Charmaine Crooks has been elected president of Canada Soccer.
The former Olympian beat out former Canada Soccer vice-president Rob Newman for the top elected job at the governing body’s annual meeting in Saint John.
Crooks was elevated to interim president from vice-president in late February after Nick Bontis resigned, acknowledging change was needed to achieve labour peace with the Canadian men’s and women’s national teams.
Crooks’s term lasts for a year, matching the time that Bontis’s appointment would have lasted. There will be another election in a year, this time for a full four-year term.
Canada Soccer’s annual meeting of the members runs through
