WA Football Commission

The WA State U18 Youth Girls are travelling to Canberra, ACT from the 2^nd – 10^th May for the National Championships. With the support of nearly 30 local sponsors, family and friends the girls have been training since January this year. The team of 27 girls and 10 coaching staff are keen to make the grand final in 2014 and are confident they have the skills, knowledge and hunger to bring home the silverware.

All games will be played at Gungahlin Oval approximately 20 minutes from Canberra. The girls will experience twilight as well as night games as the local organising committee seeks to engage as many of the locals as possible. The fixtures are as follows AEST: Sunday 2^nd May Vic Metro v WA 4:00pm, Monday 5^th May WA v Vic Country 12:30pm and Wednesday 7^th May WA v QLD 3:50pm for qualifying games with finals being played on Thursday 8^th May – 7 v 8 12.30pm 5v6  2:10pm, 3v4 3:50pm and Grand Final 1v2 5:30pm. Please note Canberra is 2 hours ahead of WA time.

The organisers have secured Live streaming for all the games. These can be viewed at: http://www.aflcommunityclub.com.au/index.php?id=748

Highlights and match reports are available at: http://www.aflcommunityclub.com.au/index.php?id=748

Head Coach Michelle Cowan is “really confident the girls will play well. Last year they were so close and this year we know they will be great. We are confident that this team has unity, is hungry for the win and will be selfless in their teamwork. We believe in ourselves and believe in this team” Alison Moore, Female High Performance Manager “is confident we have an even stronger team this year. We have a great mix of skills and talent, several members of the winning State 16’s team and coupled with many returning, experienced players, some that have played for 5 years in this team, who are hungry to take the title off the Vics in 2014.”

COACH                       Michelle Cowan

ASSISTANT COACHES   Michelle Harris

                                 Kara Donnellan

                                 Martine Pearman

OFFICIAL RUNNER        Kira Phillips

HEAD PHYSIOTHERAPIST    Ghislene Goh

PHYSIOTHERAPIST       Tennayah Catto

S+C COACH                 Ryan Gaias

TEAM MANAGER            Janet Seth

WAFC REPRESENATIVE   Alison Moore