Doug Tate Selects 2024

Island U18 Team Named as Doug Tate Selects to Face UVic Jutes in Two Match Series – Weekend Match Postponed

[note due to snow in Victoria the January 20th matches have been postponed, Vikes vs CWU is postponed until Tuesday, January 23^rd at 1pm, Jutes vs DTS is postponed until Saturday, January 27^th at 1pm]

This UVic initiative looks like a keeper and hopefully will become an annual event. UVic coaching staff were looking for extra games for their Jutes team, that’s their 3rd squad, made up of first year players, basically the 18 year old age group.

They invited 25 high school players, basically a South/Mid Island U18 All Star team, to provide the opposition. They got Eddie Evans and Xtreme to make jerseys for them, which they’ll get to keep as a memento. Hence was born the Doug Tate Selects. It seems a win-win situation, give elite high school athletes an early start to their spring season and involve the 5 island clubs who run U18 programs, CW, JBAA, Westshore, Salish, Cowichan. The young university players get to test themselves against the next wave of first year students. Kudos to Scott Manning and crew for coming up with this, now we hope the weather will co-operate.

This Saturday (20th) will see the Doug Tate Selects vs UVic Jutes at 11am as a curtain raiser to the UVic v CWU (Central Washington University) match. On February 10th the second game will kickoff at 12:45pm as the curtain raiser to UVic v Pacific Pride game. [note the change in date of second match]

Here are the rosters for the teams:

Doug Tate Selects

UVic Jutes

*Unavailable for selection