Year 7 Girls Soccer  -  Sierra Benedict & Aden Rix

In a fantastic display of teamwork and resilience, the Year 7 Girls Soccer Team fought hard all day at Regionals recently, led by their captain, Abby. The girls unfortunately lost in their opening game against Thornbury, but made a comeback to win their second game 2-0 against Montmorency, with exceptional goals scored by Abbigale Greer-Love and Bonnie Tracey.

With great hope for their third game, they opened by scoring one goal by Elsie Perry, and heading into half time, the girls were extremely optimistic for the opportunity to compete in the grand final. The second half, however, didn’t play so well in our favour. Although the girls made an exceptional effort throughout the day they couldn’t hold onto the lead and unfortunately fell short in a 2-1 loss to Pascoe Vale.

Harper Gleeson, our goal keeper, displayed an outstanding amount of skill and determination by stepping up to save countless shots. We couldn't have done it without her. A big thank you to the girls who put their best foot forward, representing our College at regional level. Although the results were not in our favour, the girls showed great skill and determination, highlighting their commitment to the team. We valued the opportunity to coach the girls, hoping to guide them again in future.

'Regionals' - Elsie Perry's Reflection -  Year 7

This term we had the opportunity to go to our Regional Year 7 Girls Soccer Competition after making it through the first round. On the way there the bus was a buzz with a mix of nerves, excitement and curiosity about what the day had in store for us. After a quick briefing we got straight into games. Both sides took lots of close shots, and there were heaps of good dribbling and running from both sides. We had our fair share of synthetic grass burns and other twisted ankles, and a random injured jaw. We concluded that game with a tough 2-0 loss to Thornbury who turned out to be the nicest school we competed against all day.

In our second game we came back with the same great happy buzzing energy, ready to give this game all we had. Still plenty of amazing shots and, as a team, we were starting to become more comfortable with the ball, our positions and each other. After our amazing efforts we had a win of 2-1, with the goal scorers being Bonnie Tracy and Abbi Greer-Love. They both played really well all day.

We had one last game to play before we got to see if we made finals. We had a tough loss 1-0 to a 'win at all costs' team so we did not make the cut for the grand final, but we finished second!

Thank you very much to our coaches Sierra Benedict and Aden Rix. They are both amazing and nice soccer coaches. Thank you Mrs Boorman and Mrs knight for coming and cheering us all on, and also helping everyone who got injured.  Thank you also to everyone who helped out on the day. Thank you to all the refs who did really well, and they also gave us some tips after the game. Finally, all the girls played amazingly and improved over the day, even though some of them had never played before. The opportunity was great and really recommended it for next year.