Calgary Wild bring in Forest Lawn students for club's first home game on Sunday

Students at a Forest Lawn school will get some of the best seats in the house when pro women's soccer arrives in Calgary this weekend.

Calgary Wild FC goalkeeper Sarah Keilty-Dilling visited Ian Bazalgette School in the city's southeast this week to launch the Keepers Corner campaign. Now a goalkeeper herself for Alberta's first pro women's soccer team, a founding club in the Northern Super League, Keilty-Dilling previously taught physical education at Ian Bazalgette.

Keepers Corner is an initiative through which Wild goalies will donate 20 tickets to the school for each of the club's 13 games at McMahon Stadium, where the club will make its home debut on Sunday against Ottawa Rapid FC.

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"The kids at the school and the kids in this area are historically underprivileged and undervalued, and I see so much potential and value in these kids," said Keilty-Dilling, who visited the school alongside Wild midfielder Sonia O'Neill and goalkeeper Stephanie Bukovec.

The initiative will seat students from the program in a Keepers Corner section of the stadium by the home team's net. Following the game, students will get to meet the goalies.

Bazalgette principal Steven Pike considers Keilty-Dilling, who has committed to regularly visiting the school, an inspiration to students.

"I think professional sports is a good platform to give people an idea that there are opportunities in life," he said. "Especially in Canada, as long as you work hard and you pursue things, you can gain a lot of those opportunities."

After Keilty-Dilling, 31, got her start with the Calgary South West United and Chinook FC youth clubs, she joined