D-Fort St. John-North Peace, Joel Watson (M, Victoria-Reynolds)
VICTORIA
Will Adams (5-8 M/F, Victoria-Reynols), Rhys Foster (6-3 D, Nanaimo-Dover Bay), Mark Kaiser (5-9 D, Hong Kong-Canadian International School of Hong Kong), Joshua Lamothe (5-11 D, Victoria-Reynolds)

OUA
MCMASTER
Bryce Millway (5-8 M, Vancouver-Eric Hamber)
QUEEN’S
Carson Ho (6-0 F, Vancouver-Point Grey)
ROYAL MILITARY COLLEGE
Jae-Seok Jeong (5-8 M, Port Coquitlam, Coquitlam Metro-Ford SC), Liam Chambers (5-7 M, Victoria)

AUS
ACADIA
Finbar Kelly (Vancouver-St. George’s)

CCAA
PACWEST
CAPILANO
Puneet Aujla (Surrey-Princess Margaret), Cooper Courvoisier (Port Coquitlam-Terry Fox), Marco Favaro (Vancouver Technical), Brady Hughes (Burnaby Central), Ben MacDonald (North Vancouver-St. Thomas Aquinas), Sam Peters (North Vancouver-Argyle), Max Wahl (North Vancouver-Sutherland)
DOUGLAS
Filip Capek (D, Port Coquitlam-Riverside, Coquitlam Metro Ford), Spencer Jones (M, Coquitlam Metro Ford), Sami Mohammad Kazem (M, Coquitlam Metro Ford), Joel Webb (M, Coquitlam Metro Ford)
LANGARA
Jonah Pang (6-0 MF, Richmond-Steveston-London), MJ John Makoni (6-3 D, Harare (Zimbabwe)-Winwood College), Merlin Fisk (5-9 MF, Vancouver Technical), Devon Sandhu (5-11 D, Burnaby South Secondary), Logan Andrew McRae Hooper (6-1 F, Richmond, R.A. McMath), Colin Hempel (6-1 MF, Vancouver-King George), Aleks Kalajdzic (6-5 GK, Burnaby South), Purmveer Binar (6-1 RW, Abbotsford-W.J Mouat), Stefan Jerkovic (6-2 MF, Burnaby Central Sec)
QUEST
Aidan Haigh (5-7, Saltspring Island-Gulf Islands), Mohamed Hattout (5-9, Cairo (Egypt)-Dr. Nermen Ismail American School), Josef Rebalkin (5-10 Pitt Meadows), James Kerr (6-1, Buena Vista (Colo.)-The Link School), Wylie Suda (6-0, Bellingham–Mt. Baker)

NWAC
SOUTHERWESTERN OREGON C.C.
Liam Bates (GK, Maple Ridge-Thomas Haney)

Panorama Ridge Secondary and Whitecaps elite standout Shanya Dhindsa (left) will suit up for the Washington State Cougars this fall. (Varsity Letters photo by Howard Tsumura)

WOMEN’S SOCCER
NCAA
DIV. 1
ARIZONA STATE
Nikki Panas (6-0 GK, Burnaby Central)
BELMONT
Abby Hunt (5-7 GK, Surrey-Lord Tweedsmuir)
KENT STATE
Faith O’Neill (5-8 GK, Coquitlam-Dr. Charles Best)
NEBRASKA
Natalie Cooke (F, Richmond)
RICE
Ashley Burgess (5-8 M, Surrey-Fleetwood Park)
WASHINGTON STATE
Shanya Dhindsa (5-10 F, Surrey-Panorama Ridge)

Ashley Burgess of Surrey’s Fleetwood Park Dragons will make Houston her new home as she suits up for the Rice Owls in the fall. (Varsity Letters photo by Howard Tsumura)

DIV. 2
GNAC
SIMON FRASER
Mikayla Isobe (5-10 GK, North Vancouver-Sentinel), Claire Bareilles (5-3 M, Eureka (Cal.)-Arcata), Hollis Roeske (5-5 MF, Vancouver-Prince of Wales), Nadia Hakeem (5-6 D, Coquitlam-Gleneagle), Colby Knibbs (5-5 D/F, Calgary-Bishop O’Byrne)

