Hundreds of Haligonians gathered Thursday night for the unveiling of the team name and logo for Halifax’s first women’s professional soccer club — Halifax Tides FC. Team kits and merchandise will now don a badge that features colliding tidal waves crashing into an ‘X’ shape, representing the cross on Nova Scotia’s flag. Four stripes at the base of the team’s crest represent each of the former municipalities that make up the amalgamated HRM: Halifax, Dartmouth, Bedford and Halifax County.
View image in full screen Halifax Tides FC unveils name and logo for HRM’s first-ever women’s professional soccer team. Halifax Tide FC “It would not be a national league without an East Coast team,” said Halifax Tides FC co-founder and CEO Courtney Sherlock. Story continues below advertisement Halifax’s club will compete in the Northern Super League (NSL) which currently has five other teams confirmed in Toronto, Montreal, Calgary, Ottawa and Vancouver.
Breaking news from Canada and around the world sent to your email, as it happens. Sherlock says the NSL will give young female players something to look up to and strive towards. “Right now, our Canadian women have had to go outside of our country to play,” said Sherlock.
“We’re hoping to bring a lot of the Canadians back. We would love to have a lot of local representation, but there will be international players as well.” More on Sports Edmonton air traffic control playfully tries to ‘divert’ Florida Pa.
