On Sunday 7th February, 30 children from OJFC had a memorable afternoon as Honour Guards at the Pheonix vs Perth Glory match at the Westpac stadium. A huge thank you to Solomon Concessio for all his organisation which enabled this to happen. We would also like to thank the adult helpers on the day Paul Smart, Rachel Porteus, Alastair Henshaw and Shayne Venn.
There are more images in the Photo Gallery.
Registrations for the Onslow Junior Football Club for the 2016 season open on 1st February. Please visit the Registrations page for further details.
The dates and times of the streamed team trials have now been published and you can find them on the Trials for Streamed Teams page.
Onslow and North Wellington JFCs, through Milan’s 2-Club Academy, are offering a 12-day Boca Juniors (Argentina) Development Camp from 23 September – 6 October, 2016. This camp is only offered to Streamed A & B players born in 2003 and 2004. Amongst many highlights included are eight (8) Elite Training Sessions and six (6) football matches and after match functions.
We currently have 29 people confirmed. We have 3 SPOTS OPEN for any interested players/parents/coaches.
For more details on this one-of-a-kind experience please contact our 2-Club Coaching Development Coordinator Milan Bartosz at milan.soccer1@yahoo.com
The Annual General Meeting for Onslow Junior Football Club details are as follows:
Date: Wed 21 October, 7-8pm
Venue: the “Gathering Space” in the Khandallah Church, 33 Ganges Road
Please come along and find out more about your club and the successful running of such a large Junior football club.
The OJFC annual prizegiving was held on 30th August 2015 with over 760 children attending. Noah Billingsley was the special guest, interviewed by our President Steve Ware. Noah then spent time between each of the 3 prizegiving sessions signing autographs on footballs, shorts, shoes and certificates and chatting with the children.
There were approximately 240 certificates handed out awarding the following 3 categories for each team – Most Improved Player, Most Committed Player and the Most Valuable Player. 40 children received the OJFC banner which represents long service at the club and exiting in G14, their final year with OJFC. From Grade 9 through to Grade 14 an individual player is selected to be the Player of the Grade, which are our most coveted awards.
This year the Player of the Grade awards went to the following players – congratulations:
Grade 9: Oliver Gardner
Grade 10: Jamie Wildash-Chan
Grade 11: Hiroshi Craigie
Grade 12: Max Falconer
Grade 13: Lachlan Patchell
Grade 14: Callum Goodwin
This is a list of all of the certificate winners – well done everyone !
| Grade 7 | |||
| Team | Most Improved Player | Most Committed Player | Most Valuable Player |
| Bankots | Layla Parsons | Conor Godfrey | Aston Williams |
| Bengals | Archie Ferguson | Zac White | Alex Havlik |
| GOSL Fitzroys | Mia Barr | Holly Robins | Annabel Tuck |
| Hindipurs | Lachlan Millar | Leo Sullivan | Zach Benson |
| Kaukaus | Henry Wilton | Jake Berry | Cohen Faitaua |
| Motuekas | Samuel Hunter | Bentley Faulkner | Jacob Jefferson |
| Ramphals | Henry Durno | George Dinnan | Will Graham |
| Rangoons | Hannes Kasper | Luke Wiltshire | Sam Wiltshire |
| Raroas | Gabrielle Healy | Sefton Mitchell | Hadlee Maurd |
| Seftons | Neel Khalate | Lachlan Gardner | Hamish Crookston |
