Comet Bay College’s renovated gymnasium and changerooms looked remarkably similar to the Fremantle Football Club’s facilities at Fremantle Oval with the walls adorned with Fremantle logos as well as the carpets, furniture and equipment all adding to the ‘Freo feel’ with purple, white, red and green throughout the buildings.
“We were told we were going to be pleasantly surprised with how the gym and changerooms would look but we didn’t expect Comet Bay to go to the lengths that they did to create a true Fremantle environment as well as they did,” Mr Crute said.
“It was truly remarkable to see how much trouble they went to to pay recognition to the Fremantle Football Club for the assistance they have given Comet Bay as one of the club’s partner schools.”
Comet Bay College offers students an Australian Football Specialist Program. The school competes in the Smarter Than Smoking Cup in the Peel Region and, as an official partner school of Fremantle, wear the Fremantle Football Club playing strip in their matches.
Last year Fremantle presented the school with playing strips for their years 8 and 9 teams and this year added to their collection by donating a set of jumpers for their year 10 team.
Prior to Roger and Steven presenting the school with their newest set of Fremantle jumpers, David interviewed the pair on stage in front of the school’s talented footballers about their rise from playing junior footy to reaching the AFL. The pair encouraged Comet Bay’s players to really commit themselves to reaching the highest level if that was their dream, saying how those who want it the most get there in the end if they put the required work in.
Fremantle boasts 26 partner clubs and schools that spread far and wide from metropolitan Perth to Europe and the United States of America.
The club’s German based partner club, the Hamburg Dockers, hosted the Australian Football EU Cup 2007 at their home ground of Stadtpark in downtown Hamburg in late September. The tournament saw 12 nations from all over Europe compete to see which country was the European Union’s most powerful Australian Footballing nation.
The Hamburg Dockers have been a partner club of the Fremantle Football Club since 2004 and is one of three internationally based partner clubs of Fremantle. The Cincinnati Dockers (USA) and Dublin Dockers (Ireland) join the Hamburg Dockers as the club’s offshore partner clubs.
The Fremantle Football Club partner club programme is proudly supported by Members Equity Bank.
To see Comet Bay College’s Fremantle-themed facilities visit FTV at fremantlefc.com.au and watch Freo Confidential: Round 13.
