Women - Niagara Rugby Union "A" Division - 2010 Season
"When you feel like giving up,
remember why you held on for so long in the first place."
- Rugby Friends are friends for life
2010 Season Re-Cap Captain's Report
The
2010 Stoney Creek women’s season started off with decent numbers. With
a number of returning players and the addition of a few new faces, we
were able to start the season off with a 20 women roster. Unfortunately
we were unable to keep these numbers alive and struggled to make a 15
player roster calling on old camels to come out and play in a few games.
On
a brighter note, we were able to strengthen and focus on new girls and
junior girls coming up for the following year. Annemaree, Vicki and
Rabbit have done a great job getting junior players from surrounding
highschools out, as well as Sennik concentrating on MAC girls to
continue playing rugby throughout the summer in preparation for their
fall season.
Our season consisted of a 10 game schedule where we
won 4 and lost 6. It was not till the end of the season where our
practices became more intense and people starting showing up. This in
turn showed the team that we are – a great one. At the end of the
season we managed to make the semi finals where we played the top
ranked team waterloo. The game was a hard fought battle that could have
gone either way but waterloo came out with a 15 – 5 victory. They later
went on to win the finals against Niagara 72 – 0.
The abilities
we have on our team and the eagerness to win is there; however we have
yet had the coaching to take us. Even though Sennik was our coach after
much persuasion, she had prior commitments on coaching the junior
Ontario team which left us without a coach for 6 weeks out of an 11
week season!
As we head into the 2011 season, we need to
concentrate on numbers not only from McMaster and Mohawk but girls that
live throughout Stoney Creek and Hamilton coming up from a junior
level. We need to progress within, and hope that the people we get
today last in our program where we can develop them in the positions
that will best be suited for a championship winning team.
~Nicole Pollice SCRFC Women's Captain