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Three teams – the Rangers, the Devils and the Royals were at the forefront of an important step for girls soccer in 1981.
For the first time in the Vancouver Sun soccer tournament history, girls were invited to compete in 1981. The Sun tourney at the time functioned as a minor soccer provincial championship with the winners featured prominently in the pages of the newspaper.
The Coquitlam club made a bold statement that year, sweeping three of the top divisions: the Rangers won Div. 1, the Devils took Div. 2, and the Royals captured Div. 3.
The first-ever Sun Soccer Girl, recognizing the tournament’s top girls player, was the Rangers’ Jane Norman, with the Royals’ Karen Daws the runner-up.
The Blue Mountain troupe would also fill out half the all-star team. The sweep by the Coquitlam club was an instrumental part in the acknowledgment that girls soccer was deserving of serious consideration and strong representation in both time and funding.