{"id":843873,"date":"2026-08-03T06:39:01","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T06:39:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/843873\/"},"modified":"2026-08-03T06:39:01","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T06:39:01","slug":"calgary-wild-head-coach-leah-blayney-granted-leave-of-absence-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/843873\/","title":{"rendered":"Calgary Wild head coach Leah Blayney granted leave of absence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1785540260_66_imageRedirect.jpeg\" class=\"object-fit-cover\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Calgary Wild&#8217;s Ally Green, back right, and Kahli Johnson celebrate a goal against Vancouver Rise in Burnaby, B.C., on Saturday, May 24, 2025. THE CANADIAN PRESS\/Darryl Dyck<\/p>\n<p>By The Canadian Press<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\tJul 31, 2026 | 4:27 PM\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>CALGARY \u2014 Calgary Wild FC head coach Leah Blayney has been granted a leave of absence to attend to a private family matter, the Northern Super League club announced Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The Wild said in a statement they \u201cfully supports\u201d Blayney and asked for privacy.<\/p>\n<p>Blayney, a former Australian midfielder, was hired by Calgary on July 6 following an 0-7-2 start under assistant Sinead McSharry, who served as interim head coach after Lydia Bedford left earlier this year to work with England\u2019s under-23 team.<\/p>\n<p>The Wild have lost all four matches with Blayney in charge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Calgary Wild&#8217;s Ally Green, back right, and Kahli Johnson celebrate a goal against Vancouver Rise in Burnaby, B.C.,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":840284,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194293],"tags":[49,2798,48],"class_list":["post-843873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-calgary","tag-ca","tag-calgary","tag-canada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/843873","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=843873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/843873\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/840284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=843873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=843873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=843873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}