Rhian Wilkinson's Official Website

Welcome to my website. Since 1st March 2006, when we started the site we have received over 55,000 hits. Thank you. There is a real demand for news on the National Women's Team.

I have played soccer since I was 5 years old, and have been fortunate to play for some excellent teams from around the world. I will provide regular news, not just about what is happening in Canadian soccer, but insights into what it means to be a woman soccer player in the Canadian Soccer Association.

I have written on my early soccer years in Quebec Soccer, my NCAA soccer career with the Lady Vols of the University of Tennessee, the W. League's Ottawa Fury and Norway's Team Strommen of the Topserrien league. Please let me know if there is other news you would like to see on my site, and please keep visiting as often as possible.

             Latest News Updates:

RHIAN'S SOCCER JOURNALS:

WASHINGTON DC PREPARATION       8th May 2008

So, we are on our way to play against the United States again, this time in Washington DC. The flight yesterday went well. It was a long day, but we got here eventually. We flew through Montreal, and so I was excited about this. However, the visit ended up being a bit of a bust.

First, the flight was bumpy and then in Montreal it was teeming with rain. Then, we found that every single store in Dorval's Pierre Elliott Trudeau airport was closed. We had landed in Montreal at 7:30pm !!!! Even the Starbucks was shut, and so we had a situation which many of the ladies on the team associate with the end of the world. READ MORE

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WORLD CLASS ATHLETES MAKE JOURNEY BACK TO SCHOOL

27th April 2008

By Mark Lidbetter, The Suburban Newspaper

When Rhian Wilkinson and Tara Campbell got together last Tuesday morning at Dorset Elementary School in Baie d’Urfé, it was like the former classmates had just been together the day before. They picked up right where they left off even though it had been some time that these two world-class athletes had seen each other.

Wilkinson, of the Canadian National women’s soccer team, and Campbell of the women’s National water polo squad made the time to pay a visit to their former elementary school as part of its 50th anniversary celebrations, where they could reminisce and address the students. READ MORE

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RESIDENTIAL CAMP RESUMES   3rd May 2008

The last few days of my two and a half week break were hectic, but great. On 25th April, I left Montreal to visit a friend in Fredericton N.B. The problem with being a soccer player is that sometimes we have such a busy and arbitrary schedule that any breaks we get may not fit in with those of friends who are working.

On this occasion, I imposed on one of my oldest friends, Laura, who now teaches in Fredericton, New Brunswick,   READ MORE

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CANADA TO PLAY AUSTRALIA IN OLYMPICS WARM UP

22nd May 2008

From a CSA Report

Canada is getting its rematch. Canada’s women’s national team announced today that it will face Australia in an international friendly on 23 May in Sydney. It will be Canada’s first contest with the Australians since a 2:2 draw at last September’s FIFA Women’s World Cup China 2007, a draw that in essence eliminated Canada from the competition. READ MORE