April 9 is the date to remember if you want to stake a claim in local sports history by being part of Broulee Moruya Giants’ first women’s team to play a competition match.
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It will be round two of the SCAFL competition and BMG will host Bermagui in a five-match Aussie rules gala day starting at 9am and finishing about 3.30pm at Gundary Oval.
The newly-minted BMG women’s team will take the field at 12.45pm in a historic inclusion of women into the regular fixture. It will be the first of a ten game home and away season plus finals.
The BMG women’s team is taking shape with a team sponsor coming on board.
Proprietor Karen Lindh said she was pleased to lend a hand to the Giants’ inaugural women’s team.
“I am very supportive of promoting and supporting women in any way I can (and) I am very keen to support local initiatives,” Lindh said.
“I (am) very proud and honoured to sponsor the women's team.”
Broulee-Mourya Giants’ president Doug Williams noted the great participation of women in the AFL nines competition run by the club at the end of last year.
He said “women’s football was growing incredibly quickly”.
“There is now around 60 teams throughout NSW and the ACT has had a female competition for more than a decade,” Williams said.
“The AFL is launching a female league in 2017, so it’s great that the SCAFL are ahead of the curve in starting this women’s competition.
“It will be a fantastic way to keep families together in weekend sport.”
The BMG women’s team will have links in the NSW AFL headquarters, with Moruya’s own Libby Sadler being the NSW AFL female football manager. When contacted by BMG Libby said it strengthened the pathway to professional sport for budding footballers.
“We have already seen the region’s talent through our Indigenous Programs with Wrylka Colburn’s selection in the national Indigenous team – The Woomeras, and this competition will open the doors for regions best athletes to play in a professional competition,” Sadler said.
“If only it was around in the 90s…”
BMG are looking for female players 15 years and over to play in the team. Registrations are open at www.bmgiants.com and training starts on March 1 at Gundary Oval, 5.30pm.
Registration fees for all BMG competition grades are $105.00, and registration for intra-9’s is $75.00.
For more information call Giants’ committee member Marty Jones on 0478 605 645 or email bmaussierules@gmail.com.
