Spring Hills has secured its future in the National Premier League women’s competition for next season.
After a slow start to their first season in the state’s top flight, Spring Hills has secured its spot with three rounds remaining.
Coach Tom Markovski said it’s been a pretty good first up season.
“I’m happy with the season,” he said. “We’re officially staying up.
“We are safe and want to push for a top six spot. We have four games left which are winnable and we have a chance.”
Markovski said losing some players in the off season meant they had a slower start than they would have liked.
Once they found their feet they’ve been able to put together some strong form.
“We have come good,” Markovski said. “Our lost our last game with Heidelberg but we held our own and did enough to get a point.
“It’s been a tough season but we’ve been able to find our way. It was our first loss in eight games.”
Spring Hills has continued to focus on bringing junior players through into the senior side.
Markovski said they had played more youngsters than they thought they would at the start of the season, but it was good signs for the future.
“We’ve debuted 10 or 11 girls under the age of 18,” he said. ‘Our under-20 captain, who is 18 years old, didn’t end up playing in the under-20s until round 11 or 12 as she has come up to us.
“There’s a couple of girls who were playing in the under-20s and have been thrust into the senior team and it’s been a good opportunity.
“I’ve been really happy.”
Also pleasing for Markovski has been the performance of their junior girls sides which are also playing NPL for the first time.
The club’s under-15s are sitting second on the ladder, which ?? said was a great achievement, while their under-13s and under-17s have had good seasons as well.
There was a bye on the weekend for Spring Hills with the Nike F.C Cup and men’s competition cups being held.
Markovski said it would have been nice to keep playing and continue their momentum.
It will be a busy few weeks for Spring Hills.
It faces Brunswick Juventus on Friday night, before a catch up match with the FV Academy on Tuesday night and then t is back in action on the Friday in the second last round.
Markovski said while he was already looking forward to next year, they wanted to finish this year off strongly.
Looking to the men’s side, which is currently sixth in FV state league 5 west, Markovski said it had been a good season and they had blooded a lot of youngsters and they were setting up the program how they wanted it to be set up.