NAIA
COLLEGE OF IDAHO
Emily Aspden (5-4 F/M, Victoria-Lambrick Park, North Idaho College)
ROCKY MOUNTAIN
Yasmina Enneddam (5-5 D/M, Chilliwack-Sardis)

 

U SPORTS
CANADA WEST
FRASER VALLEY
Harneet Dadrao (5-5 M, Surrey-Panorama Ridge), Katrina Frankenberger (5-7 M, Surrey-Fleetwood Park), Kailyn Halvorson (5-6 D, Vernon), Janelle Henke (5-6 M, Surrey-Lord Tweedsmuir), Taylor Nekic (5-7 D, Surrey-Kwantlen Park), Sarah Parker (5-7 F, Surrey-Lord Tweedsmuir), Meghan Rose (5-9 F, Chilliwack-Sardis), Joven Sandhu (5-7 G, Surrey-Sullivan Heights), Tripat Sandhu (5-2 M, Abbotsford-Dasmesh Punjabi), Alyssa Smith (5-6 G, Langley-Walnut Grove, TRU), Mackenzie Toop (5-3 M, Surrey-Panorama Ridge), Raman Bachra (5-6 M, Surrey-Fleetwood Park)
MACEWAN
Brittany Costa (5-3, North Delta-Burnsview)
THOMPSON RIVERS
Emily Mann (5-5 M, South Kamloops), Olivia Bates (5-5 D, Courtenay-G.P Vanier), Camryn Curts (5-6 M,Courtenay-Mark Isfeld), Abbie Simms (5-8 F, Campbell River-Carihi), Rylee Singleterry (5-7 D, Surrey-Clayton Heights), Danielle Robertson (5-5 GK, Courtenay-Mark Isfeld)
TRINITY WESTERN
Aliya Coy (5-6 D, Calgary-Centennial), Emily Killam (6-0 D, Surrey-Elgin Park), Kat Harvey (5-7 F, Coquitlam-Dr. Charles Best), Gina Minervini (5-7 D, Edmonton-St. Francis Xavier), Isabella Roque (5-3 F, Surrey-Holy Cross)
UBC
Melissa Bustos (5-3 M, Winnipeg-Garden City Collegiate), Kassie Kirlik (5-5 D, Surrey-Holy Cross), Tess McRae (5-6 M, Vancouver-Kitsilano), Danielle Steer (5-8 F, Surrey-Elgin Park), Bayley Wachsmuth (5-8 G, North Delta-Sands), Jessica Williams (5-6 D, Surrey-Semiahmoo), Brienna Shaw (5-6 D, Vancouver-Kitsilano, Queen’s)
UBC OKANAGAN
Emma Berwick (5-3 M, Langley Fundamental, Concordia (Mont.), Quest), Kathleen Deady (5-3 M, Surrey-Lord Tweedsmuir), Erica Lampert (5-3 M, Kelowna Christian), Jill Hunt (5-6 C, North Delta-Seaquam), Kacee Ougden (5-3 M, Surrey-Lord Tweedsmuir), Angela Ostrom (5-5 F, Kelowna Christian), Mackenzie Pfof (5-4 F, Port Moody-Heritage Woods), Erica Reis (5-5 M, Port Moody-Heritage Woods); Anastazia Ziros (5-7 D, Vancouver-Point Grey, Langara)
UNBC
Ashley Volk (D, Victoria-Pacific Christian, McKendree), Madi Doyle (GK, Squamish-Howe Sound), Brooke Molby (GK, West Vancouver-Sentinel), Kyra Wallace (M, Penticton), Kaitlyn Chojnacki (M, Victoria-Reynolds), Hallie Nystedt (D, North Saanich-Stelly’s), Mikaela Cadorette (D, Richmond-Hugh McRoberts), Sonja Neitsch (F, Calgary-Crescent Heights), Whitney Anderson (M, Prince George-Westside Academy), Kierstin Vohar (M, Prince George), Hannah Emmond (M, Prince George-Kelly Road)
VICTORIA
Brea Christie (5-5 D/M, Victoria-Royal Bay), Dari Coté (5-5 M/D, Victoria-Ecole Victor Brodeur), Megan Faulkner (5-5 M, Victoria-Reynolds), Savannah Grosse (5-4 M, Lake Oswego (Ore.)), Trinity Kettyls (5-3 F, Victoria-Lambrick Park), Claire McPherson (5-8 D/F, Vancouver-Kitsilano), Eyla Payne (5-4 M, Victoria-Ecole Victor Brodeur), Olivia Proctor (5-6 GK, Edmonton-Ross Sheppard), Avneet Rai (5-9 M, Surrey-Fraser Heights), Megan Reist-Millward (5-5 D/M, Victoria-Mount Douglas), Aislinn Shiomura (5-3 M, Victoria-Reynolds), Alexandra Swoboda (5-6 GK, Bozeman (Mont.))

