Mudgee’s Glen Willow Sporting Complex is the venue for two school-aged touch football tournaments, from today (Friday, April 29, 2016) and across the weekend.
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Today is the Super 8’s Western Area open schools competition, where the final schools in the region play off for selection in the Western team to play at State Cup level later on the year.
Then on Saturday and Sunday – from 8.30am Saturday and concludes around 1pm on Sunday – is the NSW Combined High Schools (CHS) Under 15s championships.
A total of 20 teams – boys and girls competitions - from across the state will be playing representing 10 regions of NSW including Hunter, Riverina, Sydney North, and Sydney South West.
There are five girls and four boys from Mudgee High School representing the Western region (pictured), as well as students from Gulgong and Kandos High schools.
This is the second year in a row that Alyssa Shoulders, Adam O’Connell and Mitchell Winsper will be representing Western in U/15s CHS touch.
They’ll be among the best under 15s players from around the state that will descend upon Glen Willow with the 280 hopefuls looking to strut their stuff for selectors, who will be there to choose a boys and girls team to represent NSW CHS later on in the year at Nationals.
Mudgee High will also have a presence today through their open boys and girls touch teams – coached by Penny Smith and Robyn Burke - playing at Glen Willow today in the Super 8’s competition.
Schools competing are Bathurst, Orange, Dubbo, Dunnedoo, Blayney, Lithgow, Parkes and Mudgee High.
A Western team is picked from these schools which will then compete against other schools in NSW at a State Cup. Games start 9am tomorrow morning and finish at 11.30am.
