Female Football Taster Sessions
Filton College’s Female Football Development Centre will be running a series of female-only football taster sessions for girls aged 15-19. The idea behind this exciting initiative is to encourage girls in the region to ‘have-a-go’, and perhaps follow in the footsteps of local and national female football heroes or even the characters in ‘Bend It Like Beckham’.
The Best Football College in Country – announced by FA
Filton College’s highly rated Female Football Development Centre claimed membership to a new national elite by winning the much-coveted accolade of FA Charter Standard status earlier in the year. Since receiving the FA Charter Status, the Female Football Development Centre has moved from strength to strength with 27 girls from England and Wales currently enrolled.
Filton College’s Female Football Development Centre seeks to create sporting excellence by providing 16-hours a week professional coaching and mentoring structured around an academic timetable during a typical week.
Links with high-flying local FA Women’s Premier League Club
Filton College’s Female Football Development Centre has a strong educational partnership with Bristol Academy Women’s Football Club (Formerly Bristol Rovers WFC) the only premier women’s team in the region. Over half of the development centre players are also players for the BAWFC senior or reserve squads playing every Sunday. These players also train with the BAWFC team to further enhance their footballing potential.
Female Football Taster Sessions
To encourage girls to ‘have-a-go’ at the nations favourite sport, the College will be running female-only taster days in the new-year for potential players who are interested in meeting staff, view facilities and learning more about the structure of the Female Football Development Centre. The taster sessions will run on February 11th 2006, March 11th 2006, April 22nd 2006, May 13th 2006 and June 24th 2006, and will run to coincide with the College’s open days so that potential students will also received advice and guidance. Between 10am-11am student will have the opportunity to meet academic staff and have a look at the facilities. From 11am-1pm, the girls will take part if the taster session.
As an additional initiative Filton College - over the forthcoming months - will be contacting Heads of Sport within the region’s schools to invite them to have a FREE one-hour taster session held at their school. As part of the visit, coaching staff from the College Development Centre will hand-out Development Centre promotional materials and hand out free tickets to the next Bristol Academy Women’s Football Club home game.
For further details on female football at Filton College or to book onto any of the forthcoming FREE taster sessions, please contact Claire Scanlan on 0774 7487916 or email:
claire.scanlan@filton.ac.uk.