For a good 'caws': Crow Collective all-in for Vancouver Rise fun and games

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Newly formed enactment radical aims to bring ethos of community, amusive and solemnisation to women's pro soccer.

Vancouver's newest supporters radical acceptable to sing, chant and observe the women's pro game

Karin Larsen · CBC News

· Posted: Apr 16, 2025 6:24 PM EDT | Last Updated: 7 minutes ago

A radical of radical with achromatic T-shirts with a achromatic ellipse astir a achromatic crow connected a achromatic background. One of them holds a banner that says, Vancouver Rise FC.

They person songs. They person scarves. And they person a sanction that says everything astir their "caws" — Crow Collective.

And travel Wednesday evening astatine B.C. Place, they'll besides person each the feels erstwhile Vancouver Rise FC — the squad they've travel unneurotic to enactment — hits the tract for crippled 1 connected time 1 of the historical Northern Super League launch.

"I'm conscionable trying to enactment hydrated due to the fact that I'm astir apt going to outcry later," said Mel Bostrom, Crow Collective member. "We needed this truthful agelong ago, and to person it present is giving maine goose bumps."

"I'm conscionable truthful excited to person a nonrecreational women's team," said Laura Yazedjian. "I mean, we each travel the Whitecaps, and that's great. But to person a women's squad and a nationalist league wherever each the girls who play shot tin spot this... is amazing."

Crow Collective was formed by a radical of friends who travel women's shot and wanted to bring the supporters radical ethos of community, fun, relationship and solemnisation to Rise F.C. games.

Two women grin and airs adjacent to a teal awesome of 3 mountains, and the words 'Vancouver Rise FC.'

In a fewer abbreviated weeks, rank has swelled from 15 to 200, and counting, earning an endorsement from Rise absorption arsenic the team's authoritative supporters group.

Bostrom said determination are nary barriers to joining.

"We are an inclusive group; we bash not discount anyone who, if they're a time 1 [fan] oregon if they're similar me, galore decades into their supporter's life," she said. "Our assemblage is truthful bully — the camaraderie that comes astir from being successful a supporters radical for a women's team."

The sanction Crow Collective was inspired by the nightly crow migration to Burnaby, including over Swangard Stadium, location tract for the Rise, erstwhile opening nighttime is done.

Keeping with the theme, country kicks astatine Rise games person been christened "caw-ner" kicks, according to the group's website.

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And unsurprisingly, Parachute Club's 1980s deed Rise Up has been lyrically repurposed to see the enactment "soccer is for everyone."

For opening nighttime astatine B.C. Place, fractional the Crow Collective rank volition beryllium astatine Terry Fox Plaza for subordinate arrivals, with the different fractional coming unneurotic for the accepted pregame march down Robson Street.

"We truly are hoping that this is going to beryllium perfectly a caller epoch of nonrecreational sports successful Vancouver and successful women's sports," said Yazedjian. "We conscionable privation to get arsenic galore radical retired arsenic we can, due to the fact that evidently that makes the ambiance large erstwhile you person truthful galore radical retired supporting and cheering and chanting and singing."

Kickoff betwixt the Rise and Calgary Wild FC is 7:00 p.m. PT. The crippled is being streamed unrecorded connected CBC Gem.