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Canadian Junior Returns From Australian Experience

Permanent link for this entry December 10, 2007 by Mike McFarlane | View Comments (0)

Braedon Reynolds with Sydney Swans starsBraedon Reynolds, a promising junior from the North Delta Junior Australian Football League (NDJAFL) has had an experience of a lifetime for any international player, a chance to play football in Australia.

Spending 4 weeks in Australia to visit a family friend, Braedon wanted to keep his footy skills sharp as he would be trying out for the Canadian U17 (Wolfpack) team that was getting ready to play the USA in August '07. And so took the opportunity to help improve his football and contacted AFL Canada's Mike McFarlane to see if it was possible for him to play or train with an Australian team whilst in Australia.

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North Delta Junior AFL Update

Permanent link for this entry March 9, 2006 by Stefan Leyhane | View Comments (2)

The North Delta Junior AFL in North Vancouver, British Columbia has a new website. Jason Stratford says:

"We had the first casual training day today with close to 100 kids and we are expecting more for the start of the season in April. It's been growing heaps every year since its beginnings 4 years ago. Every kid is a Canadian. Credit goes entirely to Mike McFarlane for his incredible dedication and hard work running the league and doing school clinincs etc. out this way."

The Yahoo! Groups page linked from the page has more pictures and video's from last year's season end.

Girls' High Schools Show Footy Skills

Permanent link for this entry November 11, 2004 by Greg Everett | View Comments (6)

St. Clements and Bishop Strachan teamsNovember 10th, 2004 will go down in the history books as the day that two secondary schools from the Northern Hemisphere played each other in a game of Australian Football with school pride on the line for the first time ever.

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