The careers for the young coaches at the Yukon youth soccer camp held recently in Whitehorse are looking promising.

The camp featured Yukon soccer superstar Joe Hanson, his sister Malorie, and Lowell Wright and Max Anchor, teammates of Hanson on his Vancouver Whitecaps FC 2 club.

Wright, 19, from Brampton, Ont., is a striker with the Whitecaps FC 2.

He said despite a recent injury, his career with the Whitecaps is going good.

“I joined them last year in August, so I’ve just been getting into it. I was injured for a little bit but now I’m coming back.

But I like it so far. I like the lifestyle and how they treat everyone over there as well.”

Malorie Hanson 23, confirmed she’s still with the Lethbridge Collegiate College (LCC) Kodiaks.

“I plan to be there for one more season. I kind of caught the end of last year coming back from my second ACL reconstruction, so doing pretty well with that.

“I’ve been training with the men’s team here this summer and doing some work with my dad too, individually, and just a lot of strength training on my own time.

“I have a rehab program that I do most days, and that’s rehabilitating the injury that I already had and preventing more, hopefully.”

Hanson said she was heading back to Lethbridge in about a month.

As for future plans, she said she’s probably going to be going to the University of Calgary after LCC.

“Don’t really have plans for soccer at this point but that’s the plan for now.”

Burnaby’s Anchor, 18, is the starting goalkeeper for the Whitecaps FC 2 team.

He’s on a first-team contract with the Whitecaps.

“It’s been a pretty good year as second team.

We started strong. We’ve been struggling a little bit but overall it’s been good; enjoying the week off that we have.”

“I keep pushing every day to try to put myself into opportunities with the first team again like I did last year, so just take it day-by-day and hopefully in a couple years, I can be the starter there.”

Anchor grew up a Whitecaps fan.

“My dad used to take me to the games all the time, so it was cool to see.

And then it’s almost a little weird when you used to watch these guys on TV, at B.C.

Place, and then training with them and playing there yourself, so it’s pretty surreal.”

Joe Hanson, 19, plays striker and wing for the Whitecaps FC 2.

“It’s been good. I’m in my second year of my professional contract with them and still playing with the second team.

Been in and out a little bit with the first team.

“Spent the first two months of the preseason with the first team going to Marbella, Spain and Palm Springs for the MLS pre-tournament. Got to play against some MLS first-team competition and then USL teams as well and then Bundesliga teams in Spain, so it’s been a really good year so far.

“Just trying to get better and develop as much as I can. I’m still young, so just taking every day and trying to learn from it.”

As for going up to the big team one day, Hanson said, “It really depends on the coaches and the staff, the upper management.

You never really know in the professional game.

There’s more than just a game at that level.

There’s all kinds of – I don’t want to say politics, but there’s more things happening in the background than you realize.

“I just try to focus on the controllables and what I can do; working hard and getting better every day and do the best I can and just see what happens.

See where it takes me.”