Development of young players a silver lining to Kamloops United women’s team’s season

KAMLOOPS — This weekend is a scheduled bye week for Kamloops United, who are in the final stretch of their season. Both the men’s and women’s teams have identical records of 1-8-2, good for eighth place in the BC Premier League. Although a chance for a league title is long gone, both teams want to close out the season strong.

The Kamloops United women’s squad has some time to regroup after its 3-1 loss to Unity FC on Friday (June 12). It ends a two-game point streak for the team and although there were no victories in that stretch, positives were shown.

“We had two ties and then one loss last weekend but the two ties were great results for us,” Aliyah Deneault told CFJC Sports. “We lost to those two teams previosuly and then came back and tied them so it was great just to see the progress and not be consistently losing to those teams. It just shows as we work together more, maybe the next few we can start getting more wins.”