Youths return to Ōmokoroa Football Club
With the winter season now in full swing, life at Ōmokoroa Football Club is busy; reflecting the hustle and bustle of our growing community as a whole.
This year sees Ōmokoroa Football Club’s Minis Programme (ages 5-7) thriving with around 90 local kids turning out each Saturday morning at Western Ave, while our numerous Junior and Youth teams continue to turn out in local WAIBOP competition wearing the ‘bottle and red’ colours of Ōmokoroa.
Club Treasurer Guy St. Clair puts the club’s strong growth down to the “12 months of football initiative” the Ōmokoroa Football Club committee implemented in 2021.
“As well as our traditional winter season, we managed to continue club football over the summer months with junior coaching sessions and Futsal and social six-a-side football,” says Guy.
As well as junior and senior football drawing players and coaches to the club, the club has benefited with several youth players returning to the club as volunteers.
“We have been lucky to have a number of youth players helping out with some of the club events this year, with exyouth players returning to help with coaching and refereeing, as well as some of the behind-the-scenes tasks like linemarking and fundraising.”
“As well as complimenting and taking some of the load off our parent volunteers, having local youth help out around the club is well received by our junior players.”
“It’s awesome to see some of our exjunior players giving back to the club”.
The remainder of the winter season is set to be busy, with weekly local community competition bookended at the end of the season with a number of local tournaments and football festivals.
Ōmokoroa Football Club is always looking for keen individuals to help out at the club. Contact the club president at team@omokoroafc.co.nz for further information