Canada coach Bev Priestman exits a difficult year with a broad smile on her face. The 10th-ranked Canadian women ride into 2024 on a three-game winning streak, having won five of six outings since a disappointing World Cup.
Priestman spent most of the year balancing on a knife-edge. More recently Priestman has had to balance readying her team for next summer's Paris Olympics while honouring captain Christine Sinclair on her farewell tour. "We've had a tough year, a very very tough year," she said after Tuesday's year-ending 1- 0 win over No.
11 Australia in Sinclair's international swan song. "And what matters the most is actually how much we've reapplied ourselves, got back up." "There's been a turn," she added. "And we're on it.
And we're ready for 2024. You can see there's a real bounceback mindset there that this team has been familiar with in the past." Help shape the future of CBC article pages by taking a quick survey.