By JULIA MONTESANO
PASCOE Vale’s female footy factory just keeps delivering, with Sarah Dargan being picked up by Collingwood’s AFLW side this year.
The club also has some of their players suiting up in Cannons colours, including as Georgia Patrikios and Georgia Marsland.
Looking ahead to this year, their EDFL senior women’s side has taken steps to ensure that the club continues to build its Female Football Program.
Terriann Seath is the Senior Operations Manager of Pascoe Vale’s Female Football Program and has announced a new coaching structure for the club.
“Sam Scollo is the head of our female football department and he's our female coaching coordinator as well,” she explained.
“Sam's basically the head of the female football coaching department, that's for the juniors and seniors.
“And then we have Adam (Tardiff) who is leading the second team (in the EDFL).
“Then both of them have assistant coaches and then we have a team of other coaches that will focus on the kicking, and structures and stuff like that.
“All up, there's about six of them (coaches),”
Seath says that coaching was an area of focus in the off-season and explained why the Panthers have gone with a team coaching approach for the new competition.
“We've identified that we really needed to focus on our coaching, especially after last year, and not focusing on just having one coach there,” she said.
“The team coaching is such a better idea; they can get more in-depth and can get a lot more out of coaching in smaller groups.
“They have coaches designed to focus on different things and everyone has a turn with each different coach.”
Looking to the season ahead, Seath says that the club’s focus is largely developmental.
“As a female football program, our focus probably is development more than anything else,” Seath said.
“It's very skill-based, our training, rather than just playing the game and winning.
“It's about teaching them how to do those things and if you get all those fundamentals done, it'll all just keep going.
“I guess for the seniors, with female football being so new, they would not have got the fundamental training that the Under 9s and Under 11s are going to get.
“They didn't have that pathway back then.
“When they were 14, they were shipped out and told: 'see you later, you're too old, you can't play with boys', and there was really not much for them to go, whereas hopefully now we'll have a much stronger team when our girls go through.”
If you are interested at playing football for Pascoe Vale, please phone Women’s Co-Ordinator, Sally Rees on 0413 380 850.
