The first grade team made the preliminary final in Wagga after staging a late-season comeback. 

Coach Jemma Pound was proud of her side’s result. 

“I was really pleased with how the season went. I was really proud of how far we went and how far we got,” she said. 

“We just took a while to get ourselves sorted. It took us a little while to gel.” 

A grade went from winning one game in the first half of the season to six wins, one loss and a draw. 

“We had a pretty strong finish. We came home pretty strong.” 

While she aims to improve again next season, a third-place on the ladder was a good end to the season. 

“We went from seven halfway through, to finishing third.” 

It was the first game of the second-half of the season that saw the team begin to turn things around. 

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“They were higher on the ladder than us. When we beat them, we started to gel together and play better as a team.” 

When asked for her opinion on most-improved, Jemma couldn’t narrow it down to just one. 

“We had a young girl, Molly Young, come up for her first year in A-grade… she’s done a great job.” she said.  

In Molly’s first year in the top grade side she was nominated for the league’s rising star award. 

“Hannah Buchanon, our shooter, has also done really well this year,” Jemma said. 

Coly also had individual standouts in Sally Foster and Giaan Cullen who were runner up and second runner up in under 15’s and 13’s best and fairest competitions.

A-Grade’s Brianna Clark was also named wing attack in the 2017 team of the year. 

While the other sides didn’t enjoy the same success, Jemma commends their efforts. 

“A-Reserve were quite competitive but they just couldn’t seem to get over the line in some of their games,” she said. 

“They definitely had a good time and improved throughout the year. We definitely saw improvement throughout the year, but unfortunately we didn’t get all the wins we would have liked.” 

Community participation was also up. The Blues were able to fill all four teams. 

Another highlight for Jemma was watching some of the talent come up through the junior competition.

“Two of our A-Grade girls were able to coach some of the junior sides. That was really pleasing,” she said. 

“We’ve got some really good long players coming up through the grades. It’ll be good to see them in the future.”