{"id":523370,"date":"2026-03-08T22:51:16","date_gmt":"2026-03-08T22:51:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/523370\/"},"modified":"2026-03-08T22:51:16","modified_gmt":"2026-03-08T22:51:16","slug":"vancouver-rise-fc-wins-best-of-bc-award-from-sport-bc-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/523370\/","title":{"rendered":"Vancouver Rise FC wins Best of BC award from Sport BC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>              Vancouver Rise FC wins Best of BC award from Sport BC<\/p>\n<p class=\"pubStamp\">Published 8:52 am Saturday, March 7, 2026<\/p>\n<p>The Vancouver Rise FC was awarded the Best of BC award by Sport BC on Thursday (March 5).<\/p>\n<p>The organization\u2019s 58th annual awards, hosted by the CBC\u2019s Scott Russell, honoured B.C.\u2019s best in amateur sport, including athletes, coaches, teams and officials for outstanding performances in 2025.<\/p>\n<p>The Best of BC award is supported by the province and is given to a team or person who has represented B.C. internationally or nationally in a professional or amateur sport, according to Sport BC.<\/p>\n<p>The Vancouver Rise FC won the inaugural Diana Matheson Cup in the Northern Super Leagues (NSL) in 2025. <\/p>\n<p>B.C.\u2019s Minister of Tourism, Arts, Culture and Sport, Anne Kang, congratulated all the finalists this year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is the moment we celebrate your positive contribution to sport and community. Your commitment inspires those around you and demonstrates the importance of sport in bringing people together to build a stronger, more inclusive future for everyone.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Vancouver Rise FC are part of Canada\u2019s first professional women\u2019s soccer league, the Northern Super League, which debuted in 2025. The other clubs are Calgary Wild FC, Halifax Tides FC, Montr\u00e9al Roses, Ottawa Rapid FC and AFC Toronto.<\/p>\n<p>The Vancouver Rise FC kick off their second season with the first home match against AFC Toronto. The last time the two teams faced off was in the Northern Super League championship match, which Rise FC won 2-1.<\/p>\n<p>The full list of Sport BC award-winners is posted on <a href=\"https:\/\/sportbc.com\/2026\/03\/06\/sport-bc-congratulates-the-finalists-and-winners-announced-at-the-58th-athlete-of-the-year-awards\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">sportbc.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/surreynowleader.com\/2026\/03\/06\/2-surrey-athletes-win-sport-bc-awards-for-excellence-in-2025\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">READ MORE: 2 Surrey athletes win Sport BC awards for excellence in 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mapleridgenews.com\/2026\/03\/06\/maple-ridges-franklin-wins-comeback-player-award-from-sport-bc\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">READ MORE: Maple Ridge\u2019s Franklin wins comeback player award from Sport BC<\/a><\/p>\n<p>-With files from Tom Zillich<\/p>\n<p>About the Author: Anna Burns<\/p>\n<p>I cover breaking news, health care, court, Vancouver Rise FC, Vancouver Goldeneyes and social issues-related topics for the Surrey Now-Leader.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/surreynowleader.com\/2026\/03\/07\/vancouver-rise-fc-wins-best-of-bc-award-from-sport-bc\/mailto:anna.burns@surreynowleader.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">anna.burns@surreynowleader.com<\/a>\u00a0Follow Anna on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AnnaBBurns\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Twitter<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>            <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Vancouver Rise FC wins Best of BC award from Sport BC Published 8:52 am Saturday, March 7, 2026&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":520917,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194299],"tags":[49,48,87674],"class_list":{"0":"post-523370","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-surrey","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-surrey"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=523370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523370\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/520917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=523370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=523370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=523370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}