2008 Local sports Awards
Our local Football/Nertball Club had their Junior Presentation Day or as people say Vote Count day. In my grade new recruit who played GA (Goal Attack – shoots goals) won and our GD (Goal defence – defends goals) got runners up. I got third which was a big effort because I didn’t think I would poll much at all. I play WD (Wing defence – positioned in the mid court and defends in the mid court). My brother who plays football for the U/16 team won the ‘Most improved’ player. He played U/16’s for his second year and polled really well too. He ended up 8th out of about 22 players. Pretty good. Also my other sibling, my sister, played her first year in 13/U netball. Her team made it into the Grand Final and they won. It was the most amazing feeling to know that your sister had achieved something I couldn’t. See, when I played in that age group, the team I played in had made it to the Grand Final but we lost. It was great to see her win. Anyway she polled 5 votes and while that isn’t very many she was a young player, a newbie. She was one of the players who sat a lot of time on the bench and she, herself was absolutely stoked that she polled at all.
For anyone who cares AFL is the countries highest league of Australian rules football. In our clubs Senior football team we have an ex-AFL player. That’s pretty big. That’s like saying Beckham retires from the big league and goes to play for a local team who struggles to get a team together. Pretty awesome!!
