Wanneroo Amateur Football Club President Geoff Burwood has been announced as the West Perth District Football Development Council’s 2010 RAC- West Perth District Volunteer of the Year.

In 2010, 40 nominations were received for volunteers within the West Perth District. The standard of applicants was extremely high and all deserve their nominations.

The 2010 WAWFL Grand Finals take place this Sunday, 5 September, at EFTel Oval, Perth.

Coastal Titans will take on Swan Districts in the Division 1 Grand Final at 2.30pm. Swan Districts finished the year at the top of the ladder with an unbeaten record in the regular season. It was not until they faced the Titans in the Semi-Final of this year's finals series that they suffered their first defeat with the Titans edging a very close game. Swans hit back in the Preliminary Final ousting last year's Premiers, East Fremantle.

The 2010 WAWFL Grand Finals take place this Sunday, 5 September, at EFTel Oval, Perth.

Coastal Titans will take on Swan Districts in the Division 1 Grand Final at 2.30pm. Swan Districts finished the year at the top of the ladder with an unbeaten record in the regular season. It was not until they faced the Titans in the Semi-Final of this year's finals series that they suffered their first defeat with the Titans edging a very close game. Swans hit back in the Preliminary Final ousting last year's Premiers, East Fremantle.

The Western Australian Youth Girls team will head to Melbourne on September 6 for the first ever AFL National Youth Girls Carnival.

The team, consisting of 28 players under the age of 18, will compete against South Australia, Queensland, ACT/NSW and Victoria in a bid for national honours.

As part of the promotion of the national carnival the AFL started the “Follow the Flight of the Ball” initiative which saw a pink ball sent to each state to be photographed with famous icons or people, including Julia Gillard.

The Western Australian Youth Girls team will head to Melbourne on September 6 for the first ever AFL National Youth Girls Carnival.

The team, consisting of 28 players under the age of 18, will compete against South Australia, Queensland, ACT/NSW and Victoria in a bid for national honours.

As part of the promotion of the national carnival the AFL started the “Follow the Flight of the Ball” initiative which saw a pink ball sent to each state to be photographed with famous icons or people, including Julia Gillard.

WA school teams won three out of the four year level competitions in the 2010 National AFL Schools Quiz. Over 1000 teams & 3000 Year 3,4,5 & 6 students from all around Australia competed in the Footy Quiz to win the Money Can’t Buy Experience Major Prize.

The Yr 4 winners were North Kalgoorlie, Nollamara won the Yr 5 competition & Glen Forrest came 1^st and 2^nd in the yr 6 level. Congratulations and well done to these students and their terrific AFL School Ambassador/teachers Kendall Lange, Anthony Middleton and David Wheatfill who entered the school teams in the competition.

The great Money Can’t Buy Experience included tickets to the Fremantle v Carlton game on Friday 27 August with an on ground interview with Sam Mac from 92.9 prior to the game which was seen on the Big Screen. The students got to meet, & have photos taken with, FFC players, Clayton Hinkley and Brock O’Brien, during half time of the AFL match on Subiaco Oval. They also received a FFC promotional pack and best of all, the lucky students went into the Dockers rooms after the game to see and hear the Fremantle players sing their song after an exciting win.

The AFL Quiz is a FREE, innovative and engaging online competition aimed at developing the literacy and numeracy skills of primary aged children within the theme of Australian Football.

The 2010 AFL Quiz competition was open to students in Years 3, 4, 5 and 6 and consists of two quizzes of three rounds. Each year level consisted of two pools in which they will compete in.
Quiz 1 will commenced on Monday 3rd May 2010, with Quiz 2 commenced on Monday 7th June 2010. The top 22 teams from each competition were invited to compete in a Finals Series that commenced Monday 2nd August 2010. A maximum of two teams per year level per school were invited into the Final Series.

Teams of three students in the same year level will had one hour of online time to answer 10 questions. Personalised AFL certificates were awarded throughout the competition to those teams in each pool who answered the most questions correctly at the close of each round.
A “Money Can’t Buy Experience” was awarded to the National Final Series Winners in each year level with prizes also being awarded to the 2nd and 3rd placed Finals Series teams.

Teachers were encouraged to enroll teams in this unique national competition to test their students' Australian Football knowledge whilst developing their literacy, numeracy and IT skills.

After more than 20 games, the last week of the season is finally upon us, with all but three of the WAAFL premierships to be decided this weekend.

With both teams assured of an A Grade berth next season, minor premiers Collegians and SFL upstarts Maddington with have all eyes on winning the CJ Jamieson Cup in the B Grade grand final at Fremantle Oval this Saturday.

The WAAFL, in its 89^th season, held its annual Presentation Dinner with over 760 guests attending the Grand Ballroom at Burswood Entertainment Complex last night, Wednesday, August 25.

In a night full of glamour and glitz, MC Clint Wheeldon from ABC Sports Radio guided the night through a host of awards. There were 20 grades covering colts and seniors, plus individual and club champion honours.

With half of the grand final teams decided last week, this week’s preliminary finals will be hard fought as teams compete for the chance to not only contend for the premiership but also to advance into the next grade.

The B Grade preliminary final will be between Swan Athletic and Maddington at Claremont Oval this Saturday, with the winner heading to the grand final to face Collegians. This week is the second chance for Swan Athletic to make the grand final. After defeating Hamersley Carine two weeks ago, Swan Athletic lost last week’s second semi final to Collegians 9.9 (63) to 19.10 (124).

23-year old Aboriginal student Kaila Riley will join the Minister for Training and Workforce Development, Hon Peter Collier MLC, Dave Burton West Perth District Football Development Council Chair and West Perth Football Club players to launch a new Academy dedicated to delivering customised training to the Aboriginal community.

The West Perth Football District has partnered with West Coast Institute of Training to develop components of the program and will offer all participants in the program the opportunity to complete a Level 1 AFL Football Coaching Accreditation.