Northern Lights IC17 squad named
- Wednesday, September 14 2016 @ 10:20 pm ACST
- Contributed by: Troy Thompson
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AFL Canada have named the women's team for the 2017 AFL International Cup in Melbourne. The squad of 30 to pull on the Northern Lights jumper and defend the title includes five members of the IC14 World Team and four players currently playing in Australia.
The will be the team to beat and will be competing for the title against 2014 runners up Ireland as well as the USA, a number of Pacific teams (likely Fiji, Tonga, NZ and PNG) as well as a combined European Crusaders team.
In 2014 a late decision was made to bring a second team to the International Cup but it appears that there will be no second Canadian team in 2017.
The following details of how selection was carried out is from the AFL Canada website.