Girls Football

The Girls Football and Futsal teams have wrapped up another successful year. The CHS Open Girls team made it to the 2nd round, beating St. Ives High School emphatically in a 10-0 victory before narrowly losing to Willoughby Girls High School 2-1 in a very hard fought match. The team should be very proud of their efforts as all the girls played very well in both games. We are already looking towards next year to match or improve upon our results from this year.

The U15s Girls Bill Turner Cup team also made it to the 2nd round of competition this year. In the first round we faced a strong Randwick Girls High School team who took us all the way to extra time, as they held us to a 1-1 draw at full time, but with a last minute goal the team came away with a 2-1 victory. Unfortunately, we came up against Matraville Sports High School in the 2nd round, this school runs a program dedicated to Football development and so despite our best efforts, Matraville came away with the victory.

In the April School Holidays this year, our U15s team entered in the Female Football Festival, a tournament based in Kiama meant to promote the Women’s World Cup that was later in the year. Fort Street was the only school team entered in the entire competition, meaning we came up against highly skilled teams who had been playing together for years. The team still came away with 2 wins, despite the muddy conditions and very capable opponents. It was an incredible experience, all the girls learned a lot and enjoyed it very much.

The U16s and Opens futsal teams participated in the Eastern Suburbs Futsal Competitions alongside the boys this year and they both proved to be successful endeavours throughout. The U16s came out undefeated, winning the gold and qualifying for the state competition. The Opens team fell slightly short, losing on penalties to Mariah College in the final, however silver still earned us another spot at State for this year. The success of the futsal teams has been a long time coming, the last few years we have been working incredibly hard and playing so well, only missing out on State very narrowly, so all the girls should be very proud of our 2 qualifications this year. At State, the U16 was placed in a very tough group and with the loss of some key players due to injury, unfortunately they were unable to move on to the next round. The Opens team, however, played incredibly well making it all the way to the quarter finals where they were finally defeated.

I want to give a very big thank you to Ms. Ezekiel for all her efforts with the Girls Football teams this year, not only in organising but also coaching and supporting. None of the teams would have been able to get anywhere without her time and effort.

Nina Gibian

Year 10