Competition draw and ACT squad list soucred from the Capital Football website.
The FFA National Junior Championships for Under 13 Girls will be held again in Canberra in the period 18-20 April 2011 (dates inclusive). All games will be held at Hawker Enclosed.
If you can, get to some of these games. The best in Australia at age is on display. They will all play the 1-4-3-3 as required by the National Football Curriculum, and National Development Plan. Its an excellent opportunity, particularly for coaches of junior teams int eh CF competitions, to watch how the various coaches have prepared their teams and how this age group is developing within the current national development regime.
The ACT representative squad is as follows:
1. Jillian Scott (gk – Woden Valley)
2. Gabrielle Risteska (Monaro Panthers)
3. Jamie Berkeley (Woden Valley)
4. Leah Carnegie (Belnorth)
5. Amelia Turner (Woden Valley)
6. Olivia Fogarty (Woden Valley)
7. Nickoletta Flannery (Woden Valley)
8. Lorna Arkell (Radford College)
9. Samantha Roff (Radford College)
10. Sandra Hill (Woden Valley)
11. Grace Maher (Majura JSC)
12. Hayley McLachlan (Woden Valley)
13. Lorena Barbaro (Gungahlin United)
14. Georgia Fogarty (Woden Valley)
15. Iesha De Andrade (Woden Valley)
16. Alexandra Cook (gk – Majura JSC)
COACH: Colin Johnstone
MANAGER: Eddie Senatore
PHYSIOTHERAPIST: Tim McNally
The scedule of fixtures is listed below.
NATIONAL JUNIOR CHAMPIONSHIPS
Fixture List
Group A
NSW Metro
Northern NSW
South Australia
Victoria Metro
ACT
Group B
Queensland
Western Australia
NSW Country
Victoria Country
Tasmania
Day 1 – 18th April 2011
8.30am Western Australia v Tasmania
9.30am Northern NSW v VIC Metro
10.30am ACT v South Australia
11.30am NSW Country v VIC Country
12.30pm NSW Metro v Queensland
1.30pm Northern NSW v ACT
2.30pm NSW Country v Western Australia
3.30pm Queensland v Tasmania
4.30pm VIC Metro v NSW Metro
5.30pm VIC Country v South Australia
Day 2 – 19th April 2011
8.30am ACT v VIC Metro
9.30am Tasmania v NSW Country
10.30am South Australia v NSW Metro
11.30am VIC Country v Queensland
12.30pm Northern NSW v Western Australia
1.30pm VIC Metro v Tasmania
2.30pm NSW Metro v ACT
3.30pm Queensland v NSW Country
4.30pm Western Australia v VIC Country
5.30pm South Australia v Northern NSW
Day 3 – 20th April 2011
8.30am NSW Metro v Northern NSW
9.30am ACT v NSW Country
10.30am South Australia v VIC Metro
11.30am Western Australia v Queensland
12.30pm VIC Country v Tasmania
1.30pm All Stars Announcement
2.15pm All Stars v National Champions
3.15pm Presentation
In your own words on another item:
ReplyDelete"We campaign our junior representative teams at the National Junior Championships and its all hard work and, despite our coach's best efforts, find our most talented players relegated further down the State / territory team result lists - its seems tobe getting hrader to be competitive - why and can it be fixed? The recent review of the HPP that produced the players for these teams, pointed out that they were not high performance programs. Other States move moved closer to that reality, but not the ACT. By contrast, ACTAS mens have delivered the results, but then, they do have a truly high performance program. The ACTAS womens program is very different in character to the Mens program, the players are often in it for several years, where they have time to mature and develop as players (fantastic outcome)."
Maybe it's time that Canberra wakes up (or maybe some of you have judging by the above comments) - if you want better performances at Nationals from ACT teams and more national representation (like we used to get) then maybe one part of that solution is to reverse the dumping of the playing squad model of the old Academy (and incidentally still going at ACTAS). Funny that NSW and other states have quasi rep teams running around in their top leagues but we see fit to dump that approach. Hmmm...