Northern Heat players have done the hard yards over the Christmas and new year period, with excellent fitness testing results recorded at Saturday’s training session. Having been provided with a strength and conditioning program by Heat coach and former Sydney…
Girls aged 12-17 can nominate now to be a part of the new “Force Girls Development Clinics”. As announced late last year, pre-season 2023 will see the introduction of the Clinics to help prepare Youth Girls for the season ahead.…
Three stars of local footy have taken the next step forward in their careers, having made the cut to gain inclusion in the Sydney Swans Academy NAB League squads. Will Kelly (17, Port Macquarie) and Beau Guthrie (16, Coffs Harbour)…
“Physical fitness, you get to improve your communication, managing people, making decisions, leadership, and they pay you to do it!” Six great reasons to get into umpiring local AFL that were given by “Razor” Ray Chamberlain when asked what’s behind…
THE strong female presence in the AFL North Coast can no longer seen as being just on the ground. Women have been a driving force off the ground for many clubs for a long period of time yet in a…
Three of the North Coast’s brightest young footy prospects have been included in the Sydney Swans summer Benchmarking program, giving them the chance to press for inclusion in Swans underage teams. Will Kelly (17, Port Macquarie), Beau Guthrie (16, Coffs…
Mikey Luxton (18, from Grafton) and Hamish Anderson (18, from Sawtell) will trial for a place in the Southport VFL program over the next four weeks, starting from Tuesday 15 November. The region’s strong link to the Southport footy club…
Two of Northern NSW’s finest young female Indigenous talents have shone in a match played between the AFL NSW/ACT Indigenous and Multicultural teams in Sydney on Sunday. Deja Barlow (North Coast) and Ruby Spark (North West) have both participated in…
The second session of the Northern Heat program raised its own bar of expectations, building on what had already been an exhausting first session to continue to push the players beyond their comfort zones. The session continued the focus on…
In a real coup for the region, the Sydney Swans launched their inaugural First Nations Academy in Coffs Harbour last night with a strong contingent of new and current players taking part. The second Academy program launches in Port Macquarie…
