{"id":627473,"date":"2026-04-25T09:52:23","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T09:52:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/627473\/"},"modified":"2026-04-25T09:52:23","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T09:52:23","slug":"reginas-bateman-joins-bu-soccer-team-brandon-sun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/627473\/","title":{"rendered":"Regina\u2019s Bateman joins BU soccer team \u2013 Brandon Sun"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of the best players in Brandon University women\u2019s soccer history is leaving the program with a parting gift.<\/p>\n

Brogan Henry capped her Bobcats career as the final four MVP, leading the team to its third straight Manitoba Colleges Athletic Conference title. Now, she has helped steer her cousin, Victoria Bateman, to the program.<\/p>\n

\u201cBeing so close with her, I\u2019ve gone to a lot of her youth games and some of her university games, and she\u2019s a really good player, so it\u2019s nice having her as an idol to look up to,\u201d said Bateman, who got to watch the Bobcats when they played pre-season games against her hometown University of Regina Cougars.<\/p>\n

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Victoria Bateman of Regina has committed to the Brandon University women\u2019s soccer team for the 2026 MCAC season. (Submitted)<\/p>\n

The program has certainly benefited from Saskatchewan talent this decade, as a steady stream of players, including Henry, Kenadie Janzen, Tarin Ballan and Kylie van de Woestyne, have all been MCAC all-conference players.<\/p>\n

BU head coach Diego Rodriguez Sr. has high hopes for Bateman.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe\u2019s a creative player. She\u2019s really good with her feet,\u201d Rodriguez Sr. said. \u201cShe always passes the ball to the gaps. She has a really good mentality about soccer.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bateman has been playing soccer her entire life, and with older brothers playing on elite teams, she was always motivated to do the same.<\/p>\n

The midfielder helped the FC Regina Bluestars win a provincial championship in her last year of under-17 soccer, earning a trip to nationals in Kamloops, B.C.<\/p>\n

While she has looked up to Henry for years, she doesn\u2019t necessarily emulate the high-scoring Bobcat striker\u2019s style.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy game is more switching the field, making things happen with passing, seeing the vision of the field as well, being more of a playmaker,\u201d Bateman said.<\/p>\n

The Bobcats are graduating one of their largest groups yet, so plenty of starting spots will be up for grabs for Bateman and the rest of the rookie class, which includes Brandon\u2019s Nicole Dyck and Virden goalkeeper Becca Collier.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m super excited,\u201d Bateman said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI really enjoy the school. They\u2019ve got a really good business program as well as a sports administration program, too. Going to some of her games, I definitely liked the environment.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve just got to gear up for it. \u201c<\/p>\n

\u00bb tfriesen@brandonsun.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One of the best players in Brandon University women\u2019s soccer history is leaving the program with a parting…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":627474,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[49,48,561,82],"class_list":["post-627473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627473","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=627473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627473\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/627474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=627473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=627473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=627473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}