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RECORD ISSUE 9 4th June 2016 $2.00 For more advice regarding Home Loans call: RAMS Western Region, 77 Pier Street Altona, Vic 3018 Phone: 03 9398 1595. RAMS Greater Western Melbourne, 6 Brook Street Sunbury, Vic 3429 Phone: 03 9740 7650. Shop 5 3238 Craigieburn Road West, Craigieburn Vic 3064 Phone: 03 9303 8522, KICKIN’ IT WITH KRISTEN Editorial – Issue 9, June 4th 2016 LANDMARK YEAR FOR WOMEN’S FOOTBALL By KRISTEN ALEBAKIS IN today’s Footy Record we The women’s competition is something the players have meet Madeline Keryk, a been crying out for and something the community footballer who has realised clearly wants. her dream of playing footy It is great to see several other clubs across the AFL also at the highest level. put their hands up for women’s teams. Her story is an inspiring one. The Western Bulldogs and Melbourne Football Clubs Keryk played junior footy with have been champions for women’s footy for many years. Aberfeldie in the EDFL, before They have brought attention to the women’s game and making the switch to St Albans have given hope to the thousands of young girls who in the Western Region Football dream of experiencing the same adrenalin rush the boys League. do when they play on the MCG. She won premierships with the So the support of other AFL clubs in this exciting new Demons before making the move to state league with venture is critical. Melbourne University. There is no doubt next year is shaping up to be a After continuing to rise through the ranks of junior landmark year for women’s football in this country. football and making a seamless transition to senior To see more women and girls playing footy on television, football, she quickly found herself on an AFL list and to see their pictures in the newspaper and to see stories before she knew it, she was playing alongside some of on the web is only going to do good things. the best females in the country. More clubs in the WRFL have expressed interest in Keryk was a Melbourne player first, but for the past few having girl’s teams and now that an AFL women’s years has been lucky enough to pull on the Western competition is a certainty, I am sure more WRFL clubs Bulldogs jumper. will field more Youth Girls and Senior teams in the future. While her pathway to the Western Bulldogs wasn’t Finally, I want to wish Keryk all the best for the future. as clear as others, she has proved that passion, determination and hard work does pay off. I hope to see her running around on the MCG next year in the AFL women’s competition. Her story, on Page 3, is also timely one, considering we are months away from having the first ever AFL I also hope to see some of the WRFL’s Youth Girls women’s competition. players follow in her footsteps and one day pull on an AFL jumper. The amount of exposure the women’s game has received over the past 12 months has been unprecedented. See you at the footy. CONTENTS Madeline Keryk .................................................................................3 Division 3 Senior/Reserves .................................................28-36 Sandra Wilson joins WRFL board ...............................................4 Umpire’s Corner ............................................................................. 37 WRFL Junior Interleague Teams ................................................5 Tips/Flashback Photo .................................................................. 38 Division 1 Senior/Reserves ...................................................7-16 Under-19 Division 1 ...............................................................39-44 Player Profile ................................................................................... 17 Under-19 Division 2 ...............................................................46-50 Division 2 Senior/Reserves .................................................18-25 Junior Results ...........................................................................55-64 FRONT COVER CAPTION: Parkside’s Matt Alderman in action in Division 3 earlier this season. Picture: DARRELL JONES WRFL FOOTY RECORD Western Region Football League President: Meredith Angwin Level One, Whitten Oval, Footscray CEO: Bob Tregear OFFICE: (03) 9315-5400 Editor: Kristen Alebakis 1 WRFL FOOTY RECORD Club Multicultural Diversity Partner GROWING AUSTRALIAN RULES FOOTBALL IN THE WEST WWW.WRFL.ORG.AU 2 WRFL NEWS A DREAM COME TRUE FOR MADELINE By KRISTEN ALEBAKIS MADELINE Keryk’s football journey began more before she knew it she found herself on an AFL list. than 10 years ago, when she began playing Keryk was a Melbourne player in 2013, before the Auskick with her brothers in Aberfeldie. Western Bulldogs selected her in the draft. She played with the boys for as long as she was