north east regional extra | May 26 - June 1, 2021
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May 26 - June 1, 2021
◆ ROLE MODEL: St Patrick’s Primary School students and Wangaratta Rovers footballers Hannah Carroll and Lara Maples, with teacher and fellow footballer Jess Whitehead. PHOTO: Kieren Tilly
Jess returns to her field of dreams
By SIMONE KERWIN
WHEN Jess Whitehead finished her last game of school footy in year 12, she took a moment. “I remember thinking at the end, this is the last game
I’ll ever be able to play,” the 32 year old said. A decade or so down the track though, the local primary school teacher and footy fanatic glimpsed an opportunity to return to the field. “I was talking to Chris
Doyle and he said Wangaratta Rovers were getting a girls’ team together,” Jess said. “I said, ‘I’m in - what do I have to do to make this happen?’ and it went from there.” Already closely involved
with Wangaratta City Football Club, where she’d channelled her football endeavours and played 17 seasons of soccer, Jess joined forces with Celia Piesse as co-coach of the Rovers’ inaugural team in the North
East Border Female Football League. Since then, she’s been an integral part of the development of the Hawks’ female football arm, and now plays in and co-coaches the open women’s team, umpires the
under 17s most weeks, drives the bus which carries young players to games around the region, and gladly takes on sundry duties that are part and parcel of football club involvement.
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