2009 AFL Women's National Championships begin in PerthIT is likened to climbing Mt Everest, seriously considering a manned Mars landing, even to make some sense of the government's emission trading scheme. Not totally impossible, just extremely difficult to do. It is for a women's football team to defeat Victoria at the national championships.
That mission gets underway in Perth today at the 11th AFL Women's National Championships and it falls first to the ACT when they open the championships at Bassendean Oval (10.30am). The Victorians remain unbeaten at all championships held since the 1990s.
The championships are split into two divisions. Victoria, Queensland, the ACT and hosts Western Australia are in Division 1, with South Australia, New South Wales, Northern Territory and a second WA side competing in Division 2.
West Australian Women's Football League player-coach (with the Coastal Titans) Krystle Rivers, who we featured in March, takes her place among the Sandgropers side.
Games throughout the championships will be played at WAFL venues including at Claremont, East Fremantle, Fremantle and Bassendean ovals. The Division 1 Grand Final will be played as a curtain-raiser to the West Coast-v-Geelong AFL match at Subiaco Oval on Sunday, June 7.
DARREN MONCRIEFF
Darren@AboriginalFootball.com.au
Wednesday, June 3, 2009
Last Modified on 03/06/2009 02:05