Saadia Ashraf is an

American football American football (referred to simply as football in the United States and Canada), also known as gridiron, is a team sport played by two teams of eleven players on a rectangular field with goalposts at each end. The offense, the team with ...

coach for Team Canada, Team Quebec, and the Montreal Blitz Football Organizations. She is also a former championship

quarterback The quarterback (commonly abbreviated "QB"), colloquially known as the "signal caller", is a position in gridiron football. Quarterbacks are members of the offensive platoon and mostly line up directly behind the offensive line. In modern Ame ...

Team Canada Canadian National Team or Team Canada may refer to: Canada at multi-sport events * Canada at the Olympics * Canada at the Paralympics * Canada at the Commonwealth Games * Canada at the Pan American Games Canada's national sport teams * Canada me ...

, Team Quebec and the

Montreal Blitz The Montreal Blitz is a women's gridiron football team, founded in 2001, which plays Canadian football in the Central Canadian Women's Football League. Previously, the team played American football in the Independent Women's Football League (2001 ...

. She has a

Bachelor of Education A Bachelor of Education (B.Ed.) is an undergraduate professional degree which prepares students for work as a teacher in schools. In some countries such as Tanzania and Kenya, additional tasks like field work and research are required in order for ...

degree in

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from

McGill University McGill University (french: link=no, Université McGill) is an English-language public research university located in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Founded in 1821 by royal charter granted by King George IV,Frost, Stanley Brice. ''McGill Universit ...

, and works as a high school teacher in Montreal. She also actively coaches youth girls and boys flag football in the high school GMAA/RSEQ league. In addition she has been the head coach of the John Abbott College Women’s Flag Football team since 1996. (Quebec).

Playing career

While she was in high school Ashraf’s parents did not permit her to play contact sports. During this time she started playing touch football. In her early twenties she joined the Montreal Blitz as a quarterback, and in 2004 bought the team when the original owners wanted to sell. In 2010 she played in the first ever IFAF Women's Worlds in Sweden, winning a silver medal. In 2012 she won the Independent Women's Football League world championship with the

. In 2013 she again quarterbacked Team Canada to a silver medal at the IFAF Women World's, this time in Finland.

Coaching career

Ashraf has coached several different women's tackle football teams including Team Canada (Quarterbacks), Team Quebec (Head Coach), and the Montreal Blitz (Head Coach). She is also the head coach of the flag football team at John Abbott College.

References

External links

Montreal Blitz coaching staff page
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