Unity in push to top spot
ST MARGARET MARY’S STUDENTS’ TARGET STATE AND NATIONAL TITLES
WITH the right touch, St Margaret Mary’s Catholic College could have its hands firmly on a national title.
Playing at Queensland All Schools in 2018, the school’s junior touch football team finished top of their pool and in the top-eight after the competition was rained out, to qualify through to the National Schools Cup Championships on the Sunshine Coast.
The side, made up of grade 9-10s including representative junior stars and co-captains in Emily Batten and Aimee Angus ( pictured below), was confident they had the players to push for a title.
“We have a range of different abilities, we’re fast and have a bit of everything, and I think we’ll go pretty well,” Emily, 15, said.
“We gel well as a team and we’ll be very competitive, so it’ll be interesting to see how we go.”
A regular in the top-rated school sides in the state in recent years, coach Ben Luinys said this year’s side had a particularly strong nucleus and could expect to be very competitive on the Sunshine Coast against the best touch schools in the country.
“Our junior girls have finished top four in state for the last few years in a row,” he said.
“We’ve got a really strong body of players this year.”
No stranger to high-end touch despite her young age, Aimee, 15, said her experience would be the best asset she could offer the side. Playing on the national stage, she said it would be “pretty cool” to come home with the title.
The side heads south for the competition at the end of this term.