Are these Queensland youth footballers Magic Matildas of the longer term? Right here’s 60 of one of the best SEQ abilities aspiring for excellent heights within the spherical ball code.
Matilda’s Magic has swept the nation, shining a searchlight on the nation’s premier feminine footballers.
The likes of Sam Kerr, Hayley Raso, Mary Fowler and Ellie Carpenter had been the celebrities of at this time – however what concerning the future?
Right here we reveal one of the best feminine youth gamers from the South East Queensland area, younger stars of the spherical ball code.
Tully Heatley
Membership/college: QAS, Kelvin Grove State School
Place: Midfielder
A Future Matilda’s choose, Heatley is famend for her silky expertise, somebody with nice imaginative and prescient who’s all of the whereas laborious working. She is a respectful younger lady.
An Edge Hill United junior from FNQ, she was lately chosen for the below 18 Queensland schoolgirls group.
Jonti Fisher
Membership/college: QAS, Kelvin Grove State School
Place: Winger or midfielder
The versatile Fisher is a centered youth participant who is part of the Future Matildas squad.
She is a superb finisher and intensely laborious working. She has made the Australian below 18 Girls’s Championship group and likewise made this yr’s Qld schoolgirls below 18s.
Shelby McMahon
Membership/College” Gold Coast Knights, Southport SHS
Place: Centre, midfield
A Junior Matilda squad member and Australian below 17 choose, McMahon is athletic, has pace and is technically very sound. She can be a respectful scholar who has a constructive affect on her friends. The standard McMahon with a excessive work ethic can be a famend aim scorer and creator of attacking raids.
Charlie Gibson
Brisbane Roar
Place: central defender and fullback
The winner of the esteemed 2022 Sue Monteath Award for 2022 FQ Academy QAS Participant of the 12 months, the Mt St Michael’s previous woman made her debut for the Junior Matildas on the AFF U18 Girls’s Championship in Indonesia.
Famend for her perseverance, the Mitchelton FC junior is a member of the Brisbane Roar Womens A League squad.
Ella O’Grady
Membership: QAS
Place: Attacker
A Future Matildas class of 2023 scholarship winner, the Wynnum Wolves FC junior is a terrific ahead who has been named within the Queensland schoolgirls below 18 facet.
She is certainly one of Queensland’s most enjoyable prospects, having represented the CommBank Junior Matildas squad on the Asean Soccer Federation (AFF) U18 Girls’s Championship in 2022.
Zara Kruger
Membership, college: Lions FC, QAS, Scots School, Warwick
Place: Ahead
Polished by Junior Matilda coaching camps, Kruger was awarded a scholarship for the preliminary Future Matildas class of 2023.
Kruger is a member of the Queensland Schoolgirls group in 2023.
Chloe Parker
Membership or college: Narangba Valley State Excessive College
Place: Defender
The Sunshine Coast rising star has been chosen within the CommBank Junior Matildas squad to compete on the 2024 AFC U17 Girls’s Asian Cup Qualifiers.
Margaret Barrett
Membership: QAS, Western Satisfaction
Place: Ahead
The Junior Matildas participant rose from the Western Satisfaction after coming by means of QAS programs because the below 13s in 2018.
Daisy Brown
Membership. college: Brisbane Metropolis/QAS
Place: Ahead
A 2022 Junior Matildas AFF below 18 Girls’s Championship group member, she was recognized by QAS scouts as early because the below 13 age group and continues to go from energy to energy.
Daisy Brown
Membership: QAS
Place: Ahead
The extremely touted ahead within the QAS, who final yr was chosen within the Junior Matildas group which competed on the AFF U18’s Girls Championship’s in Indonesia.
Isabella Hoyos
College: St Augustine’s School, Springfield Lakes
Place: Defender
A CommBank Junior Matildas squad invitee for 2024, the Australian below 17 Girls’s Asian Cup consultant is a white sizzling expertise on the pitch – and extremely revered off it.
Final yr she was awarded Soccer Queensland’s below 14s QAS Requirements and Behaviours Award. She hails from the identical district – Springfield – as one other famend good sport, retired tennis legend Ash Barty.