allowed She has now been a part of the team from the west for to, before making the move to St Albans in the Western the past two years and says being involved with an AFL Region Football League. club has been a dream come true. The 21-year-old had a successful stint with St Albans “It has been awesome,” Keryk said. between 2010 and 2013. “The Western Bulldogs have been really good to us, we “We were in the grand final every year, we won three of have access to all of their facilities and they really make the four premierships,” Keryk said. us feel included. “I have some fond memories of my time with St Albans.” “It was a pretty special feeling when I pulled on the AFL Keryk had an impressive junior career, one any footballer jumper for the first time. Growing up it was something I would dream of having. never thought I would be able to do.” She captained Victoria at the National Under-18 Youth Girls With conversations about the women’s game becoming Championships, was an All-Australian and donned the Big V the norm and the introduction of the AFL women’s in the Victorian schoolgirls’ team in 2010 and 2011. competition next season more girls will get the chance to experience the same feeling Keryk had when she ran Keryk said her junior career prepared her for what came onto the MCG for the first time. next, a move to the Melbourne University Women’s Football Club and a step up to state league competition. Keryk isn’t a jealous person, but she is jealous of the pathway young girls who aspire to play AFL will now have. “My football got a lot better at St Albans, I started to train better and I improved a lot,” she said. “It is getting more common for girls to play footy,” Keryk said. “I met a new bunch of people at Melbourne Uni and I “It is becoming more accepted at club level and in society. have been able to really learn a lot from that exposure. “If girls want to play footy that should be allowed to. “The challenge (of playing at a higher level), was good “Football clubs are great places, you can have a lot of for my footy.” fun, make a lot of friends, it is a good way to keep fit and Keryk continued to let her football do the talking and if you work hard there is a good chance you could make your way to the AFL.” Keryk said she was hopeful of being a part of the next year’s AFL competition. “I am just going to continue to work hard,” she said. Keryk was named in the Western Bulldogs’ squad for its clash with Western Australia at Etihad Stadium tomorrow. The match will kick-off at 12.30pm. Tickets can be purchased from Ticketmaster, with the ticket holder entitled to access both the Western Bulldogs’ women’s exhibition match and the Round 11 AFL clash. Western Bulldogs player Madeline Keryk. Picture: SUPPLIED 3 WRFL FOOTY RECORD WRFL NEWS SANDRA WILSON JOINS THE WRFL BOARD By KRISTEN ALEBAKIS HOBSON’S Bay Council Deputy Cr Wilson is now the third female on the WRFL board, Mayor Sandra Wilson has joined she joins Acting President Meredith Angwin and the Board of the Western Region Director Gina Smith. Football League. Cr Wilson, who has also served as Mayor of the The avid football and Western Hobson’s Bay Council and as Registrar of Altona Juniors Bulldogs fan joins the league after a Football Club, said one of her focuses was to make reshuffle of Board positions resulting Sandra Wilson joins from President Bruce Mildenhall’s football accessible to people of all ages and abilities in the WRFL board. Melbourne’s west. Picture: SUPPLIED. extended leave of absence overseas. Cr Wilson has worked as a consultant in workplace “I really value the league across the western region diversity issues including equal opportunity, bullying and I am a huge lover of football, so I want to continue and flexible work practices and has also had experience to grow the game and make it accessible to different working with volunteers. groups,” she said. Cr Wilson said she was looking forward to getting “Also any influence I can have on women’s participation involved with the WRFL community. and driving some change in that area I am happy to do. “I am a lover of football and an advocate for volunteers “I want to see more women in leadership roles across in sport, so I am really keen to influence the culture and community sporting organisations.” growth of football in the region,” she said. 2016 WRFL JUNIOR INTERLEAGUE FIXTURE Squad Date Time Opponent Venue Youth Girls Wed 1st June 8.15pm YJFL 1 Macleod Park, 50 Chapman Street, Macleod Sat 11th June 10am NFL Woodlands Water Reserve, Waterview Drive, Mernda Mon 13th June 10am SEJ Jacana Reserve, Lorraine Cres, Broadmeadows U16 Wed 15th June 6.30pm EDFL TBA Wed 29th June 6.30pm RDFNL TBA U15 Div 1 (A) Wed 1st June 8.15pm YJFL Dempster Park, Phoenix Street, North Sunshine Sat 11th June 2pm EFL Walker Park, Maroondah