11 October 2025

Canada’s Senior Team Captures Bronze At The 2025 Pickleball World Cup at The Fort, Fort Lauderdale, Florida

10/11/2025 Flag bearer and Senior Team Member Robin D’Abreo—member of [...]

10/11/2025

Flag bearer and Senior Team Member Robin D’Abreo—member of Team BC who captured Gold at the 2025 Canadian Nationals’ inaugural Inter-Provincial Competition, and Pickleball BC Executive—leads the Canadian contingent at the opening ceremonies .

November 10th 2025, Vancouver, BC—Sixty-eight countries (Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Bermuda, India, Mexico, and Peru amongst others) and over 3,500 players participated at the Pickleball World Cup on October 27th – November 2nd 2025 at Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Team Canada’s Senior Division players accepted the Bronze Medal on the podium.

Team Canada Senior players proudly sporting their Bronze medal.

The Canadian World Cup Team overall had a very successful World Cup appearance. In the semifinals, the Canadian Senior Team pushed Team USA (overall Gold winners) to a Dreambreaker and later won Bronze. Also the Canadian Open Team made it to the Round of 8, and the Junior Team secured a strong 4th place finish. The other Silver podium winner was Hong Kong.

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Participating BC Players
The BC players, sponsored by Pickleball BC (“PBC”) in their World Cup appearance, included: Open Team Players Caelan Sampson (Langley), Casey Rodgers (Kamloops), and Michael McCaffery (Surrey); Senior Team players Maggie Murch (North Vancouver), Margit Aardmaa (Coquitlam), and Robin D’Abreo (Port Coquitlam); Olivia Hui (Richmond) on the Junior Team; and, coach Tim MacVinnie (Coquitlam).

Pictured above: Full Team Canada players and staff.

Open Team Captain Michael McCaffery (also a member of Team BC who captured Gold at the 2025 Canadian National Championships’ Inter-Provincial Competition) stated: “Incredible experience meeting and competing with athletes from all over the world. There was a great amount of pride and respect shown across the board. Our team was right in there with the top countries … we had a very close Dreambreaker loss to the country that finished 3rd overall, Portugal. A huge thank you to all the sponsors, donors and fans that helped support us in this journey!”

“On the heels of a successful Team BC Gold medal performance at the 2025 Canadian Nationals’ Inter-Provincial Competition this Summer in Winnipeg, we couldn’t be more proud of our BC players who excelled in this global competition”, according to PBC President David Snell.

“Moreover, as we proceed with our PBC Activating Youth Pickleball in BC (“AYPBC”) Phase 2 initiative to introduce the sport to elementary K-7 students in seven BC regions (adding 4 to the pre-existing three Regions from Phase 1: Vancouver Island, Vancouver, and Thompson Okanagan), this effort can only help to grow Canada’s future global participation while helping to improve our favourite sport’s participation and the health of our youth. Stay tuned for more upcoming BC players participation in significant tournaments.”