We would like to announce that LJBC has partnered with Perth Glory Football Club to become one of only three Perth Glory Academy Schools in Western Australia. This link provides alignment with a learning pathway to A-League Football for our Football Academy, while remaining distinctly Lake Joondalup Baptist College with its priority of a character-based, academic-focused, Christian education.

This working relationship will allow our coaches to create player development systems that are holistic in nature, which will benefit all students in the High-Performance Sport Football Academy. On-pitch Football and Goalkeeper sessions will continue in the current format. LJBC coaches will structure the Leadership and Strength and Conditioning classes with access to the expertise of Perth Glory staff, where appropriate in the areas of Athletic Development, Nutrition, Injury Prevention and Sports Psychology in order to create individualised training plans for players and monitor training loads.

This partnership will benefit individual players in the High-Performance Sport Football Academy irrespective of which club they play for. Our aim at LJBC is to complement and add value, enabling the LJBC Football Academy to maximize the potential of each player’s development. In approaching this partnership, we seek to align with direct pathways to the highest levels of football and continue building on our relationships with local clubs.

For current Academy players with aspirations of moving into a Perth Glory playing pathway, this relationship allows us to continue to develop you as a player and support that choice. For those who want to continue their development with their current club, this relationship doesn’t change how the LJBC Football Academy works and will complement their clubs training sessions, while developing the whole player.

We look forward to the Football Academy and our students continuing to develop further through this partnership.

SSWA Champion Schools Update

Week 2 saw the commencement of the School Sport WA Champion Schools Competition, with our Junior Girls and Junior Boys Teams winning their first games. The Junior Girls won 3-1 against Woodvale, and the Junior Boys won 9-0 against Woodvale: These are two fantastic results against strong opposition, but more importantly the process and consistency of approach was of a high standard throughout. The intensity, organisation and structure of the playing style was impressive in both games. This is a great start to the competition, and we are looking forward to building on these performances through the year.

Helen Del Frate

Dean of Students