Ellen Gett
Membership: QAS
Place: Midfield, ahead
A QAS captain and Younger Matildas coaching camp member, Stuartholme College previous woman Gett is a famend chief who made it into the Brisbane Roar’s prime squad.
Stella Campbell
Place: Goalkeeper
Campbell is a member of the CommBank Junior Matildas coaching towards the 2024 AFC U-17 Girls’s Asian Cup Qualifiers and there’s little marvel why.
The goalkeeper is dominant, and a game-saver.
Grace Kuilamu
College: QAS, Souths United, Brisbane State Excessive College
Place: Ahead
The younger striker is a flexible attacking participant who may swing to win. She grew up taking part in in opposition to the boys and was first recognized at a college carnival in Extensive Bay in 2017, becoming a member of the QAS program from Souths United in 2019.
She is a member of the CommBank Junior Matildas squad 2024 and was named the 2022 QAS below 16 Gamers’ Participant Award winner.
MacKenzie Nielson
Membership, college: QAS, Kelvin Grove State School alumni
There’s little marvel why Nielson is so good when she has been honing her expertise at Kelvin Grove.
Nielsen has Junior Matilda expertise, and is elite with a capital E.
Aleeah Daverne
Membership: Brisbane Roar
Place: Midfielder
Initially from sporting wealthy Cairns, the fluent midfielder with an enormous motor has had her expertise polished below the watchful QAS system, making the youth Matilda’s’ facet.
After shifting from North Queensland, she completed her education at sporting wealthy Marsden SHS.
Alyssa Borodin
Membership, college: QAS
Place: Midfielder
Winner of the 2022 Soccer Queensland’s below 15 Gamers’ Participant Award, Borodin is a member of the CommBank Junior Matildas coaching towards the U-17 Girls’s Asian Cup Qualifiers.
Sarah Bonifant
Membership: Lions FC
Bonifant is a 2023 Queensland Schoolgirls consultant and a futsal gun who has a knack for scoring.
Sian Costigan
College: Ipswich Women Grammar College
Costigan, a 12 months 12 scholar at Ipswich Women’ Grammar College, is a Queensland Schoolgirl and Queensland state consultant within the elite QAS pathway system.
Chelsea Fairbairn
Membership: QAS, Capabala FC
After two years of spectacular type for Capabala FC Fairbairn was invited to trial, then was later chosen within the QAS program. She hasn’t slowed down as confirmed by her Queensland choice for final yr’s NTC Problem.
Don’t neglect she is a Queensland Schoolgirls consultant.
Steph Hallas
Membership: Moreton Bay United
Place: Ahead
The Queensland Schoolgirl is a Moreton Bay United ahead who must be the most effective strikers going round in Brisbane.
The Jets wouldn’t commerce her for anybody of their FQPL1 arrange.
Mia Bailey
Membership: Brisbane Roar
Place: Goalkeeper
A Cairns native and JCU Strikers junior, Bailey made her NPL debut aged simply 15 and her skilled debut with the Brisbane Roar in 2021.
The Cavendish Highway State Excessive College alumni is a previous Sue Monteath award for the QAS Participant of the 12 months recipient.
Lilly Simpson
College: Narangba Valley SHS
Place: Ahead
Named the 2022 Soccer Queensland U14s Gamers’ Participant Award recipient for the season, Simpson is brimming with expertise and was within the Australian squad that performed within the Group B 2024 AFC U-17 Girls’s Asian Cup Spherical Qualifiers held in Mongolia earlier
Majellah Cedric
Membership, college: Souths Utd; Marsden SHS
Place: Midfielder or Ahead
A terrific athlete, Cedric has acceleration, technical expertise and a excessive work ethic. She is a real aim scorer. Cedric makes her teammates higher gamers.
Khelistar Kumitau
Membership or college: Olympic FC; Marsden SHS
Place: Midfielder or Defender
Technically elite, she is 2 footed, fast, composed and famend for being an unselfish participant.
