2024 - Rowan Cicero

On Field

Rowan Cicero...

2023 - David Pasco

On Field

David Pasco...

2021 - Andrew Pullar

Andy Pullar...

2020 - Paul MacKenzie

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2019 - David Parker

David Parker was an intrugral part of the development of the women's space at BBAFC.  David initially was coaching just his son Jamie and an unruly but talented mob, as they passed through the 8, 9 and 10th grade alongside fellow coach Mike Nevines. (That initial group included BBAFC alumna Jacqui Hand, now a Football Fern, who we managed neither to ruin nor put off football forever!! Also Jack Nevines and Ethan Butler who went on to senior football at the club).

David took on the girls at 13th grade, including daughter Charlie, as they moved en bloc from Fencibles.  When the girls finished 17th grade it was ‘do we give up or play senior football’ and most wanted to carry on if they could and were still in Auckland. So the Junior Prizegiving recruitment 'mum' drive began.  David started a ‘new to football’ group mainly Mums of BBAFC kids, for a 6 week never-played-before summer intro to the game on the brand new turf at William Green. (This was repeated each summer for a few years and over 100 ladies gave football a go). Also entering a couple of women’s only teams in the summer 7-a-side mixed comp at Fencibles each year and that was where the BBAFC Vixens name was first born (most people will have forgotten that’s where the name first came from). 

In 2014 the first senior womens team was entered into the AFF Div4 League, with a team of mixed ages 16 to 45, including two mum-daughter combinations, resulting during the season in a 6-1 win over Clendon at Roger’s Park.

2015 numbers rose and two teams were fielded, training together as one squad, Wednesday evenings at William Green Domain. The coaching team doubled to two with Kim White asissting David and taking the second team to games, plus the occasional guest appearances (Rowan Cicero). Without any other advertising or recruitment other than our own BBAFC mums each year, numbers grew through word of mouth including getting a regular supply of American and German nannies working in East Auckland!!

"BBAFC was so supportive - They WERE the women’s senior first team, and the club treated the group as such.  Sunday morning Rogers Park fixtures were just brilliant, with food in the Pav after the game.  With that one team we won promotion from Div 3, and then with numbers increasing and fielding two teams we were in  Div 2 and Div 4, the latter of which were at that time bottom of the table, winless and officially the worst team in Auckland Women’s football. But we always said we were better footballers than those who weren’t even bothering and if we kept practising and learning that would change. Sure enough, the milestones came - a first goal, a first point, a first win, then a seemingly miraculous but in my mind inevitable 5 game winning streak, celebrated in exactly the same way as the games where the ladies finished on the other side of the score line. From one end of the spectrum to the other though, a sense of fun, a fierce determination to learn and be better, and enjoying and supporting each other, just by being part of it, just being a true team and playing football, and a love of being all that. Plus some great end of season parties!  I was so proud of both teams, but my proudest coaching moments were watching that perhaps somehow unexpected Div 4 group grow and develop, build friendships and ties that continue to this day, even with former players now retired or moved back to the US or on to Australia or playing for other cubs but still loving football. Just look at the comments on socials for everyone still connected.  That’s what football should be about, and that’s why I stayed away from outside recruitment of players and aims for a higher-level team for the club. Not because they aren’t laudable aims, but because I loved what this group were creating. And I still love that I was/am part of that particular element of what BBAFC provides in the community I called home for 22 years and miss every day. What a time we had……              "   David P