| Spencers | Max Delahunty | Amelie McClintock | James Allan |
| Thatchers | Ross Miller | Cooper Gawn | Riley Allison |
| Winstons | Oliver Prebble | Grayson Stanway | Thomas Nischalke |
| Grade 8 | |||
| Team | Most Improved Player | Most Committed Player | Most Valuable Player |
| Birlas | Theo Garratt | Oskar Wimmers | George Allen |
| Ganges | Regan Kwan | Samuel Beardmore | Ieuan Griffiths |
| Karachis | Charlie Blewitt | Chiaki Lin | Lukas Heinrich |
| Khans | Cameron Cooper | Angus Horner | Alfie Crookston |
| Narbardas | Samuel Hubscher | Jackson de Jong | Sam Law |
| GOSL Oraris | Keegan Marks | Isabella Coughtrey | Caterina Cao |
| Rajkots | Vincent Balance | Rhys Gordon | Ruben Dray |
| Ramas | Tayla Adamson | Ryan Henshaw | Oliver Elliott |
| Ravis | Toby Shannon | Lucas Dowdell | Connor Kemp |
| Sanchis | Tom Jacobsen | Josh Chambers | Scarlett O’Donnell |
| Sataras | Gabby Davy | Tom Cook | Jack Robinson |
| GOSL Simlas | Kayla Leigh | Gabriella Freeman | Leonora Webb |
| Tensings | Arnav Singh | Rory Chester | Sam Guzman |
| Warus | Oliver Bennett | Blake Porteous | Lucas Colon-Rios |
| Grade 9 | |||
| Team | Most Improved Player | Most Committed Player | Most Valuable Player |
| Calcuttas | Max Young | Lara Smith | Caleb Byrne |
| Clives | Harry Chan | Eli Prasad | Lachlan Parsons |
| Dekkas | Thomas Bruce | Abe Jones | Charlie Johns |
| GOSL Delhis | Kate McHardy | Lucy Pottinger | Olive Lynch-Gerrard |
| Everests | Oliver Howorth | Jayden Bradshaw | Luca Evett |
| Gavaskers | Henry Hayes | Camden Gilchrist | Matthew Crawford |
| GOSL Hekes | Ava Sutherland | Alicia Houston | Emily Holmes |
| Indiras | Alex Black | Ben Musker | Daniel Barber |
| Kabuls | Elliot McIntosh | James McTeigue | Blake Chambers |
| Mandalays | Finleigh Frost | Henry Walrond | Finn Graham |
| Nepals | Jayden Booth | Fraser Forsyth | Murad Salayev |
| GOSL Sita | Phoebe Williamson | Ella Barr | Olivia Catherwood |
| Swanseas | Alex McAslan | Conor Allison | Joshua Brown |
| Grade 10 | |||
| Team | Most Improved Player | Most Committed Player | Most Valuable Player |
| Agras | Ollie Taylor | Lachlan Macgregor | James Wilkinson |
| Amapurs | Stella Blomfield | Jigs Ibarra | Alexander O’Donnell |
| Churchills | Ben Neville | Nathan Falkner | Sascha Hunt |
| Elloras | Jamie Latham | Theo Morton | Sarah Griffiths |
| Krishnas | Elliot Browne | James Waititi | Tim Williams |
| GOSL Madras | Bella Domaneschi | Emily Grethe | Natascha Casey |
| Ngatotos | Damon Sue | Sebastian McIvor | Lucy Armitage |
| Quettas | Connor Haywood | Jack Durno | William Ngawati |
| Grade 11 | |||
| Team | Most Improved Player | Most Committed Player | Most Valuable Player |
| Ambalas | Cameron Phillips | Eliza O’Donnell | Tom Hayes |
| Cashmeres | James Tuck | Alex Thompson | Noah Abbott |
| GOSL Chartwells | Olive Young | Zoe Adamson | Hannah Ross |
| Cockaynes | Ryan Lee | Scarlett Fraser | Jacob Butel |
| GOSL Colways | Frances Montgomery | Miranda Brown | Olivia Empson |
| Imrans | Dylan Turner | Cooper Davis-Wren | Ollie Baylis |
| Kanpurs | William Gallagher | Jack Green | Malachi Smith |
| GOSL Kenyas | Ella Matthews | Annamie Hargaden-Sumner | Harriet Mills |
| Tuis | Savio Diego Concessio | Morgan Smart | Theo Ettema |
| Vasantas | Josh Cassidy | Lawrence White | Haveesha Perera |
| Grade 12 | |||
| Team | Most Improved Player | Most Committed Player | Most Valuable Player |
