Tara Murray
East Sunbury has locked in its coach for its inaugural Essendon District Football League women’s side.
The Thunder have made a focus of getting a women’s side up and going for next season, last week announcing their coach and female football manager.
Lisa Borg will return to coaching senior women’s football after being appointed the Thunder’s coach.
Borg has coached both Kyneton and Gisborne and had played 199 games, across a number of different clubs including Kyneton, Gisborne, the Sunbury Lions and Sunbury Kangaroos.
Borg said she was keen to get back into coaching senior female football.
“I’m pretty excited,” she said. “ I met with [vice-president] Paul [Wigginton] and [secretary] Sam Rushworth] and their excitement for the women’s program made me sign on the dotted line.
“I think it was time for me to get back into coaching women’s. I hurt myself last year, so I decided I wanted to jump into senior coaching.
“I did juniors for a little bit now and the opportunity came up to get back into women’s coaching.”
Borg said having been around Kyneton and Gisborne when they are starting up their women’s programs she knows that it takes a lot of hard work to get it up and running.
She said there had been a bit of interest already in players looking to join the side, but knows they need more to get the side up.
“I think we’ve had about 14 players get in contact since we started advertising two weeks ago,” she said.
“I’ve spoken to a few people who have said that they might be interested and thinking about it.
“It’s a good time and it’s a good opportunity. Sunbury is just getting better and there’s enough for three teams.
“We’ll see what happens.”
Borg said while she would love to play game 200, she would see what happens as she recovers from a knee injury.
Borg said it was nice to have a women’s senior football operations manager in place as well to help provide support for her and the side.
Keira Gledhill has been appointed to that role.
“Having that support from the president and Sam and the committee being on board will help me develop the team and focus on team success,” Borg said.
“Having a female football manager shows how much they want to do it. I’m excited and bring a lot of experience and want to build a good culture and good club.”
Borg said they would likely have a get together to meet all the players, before setting up the plans for pre-season.
She said anyone interested, no matter their skill level, was welcome to come on board.
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