By Randy Merkley

 

Chilliwack, B.C. - The University of the Fraser Valley Cascades women’s basketball team is traveling to Antigua to participated in a training camp and play several exhibition scrimmages against local post-secondary teams.  The Cascades will be joining Instructor Joanna Sheppard, an Instructor, in the UFV Kinesiology and Physical Education Department, as Joanna embarks on her third trip to the Caribbean to teach her course on "Champions for Health Promoting Schools."  The trip is scheduled for the month of May, 2011 the women’s basketball team is going for approximately 10 days.　

The women’s basketball team, under Head Coach Al Tuchscherer, traveled to China for 17 days, in the spring of 2004. The Cascades visited Chegdu and Beijing on their China trip.  "I am looking forward to the post season trip to Antigua’" said Tuchscherer. The Cascades finished the 2010-11 Canada West regular season, with a 12-12 record and went on to earn a berth in the Canada West "Final Four" by sweeping the University of Winnipeg, two straight and then earning a berth in the inaugural CIS Regional National tournament, where they lost to the University of Toronto, 78-69, at Fredericton, NB.　

 

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