The Castlemaine Secondary College’s Year 11-12 Senior Girls soccer side is set to feature in the 2025 School Sport Victoria Secondary Football State Finals tomorrow at the Darebin International Sports Complex in a bid to claim state honours.
The highly competitive local side finished third in 2023, second in 2024, and are determined to try and take the next step in 2025 and nab victory in the competition, which will pit them against some of the most talented state schools and private school sides in the state.
The Express caught up with some of the team members at their final training session at the Castlemaine Goldfields Football Club’s home ground at Chewton Soldiers Memorial Park last Friday evening.
The girls, who range from year nine through to year 11, said they felt the best prepared they had ever been for the comp thanks to the coaching and support of the Castlemaine Goldfields Football Club Women’s sides.
CSC team member Frankie said they’d had four training sessions at the Goldfields club base and four lunchtime training sessions at school with four of the Castlemaine Goldfields Women’s team players who made the time to come and work with them.
“It has been fantastic. We had four different women’s players work drills with us including Kaso Sparks and Sophie Milton who were both Young Matildas and have lots of experience and advice to offer,” Frankie said.
The side is set to tackle Ballarat High School, Brunswick Secondary College and Greater Shepparton in Pool B of the round robin competition today and hope to go one better than 2024 and bring home the cup.
“We finished runners-up to Rowville, which is a Melbourne Victory Academy School, in 2024, so it was a pretty amazing effort for a regional school. We hope we can go one better in 2025,” team member Elspeth said.
Meanwhile all four of Castlemaine Goldfields FC’s senior football sides and 11 junior sides contested the first round of the Bendigo Amateur Soccer League finals series last weekend.
