Kingsley Westside Football Club has implemented an innovative lighting solution for women’s football in Kinross with a $25,000 boost for temporary lighting at their female teams’ base. New portable floodlighting has provided a quick solution at MacNaughton Park which is home to the junior and senior women’s teams for Kingsley Westside. The club’s junior president Alistair McMurdo said the process took about two years with the club carrying out an extensive national search to find a product which was conscious of the community impact.
Journalism for the curious Australian across politics, business, culture and opinion. He said lighting, made up of 16 light poles, takes about 10 minutes to set up and disassemble and has allowed the women’s teams to have their own training base in Kinross and play at night. “We applied through Joondalup’s large grant process that is released annually, whereby we were awarded $25,000.
It has also cost the club a further $5500 to meet some of the grant’s terms and conditions,” Mr McMurdo said. “The female section has grown from two female teams (26 players) in 2020 to now nine junior female teams and two ladies’ teams (171 players). “The lights have made it possible for the club to expand its junior portfolio not only in the female section, but now that training space has been released at Bramston we can now look at strengthening our boys teams also.
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