Besides competing in the local ETIAC high school league, our senior varsity teams participate in their home invitational as well as the annual Canadian Accredited Independent Schools (CAIS) tournaments, which the team hosted in 2024.
While we were definitely the underdog going into this all-important semifinal clash vs Alexander Galt, I felt we had a legitimate shot to pull off the upset. We just had to avoid bad luck, and have a few bounces go our way. Hey, if we could do it in 2022 (the legendary Friday Nite Lights victory over these same Pipers), we could do it again in 2024. Lightning CAN strike twice. Happens all the time with lightning rods, doesn’t it?
I love how CAIS 2024 started – 7:45 am Thursday morning, freezing cold, -1o C, field a slick, white carpet of frost, and your Spartans are the first team out there warming up, the whole campus to ourselves. A neat boarding school scene I won’t soon forget.
Stanstead College is hosting the Canadian Accredited Independent Schools (CAIS) Senior Girls Soccer Tournament this week, with 18 schools from across the country represented.