Friendships born on the field of athletic strife are the real gold of competition. Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.
– Jesse Owens (American track and field athlete and four-time gold medalist in the 1936 Olympic Games)
Women’s football in 2019 is thriving, particularly at Avalon SC. But today we want to take you back fifteen years to 2004, where a pretty special group of girls first started to love this beautiful sport. This is a story about six women who, together with many others, have made a significant contribution to female football at our club – Molly and Naomi Woods, Eliza and Kerry McEwan, Emily McGainand and Ella Smith.
The Avalon Piranhas started as an all-girl team in the mixed U6 MWFA Competition. Continually under-estimated (the ribbons didn’t help) these girls battled it out with the boys week after week to become a highly formidable team. Guided by their football playing mothers, these girls mastered first touch, passing and striking the ball, but