On the ball Conon ladies have eye on major footballing prize
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CONON Ladies football team has really kicked off since it was formed just over a year ago.
The girls are now playing regularly against teams from all over the Highlands and have even attracted sponsorship from local firm Everest Ltd.
Founder member, Chloe MacLeod (22), from Conon, told the Ross-shire Journal: “Most of the girls in the team are local, from Conon, Dingwall, Muir of Ord and Strathpeffer, but we also have three girls who regularly travel down from Ullapool every week.
“We train at the artificial pitch at Ben Wyvis School every Tuesday night. We do 45 minutes training with our coach Ali Matheson before finishing up with a game.”
She added: “But we will be moving to the football pitch in the middle of Conon by mid-April when the nights get lighter.”
Chloe decided to start a ladies team in the village after contacting a couple of girls she used to play football with at Dingwall Academy.
She said: “I’ve been saying for a long time I wanted to get back into it again. So I messaged a couple of the girls to arrange a kick-about once a week. It grew from there and then I asked Ali if he fancied training us to get things going. We haven’t really stopped since, we are now playing all year round.
“Next year we are hoping to enter the Scottish Cup.’
The girls train at Ben Wyvis School on Tuesday nights – 6.30pm to 7.30pm.
