2024 U16 Academy Programs

Our Academy provides an update on trial times and squad selection for our 2024 U16 players.

By Lachlan Sosinski

U16 Girls

Ahead of the U16W season, we will be hosting an open trial for any female athletes born in 2008 & 2009. There will be three sessions (5^th, 7^th & 12^th of December), following this, a squad will be selected to progress into the U16W Academy.

Click the link below to register:

https://www.playhq.com/afl/register/445837

We will also be releasing our initial U18W squad next week.

U16 Boys

Congratulations to all 60 boys selected in the U16M Gold Coast SUNS Academy squad for 2024. It is recognition of their performance during the 2023 season.

First	Surname	Club
Ryan	Ballantyne	Broadbeach
Jack	Barratt	Labrador
Blake	Bebendorf	Broadbeach
Nicholas	Bouwmeester	Surfers Paradise
Mason	Bradley	Labrador
Jez	Brindley	Burleigh
Archie	Brown	Tweed Coolangatta
Harry	Bull	Tweed Coolangatta
Cameron	Burgess	Broadbeach
Jake	Callinan	Surfers Paradise
Jack	Clarke	Tweed Coolangatta
Lachlan	Coles	Southport
Dylan	Gardiner	Palm Beach Currumbin
Xavier	Gonthier	Southport
Blake	Gowing	Pacific Pines
Jett	Green	Surfers Paradise
Lukas	Hall	Surfers Paradise
Josh	Hall	Southport
Archie	Hill	Broadbeach
Ayden	Hinz	Labrador
Nixon	Houlihan	Broadbeach
Hugo	Howard	Broadbeach
Sam	Hynes	Tweed Coast Tigers
Kody	I'Anson	Burleigh
Zac	Jacobson	Broadbeach
Jackson	Jarvis	Palm Beach Currumbin
Cooper	Johnson	Southport
Matthew	Joyce	Surfers Paradise
Leroy	Kaesler	Burleigh
George	Kemmetmuller	Tweed Coast Tigers
Clash	Kevern	Palm Beach Currumbin
Ned	Lawton	Palm Beach Currumbin
Ty	Lockwood	Tweed Coast Tigers
Jake	Marsh	Broadbeach
Isaac	Mayne	Ormeau
James	Milham	Broadbeach
Cooper	Motum	Jimboomba
Brody	Muller	Burleigh
Sam	Murray	Ormeau
Taj	Murray	Burleigh
Deacon	Nikolajevic	Pacific Pines
Tom	O'Brien	Palm Beach Currumbin
Kane	Peters	Burleigh
Max	Phillips	Labrador
Jake	Purss	Surfers Paradise
Josh	Pyke	Broadbeach
Reilly	Sherlock-Clark	Southport
Archie	Simpkin	Surfers Paradise
Jaden	Smith	Labrador
Cody	Teece	Palm Beach Currumbin
Harry	Thomsen	Ormeau
Kodi	Wallace	Burleigh
Cooper	Wee	Southport
Riley	Weir	Tweed Coolangatta
Elijah	Welsh	Burleigh
Jesse	Wenzel	Broadbeach
Ryan	Widdison	Broadbeach
Cody	Willamson	Tweed Coolangatta
Caleb	Williams	Broadbeach
Noah	Young	Coomera

The program will commence on Sunday 10th December.

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