About Pine Rivers United Sports Club
Premier Cup Winners 2007
AWARDED Brisbane North & Districts Junior
Soccer Association's CLUB OF THE YEAR FOR 2004.
Pine Rivers
United Sports Club is located in the heart of Pine Rivers Shire at Wendy
Allison Park facing busy Samsonvale Road, Strathpine. It is a fully licensed
club with gaming machines and caters for men's football, women's football and
junior football as well as netball and social darts. Whilst a multi-sports
club, the Club's core sport is Premier League Football and as such attracts
talented junior players and their families from outlying areas such as
Redcliffe, Caboolture and Bribie Island and nearby districts such as
Sandgate, Albany Creek, Petrie and Kallangur.
The Club was
formed as a soccer club in 1967 by a local man Jack Gurteen, from a group of
Pine Rivers High School students who used to kick a ball around in their
lunch time. The lads approached Jack and a game was arranged with Redcliffe
City U14's at Redcliffe. The Pine Rivers team won 5-3! As a result, parents
of the winning team decided to get together and start a club. At the same
time a number of youngsters from Lawnton State School came along and asked
for a game. They were 9-12 year olds. Jack arranged a game against Zillmere,
but Rivers lost 16-0. The Club later became incorporated as a multi-sports
club. The current clubhouse was built in 1978.
Facilities
include a floodlit main football pitch on which our men and women play day
and night games, as well as two other well lit training fields which are used
for our Junior player games. There are also two floodlit netball courts.
During the
off-season, there are social six-a-side and five-a-side competitions for
seniors and juniors. These run at night from early September until the
Christmas break.
The new
Management Committee strongly believes 2008 to be a turning point in the
Club's history.
Pine Rivers
United Junior Football and Netball are major participants in providing to
Pine Rivers' and surrounding districts' youth an avenue to play a sport
throughout the winter and summer seasons.
Last year our
semi-professional senior team again played in the Premier League Final Series
and won the Premier Cup.
By having a
successful team in the Premier League we hope to increase our Junior numbers
further as this provides an exciting avenue and goal for these younger
players to strive for in their futures as football players.
Several times
throughout the year we invite teams from other clubs in and around Brisbane
as well as from Kingaroy, Gympie and Byron Bay to compete in our Junior Carnivals.
In 2007 these Carnivals saw Pine Rivers compete well in every age group;
which is a great achievement by any standards.
