Pacific FC

With the recent announcement by the Queensland Government that community sport is not permitted for two weeks, all soccer activities including all forms of training sessions, matches and all other soccer-related gatherings have been suspended until 4pm Sunday, 22 August for all participants and clubs. This means that the U6-U10 Rooball Carnival is unfortunately, cancelled, as well as the competitive Semi-Finals. At this stage, the Prelim Finals and Grand Finals will go ahead, even though teams did not have equal opportunities to finish their rounds.

However, despite the seemingly unfair and abrupt end to the season, Pacific FC players and teams achieved some amazing things in 2021.

We fielded 15 teams in the 2021 season, with over 170 players on fields affected by rain at the beginning of the season and building work at Pacific in the second half.

Our U11 Pacific Razors finished on top of the ladder after Round 16 as Premiers and will go straight through to the Grand Final on August 4th at 8.30am, Harmony Fields, Palmview.

Our U16 Pacific Cobras narrowly missed out on the Premiership due to covid-affected games not applying and finished as runners up on the ladder. They will play off for their place in the Grand Final on August 28th at 1.30pm, Pacific Lutheran College.

Special mention also goes to the U15 Pacific Eels who finished in 4th place on the ladder but will sadly miss out on the finals as a direct result of the restrictions on Community Sport. We feel your pain.

We had five 10-year players this season: Henry Friend, Luke Harrys, Blake Dines, Cooper Whatham, and Macey Winter. These players, along with our 10-year players from 2020, Alex Lee and Lachie Whincop, will attend SCCSA’s Adermann Awards for a special presentation in September.

We had two 10-year volunteers: Nicole Harrys and Andrew Whatham. Extra special acknowledgment also goes to our first 15-year player/volunteer – Harrison Dines. Harrison’s support of the U14 Pacific Seals has been unwavering and we thank him for his effort and encouragement of this team.

We had thirteen Sunshine Coast representative players in our club: Harley Spence, Nicholas Currey, Angus Friend, Joshua Groll, Joseph Harrys, Patrick Dale, Luke Harrys, Jessica Lloyd, Zaida Williams, Ethan Haas, Matthew Kirby, Caleb Baker and Alexander Lee. Even though all representative tournaments where cancelled due to either rain or covid restrictions, the players still trained weekly throughout the season where possible.

We are currently looking at how and when we can run an end-of-season event to acknowledge all of our players and celebrate our 20-year milestone. The current restrictions and high probability that restrictions may be placed upon us again, make that decision challenging. We will however, endeavour to work through these circumstances as best we can.

Mrs Rita Williams, Pacific FC President