ALTON United football club's girls' section rounded off a triumphant season with a presentation at their clubhouse in Anstey Park.
In the first year which the girls under 14 and under 12 squads had played together (although girls' and ladies' football has long been a feature of the club's activities), they had collected an impressive array of honours.
GFC Alton United had also collected a sponsor, in Motorola, who have provided enough blue and white kit to clothe both squads.
Both the under 14s and under 12s had won their sections of the Basingstoke-based Peter Houseman small sided youth league. The under 12s had been runners-up and the under 14s came third in the Winchester small sided league.
In six-a-side tournaments the under 12s had been winners twice (at Bramley and Hatchwarren) and runners-up three times, while the under 14s had gleaned three runners-up awards.
Two of the girls had emerged as top goalscorers in the Peter Houseman league - Laura Mullan (with 28) in the under 12s, and Becky Warwick (27) in the under 14s. Becky Warwick had also been voted Andover and District Ladies' League player of the year.
Neutral referees at the Hatchwarren six-a-side had voted two Alton girls as the players of the tournament - Dannii Bird (under 12) and Katie Morris (under 14).
Dannii Bird and Becky May had also enjoyed a successful season with the development squad of Southampton Football Club.
The individual club awards were presented by Shelley Cox, an under 16 international player from Southampton FC, and were awarded as follows: under 12 - manager's award Alice Barton, most improved player Laura Jones, players' player Laura Jones; under 14 - manager's award Stephanie Kirkwood and Katie Cook, most improved player Natasha Kennedy, players' player Michelle Brewer.





