Tayla has the world at her feet Louise Michael reports:
HAVING her name in lights on Broadway is the ultimate dream for a young Two Wells lady, Tayla McDougall (below). She is well on her way after accepting a position at a dance school in Sydney, “ED5 International,” which offers Australia’s only two-year full time Diploma in Performing Arts course. The amazing thing is Tayla has only just completed Year 12, finishing with a Merit award for a perfect score in her Year 12 Creative Arts subject at Xavier College in Gawler. As a recipient of a Merit Award, Tayla has been invited to attend a ceremony, with all other students who gained a perfect score, at Government House in Adelaide on February 10, but as she has just moved to Sydney, her mother, Kim, will accept it on her behalf. Tayla has been learning dance at Alana’s Dance Studio at Gawler since she was four years old, and has entered competitions around Adelaide since she was seven. When she was just eight years old, Tayla auditioned for the Australia Ballet performance of “The Nutcracker,” and was one of 12 selected from 150 who auditioned. “In April last year, I spent three weeks with the Australian Youth Performing Arts team in London shows and Disneyland in Paris and Hong Kong, which was great,” Tayla said. For her Year 12 Creative Arts subject, Tayla produced, choreographed and performed in the Xavier College’s production of the musical “Fame,” with excellent reviews.
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“The bottom line is we need players,” states Mark Thompson, junior football manager of the Virginia Football Club. Declining numbers in the junior sides of the club last year saw Virginia unable to field a full side in all junior grades and relied on surplus players of the opposition, as well as younger Virginia players playing up a grade, to be able to provide a team each week. One contributing factor to dwindling numbers is the location of Virginia, which Mark describes as being geographically handicapped, “by being just that bit too far from the metropolitan area and at the same time not being far enough out for the country”. Disappointment in these numbers is felt by all teams in the Adelaide Plains Football League, and this has driven the Virginia Football Club to address the decline with strength and professionalism. In what Mark describes as a ‘changing of the guard’ in relation to an almost completely new committee being elected at the end of the 2013 season and a mammoth 12 months of heralding in new changes to increase the junior ranks and ensure the ongoing viability of the club, Virginia is ready to compete
Natalie Centenera reports: on a level playing field with all the other clubs in the APFL and provide a great club in which young players can develop their ability and enjoy the game. All coaching staff are currently in the process of obtaining Level 1 qualifications through the SANFL. This is Mark’s second year at Virginia and he is passionate about the club and the game, this attitude combined with experience, sees this four time premiership coach dedicated to providing an environment that facilitates players’ development. Last weekend he attended the AFL National Coaching Conference at Etihad stadium in Melbourne, which is an annual gathering of coaches from Australia and abroad who share ideas and catch up with the latest trends in coaching. As well as a professional coaching push, Virginia actively sought certain people who were deemed best able to help them achieve “optimum result for effort ratio”, targeting people with savvy business experience as well as those who had been around the football scene for a long time.
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