| Amritsars | Toby Jurke | Luke Piper | James Martin |
| Awaruas | Joshua Henshaw | James Laidler | Liam Ross |
| Cluthas | Edward Sindlen | William Donnelly | Lucy Evans |
| Kapils | Skye Solomon | Robert Davis | JL Ibarra |
| Karamus | Ben Latham | Luke Chowdhury | Henry Naish |
| Lochiels | Joseph Alexander | Olivia Browne | Asher Duffield |
| GOSL Lohia | Neve Sutherland | Carly Smith | Caitlin Revell |
| GOSL Orissas | Emily Lawson | Maia Hikuroa | Sophie Coyle |
| Grade 13 | |||
| Team | Most Improved Player | Most Committed Player | Most Valuable Player |
| Benares | Oliver McCready | Dominic Sinkins | Zach Coventry |
| GOSL Bombays | Grace McGee | Hannah Leitch | Samantha Whyte |
| Jubilees | Angus Thompson | Max Jordan | Arlo Doak |
| GOSL Lucknows | Mikayla Strahorn | Sarah Armitage | Caitlin Howorth |
| Maldives | Meg Wilde | Kale Huddleston | Sean McAndrew |
| Mysores | Bailey Kelynack | Thomas Milicich | Jonathan Crowe |
| Rothsays | Hamish Doogan | Ben Arbuckle | Chris Mairs |
| Grade 14 | |||
| Team | Most Improved Player | Most Committed Player | Most Valuable Player |
| GOSL Burmas | Sophie Brown | Brooke Rickard | Emma Coleman |
| Croftons | Michael Winsley | Alexandra Boyce | Kian Christian |
| Gurkhas | Ryan Cornish | Elizabeth Crowe | Harry McCarthy |
| GOSL Himalayas | Clare Tebbs | Lucy Whyte | Jade Palmer |
| Kamlas | Finlay Lemmens | Sereyebote Keat | Raffaele Moro |
| Nalandas | Daniel Scott | Garath Kirkwood | Sacha Thomson |
The Infintiy Foundation have recently provided OJFC with a grant of $2,000 which was used to part fund the purchase of 19 sets of goal nets for the Club. The purchase of these nets has allowed for a greatly enhanced playing experience for a large number of the Club’s members and OJFC would like to record our gratitude to Infinity.
For the first time OJFC Hoodies, Jackets and Scarves are available for purchase. They are perfect for those cold, frosty, winter days. Football Central are the suppliers so please visit http://footballcentral.co.nz/collections/club-shop-onslow for more details.
Noah Billingsley and Clayton Lewis have both just represented New Zealand in the Junior All Whites team at the 2015 FIFA U20 World Cup. It was a great experience for so many young aspiring OJFC players to watch Noah and Clayton play against Myanmar in Wellington in the U20 World cup match. Not only did New Zealand win that match 5-1 but both Noah and Clayton scored a goal a piece. The Junior All Whites qualified out of the pool games and into the last 16 for the first time ever.
Noah played for the ‘A Streamed’ team – Onslow Bandipurs from Grade 10 -14. Clayton Lewis played for the Grade 14 ‘A streamed’ team the Onslow Imrans.
OJFC are also very proud to announce that 2 Ex-Onslow girls Ella Wilson and Francesca Grange and current Onslow player Maggie Jenkins are all named in the NZ U17 Training camp in July 2015. The purpose of the training camp is to build up towards qualifying for the 2016 FIFA U17 Women’s World Cup. This is a fantastic achievement.
Please visit our Success Stories page to follow the stories of other successful Onslow players.
The Wynton Rufer tournament for Grades 7, 8, 9 and 10 was held over 23/24th May 2015. The club sent numerous teams and it sounds as though some of those teams did exceptionally well and had enormous fun playing in a tournament. Please go to the tournament page for more details.
