Schools
25 November, 2022
Lowood High crowns top futsal and soccer players
TWELVE Lowood State High School students picked up at least one award at the school’s Football Academy presentation night on Thursday, November 3.
The school’s hospitality department catered for the 170 attendees who celebrated the success of the school’s soccer and futsal teams throughout the year.
Max Jaremenko was named Male Footballer of the Year and Senior Boys Players’ Player, while Lilijana Sajkar was named Female Footballer of the Year.
Max and Lilijana were also rewarded for Outstanding Service to Football, as were Jai Chapman and Ethan Joubert, while Kyra Hayes was named Senior Girls Players’ Player.
Leah Beecham (Year 8), Alicija Sajkar (Year 9) and Landon Whitmore (Year 10) earned the Football Academy Player of the Year award for their respective age groups while Luke Barrett (Year 8), Alan Rogers (Year 9) and Travis Taylor (Year 10) won the Players’ Player awards.
Travis was also awarded the Bendigo Bank Bursary, along with Brooke Anderson.
Lowood State High School’s Football Academy coordinator Jacob Veraart said highlights of the year included the school’s U16 boys futsal, U14 girls futsal, and U19 girls futsal.
The U16 boys team defeated Toowoomba Grammar School at the Southwest Queensland Futsal Titles, which Jacob said was “the first time a Lowood team has done this in recent memory”.
The U14 girls team qualified for the Southern Queensland Champion of Champions, and later received a wildcard in the Australasian Champion of Champions. In this, the Lowood U14s beat an U15 team.
As for the U19 girls, Jacob said the Chantelle Cramb Cup- winning team included three players who were still eligible for U14 level.
One of those three, Alicija, was last year’s Female Footballer of the Year and last year’s Year 8 Football Academy Player of the Year. It was notable that Alicija again won a player-of-the-year award this year, while her older sister Lilijana was named Female Footballer of the Year.
The award winners were congratulated, and thanks were expressed to sponsors Bendigo Bank, Lockyer Bins, Drakes, David Grant & Associates, Tyson Foods, Lowood Dental, Jim McDonald MP, Farmcraft, Irrigear, and the Lowood RSL sub-branch.
