Geelong Advertiser |Football Club’s new women’s team, Torquay Scott, is ready to roar.
Named in honour of TFC life member Margaret Scott, the female tigers are fired up about their first practice match against the Vales, Wyndham Vale Youth Girls Team, on Saturday at their home ground of Polwarth Oval at Banyul Warri Fields.
Torquay Scott’s coach Larissa Murphy, 31, said the team combined talent, enthusiasm, aptitude and an esprit-de-corps.
Murphy who played women’s football at the University of Melbourne for nine years as a rover, said Team Scott’s players all had a strong sporting background.
“We recruited the players in August last year when we ran an information session and put it out there on social media,” Murphy said.
“Now we have over 13 players aged from 13 to 18 from different schools, but they all live on the Surf Coast.”
Murphy said while the team’s sporting backgrounds covered a multitude of activities, netball and surf life saving were the common denominators.
“Getting the team together was about getting the numbers and some girls are quite experienced and some have never played before,” she said.
“While their football skills need some development, their aptitude and positive attitude are sensational.”
She said they were tackling training drills with enthusiasm and building their ball handling techniques.
But there was more to being team than taking a mark or kicking a goal, she said.
“I hope to see the team form a really great friendship of girls they would not have met in the area as they attend different schools,” she said.
“I feel they will gel as a good solid team and this is already starting.”
Murphy said Torquay Scott will receive their jumpers at a presentation night at the TFC on 26 March with their namesake presenting their team jerseys.