BRIDGEPORT, Pa. — Former Indiana University standout Shae Fournier is among 13 athletes selected to the Canada Women’s National Team roster for the 2018 FINA Women’s World Cup in Surgut, Russia on September 4-9.
Canada will compete in Group B against the Republic of South Africa, New Zealand and the United States of America. Group A features Australia, Spain, China and Russia.
The FINA World Cup tournament takes place every non-Olympic year between World Championships and serves a qualification event for the upcoming 2019 FINA World Championship. The Canadian team did not attend the last edition of the FINA Women’s World Cup in 2014. Canada’s previous result at this tournament is a fifth-place finish at the 2010 Event in Christchurch, New Zealand.
A 2014 graduate of Indiana, Fournier (2011-2014) is one of the most decorated players in Indiana water polo history. She holds the top two school records for single-season goals (95 in 2014, 83 in 2013) and career goals (305), and is second in IU history in career steals (311). Fournier was the 2014 Collegiate Water Polo Association (CWPA) Player of the Year, and earned second team Association of Collegiate Water Polo Coaches (ACWPC) All-America and College Sport Information Directors of America (CoSIDA) First-Team Academic All-America honors. Fournier is one of five players in National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) history to score 300 or more goals in her career.
The Most Valuable Player of the 2014 CWPA Championship hosted by Bucknell University for leading the Hoosiers to an 11-10 victory over Princeton University, she is among a select group of Indiana women’s water polo players who won a pair of league titles during their tenure. In 2011 as a freshman, Fournier helped her squad down the University of Michigan, 5-3, at home in Bloomington for the program’s first title since taking home the 2003 crown.