She has a excessive work ethic, is superb at defending one-on-one, and has a capability to learn the sport.
Holly Bonertz-Benn
Membership, college: QAS, Kelvin Grove State School
Place: Midfielder
The QAS ladies’s schoolgirl ace is a superb finisher and composed passer who has a excessive soccer IQ.
She is a Queensland schoolgirls below 18 facet choice.
Kate Bonertz-Benn
Membership, college: QAS, Kelvin Grove State School
Place: Fullback
Onerous working and tremendous match, Bonertz-Benn can run all day.
The 2023 Queensland schoolgirls choice has a fantastic supply into the field.
Daisey Bateman
Membership: QAS Womens/Kelvin Grove State School
Place: Winger/fullback
Good with nice expertise, Bateman is an elite finisher who may be very respectful amongst her friends.
Xiana Ludwig
Membership/college QAS, Kelvin Grove State School
Place: Midfielder
An admirer of Matildas star Mary Fowler, Ludwig is among the youthful members of our record.
The QAS below 14 choose has an enormous motor – and it isn’t stunning given her cross nation and athletic background. She is an actual pure soccer expertise, gifted however a tough employee. Ludwig has imaginative and prescient on the soccer pitch.
Violet McKee
Membership: QAS, Kelvin Grove State School
Place: Centre Again
One more from the Kelvin Grove State School Soccer Wonderful program, McKee is calm in a disaster, robust with good imaginative and prescient. She is a respectful younger lady amongst her teammates.
She made the Soccer Queensland Academy below 18 Women Nationwide Coaching Centre women state facet which competed on the Nationwide Problem final month, and likewise made the Queensland schoolgirls below 18 facet.
Hayley Campbell
Membership, college: QAS below 15s, Kelvin Grove State School
Place: Centre Again
Campbell is a superb passer, a dream teammate of gamers given her skill to ship the products.
She is calm and a famend robust participant.
Issy Anderson
Membership: Brisbane Metropolis below 23 ladies’s
Place: Midfielder
Anderson is a superb contact footballer with terrific imaginative and prescient. She additionally works laborious on and off the pitch to enhance herself.
Ashleigh Adamson
Membership, college Palm Seaside Currumbin SHS
Place: Attacking midfielder
The attacking midfielder that has the power to unlock defences and rating vital targets.
She was lately named within the below 19 Queensland schoolgirls group.
Amali Kinsella
Membership or college: QAS, Beerwah State Excessive College
Place: Unknown
The QAS academy member attended final yr’s Junior Matilda’s coaching camp which adopted on from her Queensland Schoolgirls and Queensland Beneath 18s Nationwide Coaching Centre Women facet choice.
Chloe Murray
Membership or College: Sunshine Coast Wanderers, Sunshine Seaside State Excessive College
Place: Unknown
On the age of 15 Murray had been chosen to signify the Sunshine Coast ladies’s below 23s facet within the NPL competitors. All you want to learn about Murray is here.
Rosie McMahon
Membership or college: QAS, Matthew Flinders Anglican School
Place: Midfield
The younger star has already donned the inexperienced and gold jersey for the junior U17 Matildas after prime string performances for the QAS below 15 women group within the NPL Girls’s U23 competitors.
McMahon, who has additionally performed cricket at a state degree, is definitely one to regulate for years to return.
Learn extra here.
Mia Inexperienced
Membership or College: Moreton Bay United, Redcliffe State Excessive College
Place: Midfield
The Redcliffe teenager has been on many coaches and membership radars for a number of years now as she continues to beat no matter challenges are positioned in entrance of her.
Inexperienced has certainly been referred to as right into a Matildas below 17s squad previously and at simply 14, she appears to be like proper at dwelling within the Jets Beneath 23s group.
Amber Faherty
Membership or College: QAS, Kawana Waters State School
Place: Midfield
A powerful and demanding participant within the centre midfield, Faherty has starred for Queensland on the Youth Nationals and within the futsal enviornment.
