Charmaine Crooks elected Canada Soccer president at annual meeting

Charmaine Crooks has been elected president of Canada Soccer.

The former Olympian beat out former Canada Soccer vice-president Rob Newman for the highest elected job on the governing physique’s annual assembly.

Crooks was elevated to interim president from vice-president in late February after Nick Bontis resigned, acknowledging change was wanted to realize labour peace with the Canadian males’s and ladies’s nationwide groups.

Canada Soccer’s annual assembly of the members runs by means of Sunday in Saint John.

Crooks, a five-time Olympian who earned silver within the 4×400 monitor relay on the 1984 Los Angeles Games, has been on the Canada Soccer board since 2012-13 and served as vice-president since January 2021.

Newman served on Canada Soccer’s board for 10 years (2002-03 to 2011-12), together with 4 years as vice-president (2008-09 to 2011-12). A former president of Saskatchewan Soccer, he’s at the moment president and CEO of B.C. Sport.

There had been 85 votes up for grabs among the many members on the annual assembly, divided primarily by geography — with 10 every for Ontario and Quebec, eight every for Alberta and British Columbia, 4 every for Nova Scotia and Saskatchewan, three every for Manitoba and Nova Scotia, and two every for Newfoundland and Labrador, Prince Edward Island, Nunavut, Northwest Territories and Yukon.

The different 25 votes got here from the gamers (two votes, one from every nationwide workforce), Canada’s leagues {and professional} golf equipment (21), referees (one) and coaches (one).

Canada Soccer didn’t launch the vote complete in asserting the outcomes.

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