Wayde Mills to have a kick at Ballina High School
Brisbane Lions player Wayde Mills, who grew up in Lennox Head, will return to the area next Thursday, August 7, to help the AFL celebrate 150 years of the sport with a Kick Around Australia Day.
Wayde will attend the celebrations at Ballina High School, which the AFL says will be the most easterly point on the mainland having a kick on Kick Around Australia Day.
Thursday, August 7, will mark 150 years since the first recorded game of Australian Football was played.
In 1858, Scotch College and Melbourne Grammar played the first recorded match of Australian Football on Richmond Paddock, today known as Yarra Park next to the MCG.
To celebrate this milestone, Kick Around Australia Day has been scheduled by the AFL to give all Australians the opportunity to join in the celebrations.
As part of Kick Around Australia day, primary and secondary schools around the country will be celebrating footy’s 150th birthday in a number of ways.
Ballina High has a good reason to celebrate AFL at their school after just receiving a brand new set of goal posts donated by AFL Queensland.
Wayde Mills will be visting Ballina High from 2-3pm. He and Ros Mayberry (principal) will run through a banner that will be tied between the new posts.
There will be activities going on at the school during their lunch break (1-1:50pm) but Wayde will not be there until 2pm.
This year the AFL will celebrate the foundation of the game by hosting Tom Wills (creator of AFL) round in Round 19.
The round’s Friday night match between the league’s oldest clubs, Melbourne and Geelong, will be held 150 years and one day after the match between Melbourne Grammar and Scotch.