She is a technically gifted participant and might escape excessive stress conditions utilizing her chic ball expertise – and her Queensland Maroon Beneath 14s choice is proof of her expertise.
Abbie Lutton
Membership or College: Sunshine Coast Fireplace, Kawana Waters State School
Place: Midfield
Lutton is one other Sunshine Coast junior that’s hovering within the junior divisions however has additionally stamped her toes within the senior divisions. Her imaginative and prescient on and off the ball as a defensive midfielder has allowed her to excel and isn’t afraid of going toe-to-toe with the opposition. Solely 14 however is a real rising star, Lutton is the right quantity six who might be a Matilda if she continues on this trajectory.
Lanni McDougall
Membership: Brisbane Roar
Place: midfield
McDougall has soared forward to play for the Brisbane Roar after impressing for her junior membership Moreton Bay United.
Molly McLennan
Membership: Gold Coast United
Place: Centre midfield
With beautiful deft touches, the previous Queensland Opens Schoolgirls Staff choice can unlock defences.
Sierra McCaffrey
Membership: QAS
Place: Centre again or mid
A Kelvin Grove State School product, she is a pure expertise who, consider it or not, can nail
outrageous targets from round midway.
Maddison Teakle
Membership: Lions
Place: Defender
A Harristown SHS product who has now left college, the 19-year-old yr has been a Queensland consultant all through her junior days.
Hayley Campbell
Place: Centre Again
Membership: QAS U15
Campbell is robust and calm on the ball and might go like one of the best of them.
Issy Anderson
Place: Midfielder
Membership: Brisbane Metropolis U23/Womens
She has a fantastic contact, good imaginative and prescient, is a tough employee and most of all she is respectful.
Sonali Singh
College: BSHS
FQ Academy QAS
A Lions FC junior, Singh is an thrilling expertise who has made the Queensland Schoolgirls with schoolmate Ari Skeers. She has been chosen within the Younger Matildas as a 17-year-old and is among the most promising on this record.
Ari Skeers
Membership: Lions FC
College: BSHS
The Queensland Schoolgirls consultant who final month secured third place for Samoa with two targets of their playoff match in opposition to the Cook dinner Islands on the Beneath 19s Girls’s Championships.
The 12 months 11 Brisbane State Excessive scholar is fearless with a lionsheart.
Sara Solomon
Membership: Camden Tigers FC
Solomon is a 2023 south coast Queensland Schoolgirls consultant which incorporates gamers similar to Sarah Bonifant and Violet McKee.
The Gold Coast product can play each soccer and futsal on the highest degree.
Anjelina Ujdur
Membership: south coast Gold Coast United
Place: Attacking-midfield
The Queensland schoolgirls below 18s choose who is probably not a Matilda however she has each likelihood of being a New Zealand worldwide after she impressed at an Beneath 17s World Cup coaching camp in Cambridge (New Zealand) early final yr.
She is aware of methods to discover the again of the web higher than anybody.
She has implausible energy and is in her factor with the ball at her toes.
A fierce competitor
Lauren Vaschina
Membership: QAS
Like many others on this record, QAS member Vaschina was elected in Queensland’s NTC Problem squad final yr. She can be a proficient equestrian athlete from the Downs.
Sarah Birchall
Membership: QAS, BSHS
Birchall is an all-rounder sportswoman, now specialising in soccer. She has helped BSHS to 2 premierships with the Open group, and helped them to the state championship Invoice Turner Cup title.
Exterior of college, Birchall performs within the WNPL with Olympic, was part of the QAS group in 2021, and was short-listed for the Junior Matildas.
A proficient athlete and true chief.
Sarah O’Donoghue
Membership: Alemein Soccer Membership
The Queensland schoolgirls below 18 group choose who was named the QAS below 17 Gamers’ Participant Award winner for 2022.
A QAS participant, O’Donoghue took half within the Junior Matildas coaching camp final yr, and this yr earned a scholarship within the Future Matildas Program. She at the moment performs for the Alemein Soccer Membership in Victoria.
Kira Richards-Bassett
Membership/college: Gold Coast United
Place: Wing
The 17-year-old midfielder is a scorer, thrilling and brimming with potential.
