This weekend some of the best players from the Limestone Coast Women’s Football League will head to Victor Harbor to compete in the 2024 Think! Road Safety SA Country Football Championships.


After the success of the LCWFL early this year the South East will once again send a team to compete against the Central, Eastern, Eyre Peninsula, Northern and Southern Districts zones.


The team comprises players from Casterton Sandford, Kybybolite, Mundulla, North Gambier, Penola, South Gambier and emergencies from Millicent.


Mundulla’s Erin Horsnell will captain the side with teammate Kellsie Turner as vice captain.


Kybyboilte’s Chris Boston will coach the side, having recently won the LCWFL premiership in April. Helping him with the coaching duties will be Casterton Sandford’s Scarlett Jarrad as assistant coach.


The South East will be represented by Casterton Sandford’s Chloe Finnigan, Hinemoa Biddle-Maitland and Libby Altorfer, Kybybolite’s Dellie Brown, Ella Boston, Jedah Huf,


Taylor Ryan and Kate Edmonds, Millicent’s Sienna Laslett and Amber Chester, Mundulla’s


Turner, Zoe Hawker, Horsnell, Kate Maddern and Mel Maddern, North Gambier’s Tess Andrews, Alice Tentye, Chloe Newton, Chloe Perryman and Fiona Young, Penola’s Heidi Berkin, Ellise Berkin and Shandeen Balshaw, and South Gambier’s Jarrah Altschwager and Sophie Wight.


The women’s championships started in 2018, with the South East side yet to hold the trophy.


Boston said the team was looking good during their training sessions together so far.


“There’s quite a mix of youth and experience, we have been training together for about five weeks and it’s all been going well,” he said.


Boston said he was still uncertain as to how his side will go on the weekend but is confident that it matches up well with the conditions forecast for the weekend.


“I think if they play well as a team then we should do alright, we are not a tall side, we’re a smaller running side which should suit the conditions on the weekend,” he said.


Boston will be relying on their number one ruck to have a big impact on the game as well as other contributors from the midfield.


“We’re reliant on our number one ruck Chloe Finnigan, we will be reliant on her as well as players like Tess Andrews and Jedda Huf and also Dellie Brown and Erin Horsnell to get it out of the middle as often as possible,” he said.


Overall Boston and the group are excited for the weekend with the mixed ages in the team.


The South East Women’s team will kick off the weekend tomorrow night as they face Eyre Peninsula under the lights at Victor Harbor Oval.