WEST Coast Cowan Football Club is leading an online kicking competition that could earn them $5000 to improve facilities at City Beach Oval.
The amateur club is part of a Defence Force Kicking Competition and its members and supporters have already kicked 283km, the most of any other WA club.
President Isaak Dury said the club would use the money to upgrade lighting so it could host night games and to redevelop its clubrooms.
Dury said the club had been working with the Town of Cambridge, local sporting clubs like the West Coast Junior Football Club and Green Range Cricket Club and other related organisations over the past 18 months to develop a comprehensive redevelopment plan for the facilities.
“Despite the iconic location, the clubroom facilities at City Beach Oval are some of the worst in the western suburbs,” he said.
“The $5000 from the kicking comp would be a great contribution to the sinking fund that our club has been steadily building up to ultimately be invested in the significant upgrades.”
The competition runs for the duration of the AFL season.
Visit www.defencejobs.gov.au/armyaward to help get West Coast Cowan across the line.
- The club will honour life member and former president Dale Rakich, who plays his 300th game this weekend.
Rakich played his first game at West Coast Cowan with the colts in 1994 and was quickly promoted to the league side.
He was the league fairest and best in 1999 and part of premiership teams in 2006 and 2007.
Fellow club member Chris Busch said it was a rare achievement to play 300 games in the amateur ranks.
The game starts at 12.30pm.