Congratulations to our three Devils Winnie Thornquest, Phoebe Neck and Keira May, who had a great week away with the State team this week.
Their team made their way to Albury Wodonga to compete in the Championships, where they finished equal second with Western Australia behind Queensland.
Well done on your achievements girls! Looking forward to seeing what your future holds.
We would like to welcome to Arkaba Oval members of the Wissell family who are representing deceased Life Members of our foundation clubs and are doing us the honour of tossing the Life Member coin for this very important match against Lobethal.
Welcome to Shane and Kirsten Wissell and their sons James and Harry, James is wearing our current Mt. Lofty jumper and Harry is wearing his Pop’s, Brian, original Aldgate Football club jumper. These boys are the 5th generation Wissell’s to play for Mt. Lofty and its foundation clubs.
Shane’s great grandfather Jim Wissell was the first-generation Wissell to play for the Aldgate Football Club, commencing playing in 1901 and taking on many roles until the 1930’s. Jim holds life membership of the Aldgate Football Club.
Shane’s grandfather Harold ‘Chicken’ Wissell was the second generation of Wissell’s to play at Aldgate and was also honoured with Life Membership, playing and filling different roles from the 1930’s through to the 1950’s, he was an A Grade premiership player in 1934 and was the first President of the current Hills Football league.
Then came Brian ‘Woop’ Wissell as the 3rd generation to play and volunteer support in many roles from the late 1940’s until 2009, winning the A grade B&F in 1957. Brian was involved with Aldgate, HAU and Mt. Lofty and is a Life Member of the Aldgate Football Club.
Shane and his brothers Craig and David also played for HAU and then Mt. Lofty Football clubs and became the 4th generation of Wissell’s to add their flair to our club’s history with Shane winning back-to-back SAFA medals in the U16 competition in ‘84 & ‘85 and runner up in the ‘91 A grade mail Medal. The family history of playing and support now spans 121 years with James and Harry Wissell starting their playing in the Candy Stripes at the age of six in our Auskick program.
This family sits in rarefied atmosphere when it comes to support of our club and community, and we look forward to the Wissell tradition continuing at our great club.
Arkaba Oval will host the first round of finals for the HFL Women’s comp on Sunday.
Our Senior Women finished second and will take on Blackwood in a qualifying final at 1.30pm. Following this at 3pm, Mt Barker will play Uraidla in an elimination final.
This will be a great afternoon of women’s football and we’re encouraging all spectators and helpers to be there on the day.
Free entry!
See the fixtures below for all the other weekend action.
GIVE ‘EM HELL DEVS!
Be sure to be a part of the day next weekend for our reunion round that will cover all the 1 & 2 years.
Check out the Premiership photos so see if you or someone you know needs to a part of the action!
Congratulations to THREE Devils Keira May, Phoebe Neck and Winnie Thornquest who are playing in the U15 State team in Aubury Wodonga this week. Give ’em Hell girls 
You can catch all of the action on the link HERE