Warsash Wasps Girls win at Wembley in McDonalds FA Festival

On 12th August a

team of 'under 10s' girls made up of players from Warsash Wasps, Crofton Saints

and Winchester City Flyers were chosen by the Hampshire Football Association to

represent Hampshire in a recent football festival sponsored by McDonalds – the Community

Partner for FA.

54 teams from across the country

took part in the Festival of games and challenges that took part at Northwick

Park in London and culminated in a match between each team at Wembley stadium.

There were 16 girls’ teams

in the event. Megan Jackson, Ella Jackson, Libby Wilson, Jessica Tanner,

Fenella Hammonds and Jaime Rowlands were the Warsash contingent of the

Hampshire Team and played team number 17 in their Final.

Warsash Wasps’ Jessica

Tanner scored twice to take the team to a 2-0 victory and all the girls walked

up the steps to the Royal Box to collect their medals.

Andrew Jackson, Warsash

Wasps coach, said: "There was great excitement as the teams walked through

the Players Entrance and emerged from the tunnel onto the pitch - what an

amazing stadium! The girls walked past the cheering crowd and had a team photo

taken with Sir Geoff Hurst. What a day!"

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Warsash Wasps Sports and Football Club are trying to raise £500K to

provide a new ‘third generation’ artificial pitch for the club and the

community, which they’re calling ‘Weatherproof Wasps’. If you’d like to help in

any way with fundraising for this take a look at the Wasps website for more

information.

Darren,

Ade, Roger and Mark, all members of The Ferryman ‘10 O’clock club’, are taking part

in this year’s Screwball Rally from 16th – 20th September.

They are aiming to complete the course in support of 2 local organisations, one

of which is ‘Weatherproof Wasps.’ For more information, or to support them pop

into The Ferryman in Warsash.