Demon delight for students

Melbourne Demon’s footballers arrived to legions of excited football fans when they conducted a football Superclinic at Leongatha Primary School last Tuesday (23).
The clinic catered for students from Leongatha Primary School, South Gippsland Specialist School and St Lawrence O’Toole Primary School, with more than 300 students in attendance. The clinic was repeated Tuesday afternoon at Korumburra Primary School with another 300 students taking part.
Melbourne Football Club hosted the clinic with players running skills workshops and question and answer sessions.
Teammates Jack Fitzpatrick, Christian Salem, Jay Kennedy-Harris, Matt Jones, Heritier Lumumba, Viv Michie and Colin Garland lead workshops on handballing, tackling, speckies, goal-kicking and hip and shouldering.
The clinic is part of AFL allocated visits, coordinated by Chelsea Caple, football development manager for Gippsland.
“These clinics offer a great opportunity for children to have access to the players,” Miss Caple said.
Aside from having a good time teaching some football skills, player Hertier Lumumba offered students a few words of wisdom between tackles.
“The number one thing you need to do, no matter what sport or job it is, is to listen,” Mr Lumumba said.

Football games: Ryan from Leongatha Primary School having a good laugh during the Melbourne Football Club Superclinic last Tuesday.

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Posted by Sarah Vella on Jun 30 2015. Filed under Sport. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. You can leave a response or trackback to this entry