Britni Smith and Tara Watchorn on defence and Jennifer Wakefield and Natalie Spooner as forwards will be among the Canada’s hopeful’s for Team Canada. All four players are products of the storied Oshawa Ball Hockey League and have at various times in their ball hockey careers played for one of the top teams in the country, Oshawa Stampede.

We wish the players the best of luck at the selection camp which begins on Sunday April 3 and runs through to Friday, April 8.

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Players and staff will depart Canada on April 9 for Zurich, Switzerland, where the team will hold a pre-competition camp from April 10-14, including a game against Switzerland in April 14.

Canada will attempt to win its 10th gold medal all-time at the 2011 IIHF World Women’s Championship, having previously won gold in 1990, 1992, 1994, 1997, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2004 and 2007. Canada’s National Women’s Team has appeared in every gold medal game since the first IIHF World Women’s Championship in Ottawa, Ont., in 1990, winning silver in 2005, 2008 and 2009 in addition to its nine gold medals.

Canada opens the 2011 IIHF World Women’s Championship on April 16 against Switzerland, and will also face Kazakhstan and Finland in preliminary round play. The 2011 IIHF World Women’s Championship includes two groups of four teams, with the top three teams from each group advancing to the medal round, which starts on April 23.