WA amateur club appoint pair as its A Grade coaches
COUSINS Larry and Dale Kickett will team up to take Perth amateur football club West Coast Cowan at least higher than the eighth position the A Grade team finished in 2008.
Larry, who played 227 WAFL games for East Perth and Claremont in the 1970s and '80s, has been appointed coach of the West Australian Amateur Football League club's senior side, with former AFL journeyman Dale his assistant.
In his introduction to the club, Larry said: "I am looking forward to working with each and every one of you to make our club one we can continue to be proud of.
"Each of us has a role to play both individually and as part of a team and we need to work hard and support each other to achieve the success we will be aiming for this year. I will be setting our sights high and I would like us to be the best we can and I will be there to support you."
West Coast Cowan are affiliated with WAFL club Claremont. The Perth-based WAAFL, formed in 1922, has 10 teams in the A Grade division. It is the second-tier competition in Western Australia behind the WAFL and has 44 clubs, 170 teams and around 10,000 registered players from grades A to G.
Numerous former AFL stars began their football in the WAAFL and it has served as a stepping stone for several of the State's top football administrators.
Larry Kickett has several years' experience as coach. He led East Perth's and Claremont's Colts sides and was mentor at the Karratha Falcons in the North Pilbara Football League.
Upon his return to Perth, he was appointed head coach of the East Perth Football Academy and he is one of only a handful of Western Australians who have achieved Level 3 AFL coaching accreditation.
Outside football, Kickett was president of the Aboriginal Sports Foundation and was a board member of the Council for the Centenary of Federation.
Dale Kickett's post-AFL career, where he played 181 games for five clubs from 1990 to 2002, has seen him at Clontarf Foundation, which runs the highly successful football academies in WA and the Northern Territory.
DARREN MONCRIEFF
Darren@AboriginalFootball.com.au
Tuesday, February 3, 2009
Last Modified on 03/02/2009 02:23