
VAFA launches Women’s Academy Series
The VAFA is thrilled to announce that, for the first time in League history, a Women’s Academy Series will be played to provide talented youngsters with the opportunity to feature
Build it and they will come
It is with insurmountable pride that Kew Football Club formally recognises the ten-year anniversary of our Women’s Football program.
Today, on International Women’s Day, it seems only appropriate to recognise and honour the enormous impact female footballers have had, and continue to have, on our Club.
Ten years ago, absent a national competition or a how-to manual, Kew FC fielded its first Women’s side. “Humble beginnings” is perhaps as useful a euphemism as any. Training attendees in the single digits, and a Round 1 deficit score in the triple digits.
The landscape of women’s football in 2014 wouldn’t recognise itself today. Our footballers went without the luxury of waiting for the opportunity to present itself. Teething issues came in droves, as we navigated equal opportunity against the grain of just about every feature of club football that was familiar and comfortable. To this day, the Club remains indebted to every woman who represented Kew FC in its inaugural year.
Build it the right way, and they will stay
In ten years, we’ve grown and developed a program that feels like home. With inclusion and enjoyment at the forefront, the Bears can now take pause to celebrate ten years of progress.
It isn’t now as it’s always been. Female-cut uniforms, Saturday fixtures, Club-wide training sessions, sanitary bins and changed language. We recognise the significant off-field progress that has fostered our on-field success, culminating in four Grand Final appearances including a VWFL Division 1 Premiership in 2016. Not bad for nine seasons of footy.
IWD 2023
This year’s UN Women theme for IWD is ‘Cracking the Code: Innovation for a gender equal future’.
We certainly don’t purport to have cracked the figurative code by any means. Rather, we remain committed to learning and evolving as best we can on all fronts.
However, there’s no time like International Women’s Day to consider what our 2014 female footballers might have thought a “gender equal future” would look like at the Bear Cave, ten years down the track.
Beyond numbers alone, and above all else, a gender equal future has always demanded an unwavering and demonstrated respect for women.
Originally posted on kewfc.com
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