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NZ Kahu out of International Cup

  • Thursday, June 26 2014 @ 11:14 pm ACST
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International Cup 2014

The New Zealand women’s team is not yet ready for competition at the International Cup in 2014.

AFL New Zealands’s Mick Coulthard said “The main contributing factor is the age of the girls that we have currently in our system, aged between 14 and 18 years of age that come through our secondary school programmes”.

Though there are a number of Australian based New Zealanders playing that were interested this was not sufficient for a full team.
 
Coulthard added ”As AFL female participation is still in its infancy within New Zealand, playing the game at a senior level will need to continue being developed with representative opportunities complimenting this”.
 
The U18 NZ Kahus will be playing two series later this year against the U16 Australian Breeze in October for their second ever test series and the Woomeras in December. NZ will be better for last year’s experience, and a longer development program this time, but it is to be expected there will be some one-sided results. The focus just needs to be on continued development.