With two teams rather than one playing in Football South leagues for the first time this season, Queenstown women’s footy’s coming on in leaps and bounds.
In addition to the usual premiers side, Queenstown Rovers fielded a Division 1 team — in their final game, played at Queenstown’s Jack’s Point, their player of the day, Carmel Sealey, left, is pictured contesting the ball with Otago Uni’s no.2 team’s player of the day, Ava Young.
The premiers and division 1 teams finish ed third and fourth, respectively, in their Dunedin-based competitions.
Division 1 coach Holly Alldred says the fact her side beat every other in their comp was ‘‘a wee little record I’m quite proud of’’.
It was especially pleasing, she adds, as they never fielded the same team twice ‘‘due to numbers or illness or people having to play in the premiers team’’.
While challenging, it also gave them the chance to blood some young players and field others who’d ‘‘sort of drifted off in the last couple of years’’.
