AFL Senior Boys Personal Development Excursion

On the 11 March, the PBC Senior Boys AFL squad embarked on a personal development bus tour to continue their sports excellence education to be not only better footballers, but better men. The day began with a session at Southport Gymanstics Centre where, former Olympian, Lee McDermott ran a workshop on body awareness and control when landing/changing direction. Lee has spent the summer working with the Gold Coast Suns players on similar movements. From there, Shiike Vanderweuff conducted his first session with the boys on mental conditioning and mindfulness, an important skill in young athletes, learning to control what you can and deal with what you can’t.

The group then proceeded to go to Metricon Stadium where Shaun Hart from the Gold Coast Suns and his Personal excellence team spoke to the boys about decision making, moral courage and what it takes in respectful relationships, a great session that will be developed later in 2020.

To conclude the day, the boys then ventured out of their comfort zone into Burleigh Indoor Rock Climbing Centre where it was fantastic to see boys overcome fears, embrace challenges and work so well as a unit.

Thankyou to all our partners for providing these services to these young men, it really was a great day and no doubt created a positive environment for the 46 players to thrive in 2020 and beyond.

Peter Hill and Neil Mackay,
Senior Boys AFL Coaches

Year 9 Football Excellence Cluster Day

The Year 9 Boys put together some great performances at their Football Sports Excellence Cluster Day that was held before school sport was cancelled. Played between the Sports Excellence schools of south east Queensland, PBC won all three of their games on the day 5-1, 1-0, and 4-0.

Shane Robinson,
Football Excellence Coach