The Mt Lofty Football Club is excited to announce Ben Naughton as our U16 Boys Coach for the 2025 season.
A current player, Ben has been at the club since 2005 and has played footy all the way from under 8’s. His dedication to the club and player development shows with taking on a B Grade Captains role, and assisting in the Auskick Coordinators role for 2 years.
He started his coaching journey with Chris McTaggart in 2022 as an assistant coach with the North Adelaide the U15’s, and continued at Mt Lofty 2022 U16’s Assistant Coach to Michael Wilson and went on to Head Coach in 2023-24 U16’s.
He is very excited to be back to coach the under 16’s for 2025 and looks forward to teaching the game of footy while making new connections and relationships. Ben is most excited about bringing a great culture to the playing group, really teaching them about the clubs motto of “One club all in” and having lots enjoyment and fun for season 2025!
We are excited to have Ben back for 2025 and to see the further development of his players.
Join us at Heathfield Oval on Monday 5th February for an important Your Brain Health (YBH) concussion session as we head into season 2024.
All players, parents, coaches, team managers and community members are welcome. Liz Jemson-Ledger, Neurological Physiotherapist from YBH, will be discussing what concussion is, and how it has evolved, as well as why YBH exists and what they offer all Mt Lofty FC players with baseline and player management post (suspected) concussion.
Where: Heathfield Oval
When: Monday 5th February
Time: 6.30pm for a 7pm start. The session will run for about an hour, with question time afterwards
Yesterday the HFL advised all Division 1 clubs that in season 2024 there will be no change to the age groups for Junior Boys.
This ultimately means that Mount Lofty football club will nominate an Under 12, 14, 16 and 18 team in the division 1 HFL competition.
This outcome was welcomed by our Junior and Senior committees as we campaigned to maintain the current structure that would preserve the integrity and quality of our Junior program.
The Auskick season begins in a few short weeks and we are STILL recruiting for our Mt Lofty 2023 AusKick coordinator. Please consider taking on this role – our community sporting club is underpinned by great people giving up their time to ensure our kids have a fantastic experience.
Auskick is designed for kids 5 to 12 with participants encouraged to have fun and make new friends whilst developing basic football skills. This year’s Auskick will be nine sessions over 10 weeks, May 7-July 9. Dates are below.
We have a wealth of support for the successful candidate!
If you would like to express your interest in taking on the role, or discuss the role further, please contact Chris Illman via jd@mtloftydevils.com.au or 0418 348 848 as soon as possible.
Learning Life Through Sport is a program designed to challenge social norms and inspire young people and their communities to bring a new standard of behaviour and respect to sport and life.
On Tuesday 21 March, SANFL Juniors is presenting a Learning Life Through Sport session at Norwood Football Club, from 6pm to 7.30pm for Moddies and 7.45pm to 9pm for Juniors. Registrations are welcomed. Click here to register.
Mount Lofty Football Club has sent the information to all Junior and Moddies coaches and encouraged some reps from the club to attend.
Learning Life Through Sport identifies positive ways to alter the inherited and often unacceptable behaviour of coaches, players, parents and supporters in junior sports. These behaviours include umpire dissent and abuse (bullying), bad sportsmanship and a lack of respect for sporting codes and participants of sport.
As we enter the 2023 season, I am pleased to inform that our player registrations are significantly higher than the same time last year. We have 20 teams registered across HFL and SANFL competitions with great numbers attending pre-season trainings. Our first home game for our Juniors and Senior Men is versus Blackwood on April 1. I would encourage you to get along and support the club.
These strong player numbers have been built off our successful Auskick program. To continue this trajectory, we are recruiting for our 2023 AusKick coordinator. As our community sporting club is underpinned by great people giving up their time to ensure our kids have a great experience, I would ask for your consideration to take on this vital role.
Auskick is designed for kids 5 to 12 with participants encouraged to have fun and make new friends whilst developing basic football skills. The Auskick coordinator is integral to creating a wonderful Auskick experience for all participants, volunteers and parent/guardians and is crucial to positively contributing to the wider community. It is also the feeder to our Modified program and as such underpins the future of the club.
We have a wealth of support for the successful candidate including:
Leith Dawes – Coaching support and mentoring. leithdawes@adam.com.au. Leith in 2021 was the SA recipient of the AFL Junior Coach of the year award. As an Under 10 coach himself in 2023 and a previous Auskick coordinator, he has a wealth of knowledge for the successful candidate.
Gavin Klose – Junior Football Coaching Coordinator. jcc@mtloftydevils.com.au. An experienced coach at modified and junior level at MLDFC.
