The Grasshopper girls are now well and truly up and running, with 28 girls ( and growing) now enjoying regular training sessions !!!

BECAUSE OF THE AMOUNT OF GIRLS NOW IN THE UNDER 11/12 WE ARE HOPING  TO TAKE 2 TEAMS TO THE TOURNAMENT ON 21ST AND 22ND JUNE AT THE MARSH ACADEMY CAN WE ALL MEET THERE ON SATURDAY AT 13.30 AND SUNDAY AT 11.00 AND GOOD LUCK GIRLS.

Its been really enjoyable and great fun, but of course this would not be possible without help, so a MASSIVE thanks to our dedicated coaches and volunteers for giving up their time, so Alan, Coreen,Katie,Michelle, Charlotte, Wayne and Jim,well done and thanks for all your great work and effort its going to be good to see girls in the famous green & yellow HOPPERS kit next season.

Thanks Emma

Want too find out more info about womens footy and whats going on,then visit this link ... http://www.thefa.com/Womens/

Hi and welcome to the page of our HOPPER girls.

This is taken from th FAs website, Football is the fastest growing and top female sport, this season 133,000 girls are competing in affiliated league competition football !!

FA research has show that more than 1.5 million girls under the age of 15 have played some form of football in the past 12 months

As a club we are very excited about being able to offer a girls only training session on a Monday night from 6pm-7.30pm,on the Rype,Lydd. Training will be available for girls aged 8-14.

Our aim at Grasshoppers is  to enter girls teams into the East kent youth league next season at age groups under 9/10s,under 11/12s, and under 13/14s. We now have lots of volunteers helping out, I have taken on the role of assistant manager along side another mum Sarah who is the new manager of the under 11/12 girls and we have two fantastic coaches, Wayne and Charlotte. But Of course it takes a lot of planning and time and we will need parents to volunteer to help out in any way they can from managing, this will mean going on a level 1 coaching course (which the club will pay for),to admin help, transport getting to and from matches and finding sponsors.

Also joining us in our new venture we are very lucky to have two great female coaches in Katie Flack, who currently plays for Gillingham ladies first team, & also works for the Brazilian soccer school & soccertec she is helping to coach the under 9/10 with Jim another volunteer who has also just taken on the managers role for these girls, our other female coach is another popular local girl Coreen Baldwin, who has a lot of experience coaching girls football, and has coached at Gillingham FC, and currently coaches for simply soccer. All of us are FA level 1 quailified, and have passed child protection & emergency first aid courses and have been crb checked.

We hope to make your childs time with us a lot of fun whilst teaching them the skills and techniques they will need to compete as part of a great HOPPER team..

You can contact myself on-07852996719

or email me at-emma.bolton3@btinternet.com

You can also contact  Dave OHara  on,  daveohara@lyddgrasshoppersjfc.com  or 07950 118399.

Thanks for taking the time to visit our page and we look forward to seeing you all soon, please check back soon for updates and a progress report 

ps

A big HOPPERS thanks to mandy for all the coffee runs, ta mate.

Also a massive thanks to the other coaches Alan, Katie,Wayne,Jim,Charlotte& Coreen for giving up their time for this.

Any comments or feedback ? please feel free to leave a message in our guestbook on the website, or you can e-mail myself or Dave.

Thanks Emma