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Over the years, the Canada Cup has evolved into one of the most prestigious international softball tournaments. Today, the competition is split among four separate tournaments:
Canada Cup: Showcase event, featuring the top women's teams globally
Canada Cup Futures: featuring about 30 of the top U19 teams globally
Although a number of US and Japanese club teams have competed in the Canada Cup, the showcase event has evolved primarily into a national team competition between the following countries:
This tournament enjoys strong local support with hundreds of community volunteers. Each team is assigned a bat girl from one of the local teams plus a family support liaison from the community. Another unusual part of this tournament is the concurrent co-ed Slow-Pitch Friendship Division tournament for developmentally disabled adults which is run at the same site as the premier International Women's Fastpitch tournament. You can watch both at the same time.
canada, international, softball, championship, this, article, needs, updated, please, help, update, this, article, reflect, recent, events, newly, available, information, last, update, july, 2015, 2022, canada, annual, international, women, softball, tournamen. This article needs to be updated Please help update this article to reflect recent events or newly available information Last update 16 July 2015 May 2022 The Canada Cup is an annual international women s softball tournament held at the Softball City Complex in South Surrey British Columbia Format editFollowing an announcement on June 13 1991 by the International Softball Federation that women s fastpitch was being made a full medal sport at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta the Canada Cup was created to provide the Canadian national softball team with a world calibre team competition in order to help prepare for Olympic qualifying Over the years the Canada Cup has evolved into one of the most prestigious international softball tournaments Today the competition is split among four separate tournaments Canada Cup Showcase event featuring the top women s teams globally Canada Cup Futures featuring about 30 of the top U19 teams globally Canada Cup Showcase featuring top U16 teams Canada Cup Special O a mixed Special Olympics DivisionAlthough a number of US and Japanese club teams have competed in the Canada Cup the showcase event has evolved primarily into a national team competition between the following countries nbsp Australia nbsp China nbsp Canada nbsp Chinese Taipei nbsp Japan nbsp Netherlands nbsp Puerto Rico nbsp VenezuelaThis tournament enjoys strong local support with hundreds of community volunteers Each team is assigned a bat girl from one of the local teams plus a family support liaison from the community Another unusual part of this tournament is the concurrent co ed Slow Pitch Friendship Division tournament for developmentally disabled adults which is run at the same site as the premier International Women s Fastpitch tournament You can watch both at the same time Tournament History editYear Champions Runners up Attendance1993 Redding Rebels 43 9681994 Redding Rebels 56 8291995 California Commotion 70 1081996 nbsp Canada 79 1361998 nbsp Australia 95 8691999 nbsp United States Gold nbsp Australia 100 4192000 nbsp Australia nbsp China 109 8142001 nbsp Japan Red nbsp Australia 110 3462002 nbsp United States World nbsp United States Elite 122 5042003 nbsp United States Elite nbsp Australia 113 9162004 nbsp Japan nbsp Australia 91 2012005 nbsp Australia nbsp United States Elite 105 8562006 nbsp Australia nbsp Canada 112 6762007 nbsp United States nbsp Japan 119 3012008 nbsp Japan nbsp Australia 102 6472009 nbsp United States nbsp Canada N A2010 Cancelled2011 nbsp United States nbsp Japan N A2012 nbsp Japan nbsp United States N A2013 nbsp Japan nbsp Australia N A2014 nbsp Japan nbsp United States N A2022 nbsp United States T C Colorado N AExternal links editOfficial site Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Canada Cup International Softball Championship amp oldid 1095234536, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
