For Australian Youth representatives, Kimberley Sue See and Chloe Crotty, the chance to come back to play at a Junior State Cup level is all about having fun.
The pair is part of the Caboolture 18’s Girls team at this year’s Queensland Junior State Cup event, with the side looking to take out back-to-back titles in the division.
The majority of the side have had the benefit of playing together for several years and also at many levels, from Junior State Cup through to Sunshine Coast Pineapples level and for a few of them even higher.
Sue See, Crotty and Evania Pelite-Denny were all part of the Australian 18’s Girls side that beat New Zealand 3-0 in the 2013 Super Trans Tasman Series and enjoy being able to come back to a Junior State Cup level and play alongside the team they’ve grown up playing with.
“I always love Junior State Cup, it’s a really well run carnival.”
“I think just the atmosphere, it’s such a big competition and there is all different levels of Touch and it’s great to see people develop, the younger ones coming through,” Sue See said.
“We’re all pretty much good friends, because we’ve been playing together for a while, we play at all sorts of levels, like Sunny Coast at club and Friday nights in Brisbane, we’re really well gelled altogether,” Crotty said.
“It’s not like a team, it’s just like a whole group of friends,” Sue See said.
The 2013 event marks the last Junior State Cup for Crotty as a player, but she’s sure she’ll be back in the years to come.
“It’s actually really sad. My little sister is playing so I’ll be back as well,” Crotty said.
While Sue See still has one year remaining at a Junior State Cup level, she received some exciting news recently, being named in the Australian Women’s Open National Training Squad. The 17-year-old says that while it came as a shock to her, she can’t wait to learn from some of the best players in the game.
“I’m so excited, I’m really nervous but, just playing and training with such talented, good players, they are so experienced. But it will be a really good experience, even if I don’t make it I’ll just take the opportunity to learn from them,” Sue See said.
The Caboolture side took on a talented Toowoomba team early on day two of the competition, including Australian Youth representatives Shenae Ciesiolka and Toni Wells. The game didn’t disappoint, finishing in a 5-all draw.
To play their Australian teammates was a fun experience for the Caboolture pair, who enjoyed being tested by their friends.
“It was very tough actually, it was neck and neck the whole way, both teams didn’t give up, it was good,” Crotty said.
“It was fun to play against them,” Sue See said.
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