She was after all the youngest participant (15 years) to debut for the Gold Coast United Girls’s group.
Tia Appoo
Membership/college: Lions FC
Place: Ahead
The Bundamba State Secondary School previous woman who as a 12 months 11 made the Queensland College Sport below 19s soccer group. Now with the Lions FC, Appoo was certainly a Queensland shadow participant on the NTC Problem.
Kaitlin McCormack
Membership: QAS
Place: Aim keeper
The QAS Academy member was chosen within the U16s Queensland Maroon squad in 2022 for the Nationwide Youth Championships and later that yr obtained the Goalkeepers award at FQ’s awards evening.
However she can be a freakish futsal participant who represented Queensland’s Beneath 17s facet on the Nationwide Futsal Championships in January.
Macey Edwards
Membership: Lions FC
Place: Ahead
The 18-year-old Lions FC ahead who was as soon as a Sunshine Coast Wanderer and budding Futsal expertise the place she represented Queensland in 2020.
She joined Lions FC teammate Zara Kruger within the Queensland group at this yr’s U18s Nationwide Coaching Centre Problem in Victoria.
Georgie Dean
Membership: QAS
College: Stretton State School
Dean has lengthy been a spotlight reel footballer and the proof is within the pudding. That pudding could be her choice within the QAS program which got here as early as 13.
Halle Nielsen
Membership: QAS
A Darling Downs junior, Nielson is a excessive achiever inside the QAS and final yr was awarded the distinguished Requirements and Behaviours Award winner for 2022 within the below 17 age group.
Darcy Heffernan
Membership: QAS
The Gold Coast United junior is mixing it with one of the best of them inside the QAS, and final yr claimed the QAS Requirements and Behaviours Award, a major achievement given the standard of younger Queensland footballers.
Different excellent younger Queensland feminine footballers from the SEQ embody in current seasons embody: Sunshine Rutch, QAS, Sophie Wooden, QAS, Jade Uhlmann, QAS, Zara Stone, Moreton Bay United, Georgia Dean, QAS, Macey Edward, Sunshine Coast Wanderers, Mia Vie, QAS, Emelia Meli, QAS, Heidi Dennis, QAS, Kiera Godeby, QAS, Emily Clark, Logan Lightning, Tamar Levin, QAS, Tonia-Marie Rantucci, Olympic, Morgan Stanton, QAS, Dani Casey Poila, QAS, Lila Falchetti, QAS, Ashlee Hummel Brisbane Metropolis, Layla Adams, Gold Coast United, Katie Sherar, Peninsula Energy, Libby Latimer, QAS, Cleo Trevett-Lyall, QAS, Emily Clark (GK), Lions FC, Chloe Parker, QAS, Charlie Shanahan, Sunshine Coast Wanderers, Halle Trevett-Lyall, QAS, Marli Hazard, QAS, Emily Haines, QAS, Ashley Lam, QAS, Mia Gleeson, QAS, Lilli Dunn, QAS, Ciara Evans, QAS, Arabella Ryan, QAS, Greta Howard, QAS, Mackenna Magill, QAS, Amber Faherty, QAS, Rosie McMahon, QAS
Olivia Morris, Moreton Bay United, Lily Simpson, QAS, Lily Punch, QAS, Shayla Williams, QAS, Emily Doring, QAS, Alyssa O’Grady, QAS, Sophie King, QAS, Michaela Foster, QAS, Kayla Murcutt, QAS, Mia Afoa, Moreton Bay United, Huntah Wilson, QAS, Georgie Zerbst, Gold Coast United, Jesse Levenson, Sunshine Coast Wanderers
Footnote 2: Our story primarily targeting the 16-18 gamers some below 15s, however we’d like to say Rani Sharma who final yr gained the QAS below 13 Gamers Participant award for her season efforts, together with fellow award winners Arabella Ryan (QAS below 13 Requirements and Behaviours Award winner).
Initially revealed as SEQ’s top soccer schoolgirls glimpsed here