OUA
ALGOMA
Shayn Campbell (5-7 D/M, Maple Ridge-Westview)
QUEEN’S
Jamie Foot (5-5 M, North Vancouver-Handsworth)
ROYAL MILITARY COLLEGE
Charlotte Mohtadi (5-4 M/F, Comox-Highland)

RSEQ
BISHOPS
Janessa Lane (5-7 M, Victoria-Oak Bay)
CONCORDIA
Maya Scaglione (5-7 F, Vancouver-Kitsilano)

Ritti Lakhanpal (right) of Surrey’s Panorama Ridge Thunder will join Vancouver’s Lanagara College Falcons in the fall. (Varsity Letters photo by Howard Tsumura)

CCAA
PACWEST
CAPILANO
Adrianna Babinski (M, Coquitlam-Dr. Charles Best), Taylor Cahill (M, Langley Fine Arts), Rabiah Dhaliwal (5-3 M/D, Surrey-Panomara Ridge), Gurleen Heer (F, Surrey-Delview), Catrina Olstrom (F, Coquitlam-Centennial), Jaime Petersen (M, North Vancouver-Argyle), Sydney Schmidt (D, Abbotsford-W.J. Mouat), Claire Ye (D, Coquitlam-Charles Best)
DOUGLAS
Sadaf Ataullah Baresh (5-5 D, Port Moody), Neeraj Braich (5-2 D, Surrey-Queen Elizabeth), Ashley Bristow (5-4 D, Burnaby North), Amanda Kristiansen (5-9 F, Coquitlam-Dr. Charles Best), Caitlin Limmayog-Danielson (5-2 F, Surrey-Johnston Heights), Martina Pettenon (5-7 F, Burnaby Mountain), Sneha Sandhu (5-6 M, Surrey-Princess Margaret), Preet Thandi (5-6 D, Surrey-Tamanawis)
LANGARA
Carly Chanda (5-5 M, Vancouver-Sir Winston Churchill), Simran Basra (5-6 G, Surrey-Enver Creek), Zoe Garedakis (5-3 D, North Delta-Burnsview), Kayla Schmit (5-3 M, Vancouver-Sir Winston Churchill), Britney Robertson (5-4 M, North Delta-Delview), Sami Kaltenegger (5-9 D, South Delta), Kayleigh Beaubien (5-5 F, Vancouver-Gladstone), Georgia Walley (5-10 M, Surrey-Holy Cross), Ravneet Sandhar (5-7 D, North Delta), Jagritti Lakhanpal (5-1 D, Surrey-Panorama Ridge)
QUEST
Cailan Gardner (West Vancouver-Sentinel), Camilla Petterson (M, Gypsum (Colo.)-Eagle Valley) VANCOUVER ISLAND
Julia Clarke (5-10 M, Nanaimo-Dover Bay), Shea Battie (5-7 F, Ladysmith), Georgia Nicholls (5-9 M, Ladysmith)

KNOW OF SOMEONE (mens or womens) WHO HAS BEEN MISSED? Send name, high school or transferring university, destination school, height and position to varsitylettersbc@gmail.com

Varsity Letters thanks all of those across the country who have helped put this list together. Locally, special thanks to sports information directors  Wilson Wong (UBC), Steve Frost (Simon Fraser), Graham Matthews (Camosun), Ali Baggott (Victoria), CJ Pentland (Capilano), Mark Janzen and Scott Stewart (TWU), Dylan Thompson (College of the Rockies), Cary Mellon (UBC Okanagan), Matt Kaminski (Columbia Bible College), Larry Read (Thompson Rivers), Brent Dunlop (Vancouver Island), Dan Kinvig (Fraser Valley), Mollie Stelmack (Quest), Rich Abney (UNBC), Carly Scarr (Langara) and Sean Velasco (Douglas College).

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