The Midwest Football Academy are the proud owners of new team gear after winning the West Australian Football Commission’s 2008 Youth Survey. Academy members from Year 8 – 12 from both Geraldton Senior College and John Willcock College all participated in the survey after being made aware of it by the AFL School Ambassador.
The on-line survey questioned the boys about their football playing history, their views of the current rules, opinions of umpires and spectator behaviour.
Completion of the survey became an in-class activity for many of the boys and was fully supported by teaching staff and football operations personnel. Not only will the information obtained prove useful to the WA Football Commission but it also provided some great discussion points for school tasks.
Midwest Football Academy members took a huge interest in the outcome of the competition with many constantly requesting to know if ‘we had won’ even before the survey had closed.
It was a very excited group of students who were notified during November last year that their entries had been successful.The funding received was used to purchase football shorts, socks and a specially designed footy jumper which will be used as the Yamatji Tigers alternate playing strip.
The products arrived this week and the boys are looking forward to wearing the new gear in their first match of the year.Thanks from all involved at the Midwest Football Academy to the WA Football Commission for offering opportunities like these.