AFL Cairns Juniors

SUNDAY FEBRUARY 12 2012

Please contact your local club for more information or contact AFL Cairns Office on 4042 3000

AFL Cairns is launching Summer AFL 9’s next month, February 2012. The 8 week competition will be held on Wednesday Night February 1 and finishing on March 21, 2012. We encourage individuals, family groups, businesses, football clubs, committees and friends to join up and create your “own” team.

St Andrews College and St Francis Xavier are both through to the State finals after winning the North Queensland regional finals of the Northern States Cup (high school) and the Gold Coast Suns Cup (primary school) in Townsville on Wednesday.

St Andrews College will be hoping to go back to back on Monday night (May 23^rd) when they join 12 other Cairns primary schools in the 2011 NAB Gold Coast Suns Cup at Cazalys Stadium.

A strong 50 man squad has been training for the past three weeks with the hope of making the U14s Cairns Lions team to compete at the 2011 North Queensland Country Championships in Mackay on June 11^th & 12^th where the Lions will be hoping to make it 7 championship victories in a row

Cairns local and now Gold Coast SUNS key defender, Jarrod Harbrow joined local Member and Parliamentary Secretary Assisting the Premier in the Far North, Steve Wettenhall at Cazalys Stadium today in the lead up to the AFL Premiership match to be played in Cairns in July.

Coaches, players and spectators at all levels of AFL Queensland are being encouraged by the Queensland Government and the game’s governing body to be 100 percent positive this weekend- 6^th-8^th May.

The Statewide Positive or Pointless weekend is designed to encourage positive comments from all in the football community.

Well Done to all players, coaches and umpires who attended the U17's Cairns Lions Melbourne Footy Feast

The Piccones Cairns Lions will attempt to go back to back in the 2011 U16 Queensland Country Championships to be held in Rockhampton from April 15^th to 17^th.

The championships will include teams from Cairns, Cape York, Townsville, Mackay, Capricornia, Bundaberg/Wide Bay and Darling Downs.

The Piccones U17 Cairns Lions team has been named for the 2011 Melbourne Footy Challenge scheduled for March 31^st through to April 3^rd.

Cairns foursome Jermaine Wardle, Damien Dewis, Jackson Brown and Andrew Brown will head to Brisbane this Friday to embark on a week long series of trial games and training sessions with the U18 Queensland Scorpions squad as they attempt to make the final Queensland U18 team.

The annual AFL Cairns Level 1 coaching course was held on Saturday with 45 new coaches in attendance. Coaches either undertook the junior (Auskick to U11), youth (U11 to U18) or the senior (seniors, reserves, women’s league) course preparing themselves for the season ahead.

AFL Cairns Juniors would like to thank John Piccone for his unwavering support and involvement in junior AFL. Piccones SUPA IGA is again the major sponsor for our U18's Competition and is the proud sponsor of all our Cairns Lions Representative Squads. 

The Piccones U18 Cairns Lions have taken out the inaugural U18 North Queensland All Stars tournament in heavy conditions at Cazalys on Sunday.