Motivated Horns unsatisfied as they look to secure a playoff spot

By Lethbridge Herald on October 8, 2025.

Herald Photo by Justin Seward University of Lethbridge Pronghorns Kai Sakaguchi attempts to run down and check Soliman Aria of the University of Calgary Dinos during Canada West men’s soccer action earlier this season.

By Justin Seward

Lethbridge Herald

The University of Lethbridge Pronghorns men’s soccer team have three games left in their regular season schedule and the team is nowhere near satisfied with their overall game as they fight for their position into the Canada West playoffs.

“We’re not happy … where we are even though that we’re in a good spot,” said Chris McKaig, Horns head coach.

“We’re not really resting on any good results that we’ve had lately. We’re putting them in the memory bank and trying to move onto to the next challenges that (are) ahead.”

The Horns are taking a game-by-game approach.

“ I think that we’re happy with how we’re competing and playing but I think that we want more,” said McKaig.

“We want to improve this program greatly and the only way to do that is hard work.”

McKaig said they’ve been buzzing, when asked about the upside he has seen within the group.

“They’re super competitive with each other, they’re fighting with each other (and) scrappy, which is exactly the environment we want because that’s what the game environment is in USports,” said McKaig.

It was at a recent match that an opposition’s commentator described the Horns as the ‘School ground bully.

“My message to the players would be embrace that, and we gotta try and be more aggressive (and) more physical because at the start I thought  that we were too nice,” said McKaig.

The Horns are third in Canada West’s Prairie Division with a 4-3-4 record and currently hold a playoff spot.

U of L plays on the road at the University of Saskatchewan on Friday.