The Synergy of a group of girls from North Burnaby on the soccer pitch was something to behold. The collection of U14s simply ran roughshod over all comers from coast to coast in going unbeaten in the 32 games they played that season. In 19 games on the local soccer scene the only blemish on their record was one tie to go along with 18 wins.

They breezed through the Coastal Cup A Championships winning all four of their games and another four at the Provincial Cup Championship. That enabled the Synergy, coached by Tony Drescher and Mark Pennington, to advance to the Canadian youth championships in Prince Edward Island Oct. 5-13, 2008.

In their three round-robin games, Cliff Avenue out-scored the opposition 16-0 before edging Ontario 3-2 in a semifinal. That set the stage for the final in which Synergy surrendered the first goal before bouncing back to defeat Quebec 3-1 to capture the Canadian championship. Many players from the team eventually played on varsity post-secondary teams including Samantha Drescher, Tamara Roughead, Simran Parmar and Shayla Chorney for UBC and Isabella Di Trocchio and Lindsey Pulice at Trinity Western.

In addition, after playing for the University of the Fraser Valley, goaltender Kayla Klim went on to play professionally in Sweden.