St Mary's Sporting Club Inc., nicknamed the ''Saints'', is an

Australian rules football Australian football, also called Australian rules football or Aussie rules, or more simply football or footy, is a contact sport played between two teams of 18 players on an Australian rules football playing field, oval field, often a modified ...

and

netball Netball is a ball sport played on a rectangular court by two teams of seven players. The primary objective is to shoot a ball through the defender's goal ring while preventing the opposing team from shooting through their own. It is one of a ...

club based in the port city of

Geelong Geelong ( ) (Wathawurrung language, Wathawurrung: ''Djilang''/''Djalang'') is a port city in Victoria, Australia, located at the eastern end of Corio Bay (the smaller western portion of Port Phillip Bay) and the left bank of Barwon River (Victo ...

, Victoria. The club teams currently compete in the Geelong Football Netball League, the premier league in the region.

History

Earlier club

A version of this club existed from 1904 to 1906. They competed in the Church Union Association and won the 1905 Church Union Association premiership. The club was short-lived, disbanding in 1906, and it was another 16 years before St Mary's re-formed. This was done with great success playing in the Geelong Athletics Societies Football Association. It won flags in 1922, 1923, 1924 and 1927 before disbanding again in 1934.

Current club

The club was reformed from the merger of CYMS and YCW Clubs in 1953. They joined the GDFL Evelyn Hurst Cup and won their first flag in 1956. Since then it has become one of the most consistently successful club in the league. It was part of the breakaway that created the

Geelong Football League The Geelong Football Netball League is an Australian rules football and netball league in Victoria (Australia), Victoria, Australia. It is widely regarded as the highest-standard Australian rules football league in regional Victoria, with sever ...

in 1979.

Premierships

**1979, 1992, 2004, 2008, 2019, 2022 * Geelong & District Football League **1956, 1959, 1960, 1967, 1972, 1975 * AFL Barwon Women's Football **2019 (Division 1)

Notable players

* David Armour – * Nick Brushfield – * Jack Condon – * Peter Zychla - * Scott Hosking - Geelong * Jack Henry - *

Brayden Ham Brayden “Sutto” Ham (born 25 April 1999) is an Australian rules footballer who last played for in the Australian Football League (AFL). In his junior career in the TAC Cup he played many positions, before he was selected by Essendon with p ...

- * Oliver Henry - * Charlie Lazzaro - * Toby Conway -

Bibliography

* ''Cat Country: History of Football In The Geelong Region'' – John Stoward –

References

External links

Official website
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