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Canada West (formally the Canada West Universities Athletic Association or CWUAA) is a regional membership association for universities in Western Canada which assists in co-ordinating competition between their university level athletic programs and providing contact information, schedules, results, and releases about those programs and events to the public and the media.
The 2025 U-18 Women's Softball World Cup is the fifteenth edition of the U-18 Women's Softball World Cup, which will be hosted for the first time by three nations. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The tournament, with a history of 42 years and 14 editions, moved to a four-year cycle and changed its competition format in 2024.
The team won bronze at the 2020 Summer Olympics, in Tokyo; this was the fifth Olympics to include softball (no softball in 2012 nor 2016). The team won gold at the 1983 Pan American Games in Caracas and the 2015 Pan American Games in Toronto. The team won bronze at the 2018 World Championship.
The championship has been contested annually since 1948, with the event cancelled only once, in 2021, due to the COVID-19 pandemic. [3]In 1953, the Janet Perkin rink from Regina won the provincial title and the Western Canadian Ladies' Championship, the first organized competition for women that went beyond the province's borders, and which was hosted in Regina. [4]
From 1969 to 1981, the women's collegiate softball championship was also known as the Women's College World Series and was promoted as such. [2] During 1969–1979, the series was played in Omaha, after which the Association for Intercollegiate Athletics for Women (AIAW) held the series in 1980–1982 in Norman, Oklahoma. There were two ...
Following 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.
A championship was held in Canada between several American and Canadian teams in 1952 and 1953. [2] Australia had also hosted an international tournament that predated the first Women's World Championship. [3] [4] In 1965, the first ISF Women's World Championship was held in Melbourne, with games being played at Albert Park.
The 2025 WBSC Men's Softball World Cup will be the 18th Men's Softball World Cup, an international softball tournament. The group stage will take place from 12 June–21 September 2024 in Prince Albert, Canada; Sonora, Mexico; and Oklahoma City, United States.