Students successfully make it to football tournament final at Prenton Park with no team training
by Educate Magazine June 12, 2023 · All News / Secondary School News
Year 8 girls at St John Plessington Catholic College (SJP) recently played at Tranmere Rovers’ Prenton Park as part of the West Kirby Grammar School Football Tournament final.
The team achieved this amazing feat after being formed just one week before the announcement of the tournament due to SJP still transitioning between its winter and summer sports teams.
Though the girls play for different teams outside of school and had played with around one or two other people in the group, they had never played together as a unit until the qualifying tournament, meaning they entered with no practice or training as a team beforehand.
Throughout the tournament, they played highly impressive matches against five other local schools, winning a couple and drawing in another two. The points won by other schools were unknown, so the girls were completely unaware until the official results announcement that they were one of two teams to make it to the final.
