Acadia University Women's Soccer

Batra finished the AUS 2015 season with a 10-1-2 record and good enough for first place in the final AUS standings. Falling short with a 1-0 loss to the Cape Breton Capers in the final, the Axewomen will work to better their 2015 record as hosts of the 2016 CIS Women's Soccer Championship November 10-13. After posting on three wins in his first three seasons, the Axewomen took the AUS by surprise in 2013 eventually losing in the Final.  They followed up their finals loss by going nearly undefeated last season before bowing out in the semi-finals in 2014.  Batras Axewomen expect to take the lessons learned from last years loss to drive the team towards another strong run with an AUS Championship being their first focus. As proud as he is of the on-field success he is even more proud of the recent accomplishments of the members of the Axewomen Soccer Program. In 2014, nineteen AxeWomen out of twenty-five were recognized as Academic All-Canadians bringing to 58 total Academic All-Canadians during his tenure. In that same year team Captain Michelle Pryde (Calgary, AB) was also recognized as a Top-Eight Academic All Canadian in the Country the second Acadia athlete in two years to be honoured with the Governor Generals Award. The team has had significant contributions in the community as well which have been recognized at the AUS level for four consecutive years with an Acadia womens varsity soccer player being honoured with the Community Service Award. Three of those four years the CIS has also recognized an Acadia AxeWoman Soccer player at the National level with the CIS Community Service Award. On the field Batras team has had Nine AUS All-Stars in the past two seasons after only two in his first three years coaching including local player Emily Nickerson (Coldbrook, NS) who has won AUS conference rookie of the year in 2013 and has been named both a 2 and 1 Team CIS All-Canadian in the past two seasons. Prior to taking over the reins at Acadia in 2010, Batra spent two seasons with the Mount Saint Vincent University Mystics women's soccer program. While there, the Mystics posted only one regular season loss in two years and finished the 2009 season undefeated.  Named as the 2009 Atlantic College Athletic Association and Canadian College Athletic Association women's soccer Coach of the Year, Batra's Mystics captured the 2009 ACAA Championship and earned a spot at the CCAA National Championship Batra's coaching at the grass roots is extensive as a holder of a Canadian Soccer Association National B License. As the Technical Director of Dartmouth United for three years from 2005 to 2007, Amit also was the Halifax East and Halifax West Regional Training Centre Head Coach for Soccer Nova Scotia. In 2005 and 2006, Batra coached the Under 13 and Under 14 Boys Provincial teams. In 2012 he spent one year as Assistant Coach with the Men's Canada Games team before other career commitments required him to step away from that role. For nearly 10 years, Amit played in the NSSL Premiership for Forest Hills United under former Acadia men's head coach John Kehoe and for the Dartmouth United Club until 2004. . © 2016 Acadia University | Wolfville, Nova Scotia | Canada View: | Desktop

Landry attended Acadia from 1992-1997 and was a member of the Acadia Mens Soccer Team when they won the 1996 Atlantic University Sport (AUS) championship in thrilling fashion against the defending National Champion Dalhousie Tigers.  Scott was also named to the 2003 ACAA All Conference Soccer Team while completing his PhD in Biomedical Engineering at Dalhousie University. Scott has coached several years at the senior, youth and high school levels in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia.  Coaching with another former Acadia graduate, these Dartmouth teams won a number of provincial championships, placing as high as 5th at the National Championships.  Scott is in his fourth year as an assistant coach with the Acadia Womens Soccer Team and spent a period of time as the interim head coach in 2009 and 2010. Scott also has a full time position as a professor at Acadaia as an Associate Professor of biomechanics and anatomy in the School of Recreation Management and Kinesiology.  Scott was excited to return to Acadia as a professor in 2008, after having completed his undergraduate degrees in biology and engineering at Acadia in the 1990s and his PhD (Biomedical Engineering) and Post Doctorate Fellowship (Kinesiology - University of Calgary) in the 2000s. Scott Landry is the Director of the new John MacIntyre mLAB (motion Laboratory of Applied Biomechanics), which is located in the Acadia Athletic Complex.  The research direction of the new lab involves conducting detailed biomechanical and neuromuscular analyses on a wide range of athletes (varsity and adolescent) as they perform various athletic maneuvers, both within the mLAB and within their true practice/game environments (e.g. gymnasium, artificial field turf and ice arena).  The main goals for the mLAB research team are: i) to gain insight into the mechanisms and risk factors of athletic injuries (e.g. non-contact ACL injuries), ii) to use the acquired knowledge on injury mechanisms to help enhance prevention programs and iii) to establish research collaborations with the sporting equipment industry (e.g. adidas) to test and help develop new footwear and sporting equipment that will not only enhance athletic performance, but also help minimize the risk of athletic injury.  Growing up in Pictou, NS, Scott Landry attended Acadia from 1992-1997 and was a member of the Acadia Mens Soccer Team when they won the 1996 Atlantic University Sport (AUS) championship in thrilling fashion against the defending National Champion Dalhousie Tigers.  Scott was also named to the 2003 ACAA All Conference Soccer Team while completing his PhD in Biomedical Engineering at Dalhousie University. Scott has coached several years at the senior, youth and high school levels in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia.  Coaching with another former Acadia graduate, these Dartmouth teams won a number of provincial championships, placing as high as 5th at the National Championships.  Scott is in his fourth year as an assistant coach with the Acadia Womens Soccer Team and spent a period of time as the interim head coach in 2009 and 2010. Scott also has a full time position as a professor at Acadaia as an Associate Professor of biomechanics and anatomy in the School of Recreation Management and Kinesiology.  Scott was excited to return to Acadia as a professor in 2008, after having completed his undergraduate degrees in biology and engineering at Acadia in the 1990s and his PhD (Biomedical Engineering) and Post Doctorate Fellowship (Kinesiology - University of Calgary) in the 2000s. Scott Landry is the Director of the new John MacIntyre mLAB (motion Laboratory of Applied Biomechanics), which is located in the Acadia Athletic Complex.  The research direction of the new lab involves conducting detailed biomechanical and neuromuscular analyses on a wide range of athletes (varsity and adolescent) as they perform various athletic maneuvers, both within the mLAB and within their true practice/game environments (e.g. gymnasium, artificial field turf and ice arena).  The main goals for the mLAB research team are: i) to gain insight into the mechanisms and risk factors of athletic injuries (e.g. non-contact ACL injuries), ii) to use the acquired knowledge on injury mechanisms to help enhance prevention programs and iii) to establish research collaborations with the sporting equipment industry (e.g. adidas) to test and help develop new footwear and sporting equipment that will not only enhance athletic performance, but also help minimize the risk of athletic injury.