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Carrara Saints
Carrara Australian Football Club (nicknamed The Saints) is a Carrara based club competing in the SEQAFL Div 3 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 oval field, often a modified cricket ground. Points are scored by k ... competition & also caters for teams in junior & youth divisions AFLQGC juniors . Origins Carrara Saints AFL Club is a junior and senior Aussie Rules club located on Nielsons Road Carrara, only a stone's throw from The Gold Coast Suns home ground, Heritage Bank Stadium. The Saints have teams from ages 5/6 to 16 years for boys & girls as well as men's senior/reserve teams and also Masters teams The junior club was established in 1998 with various teams taking out the premiership for their age group in their division The senior club was established in 2012 and won their first premiership in 2018. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carrara, Queensland
Carrara is a Suburbs and localities (Australia), suburb in the City of Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia. In the , Carrara had a population of 12,060 people. Geography Carrara is bounded to the east by the southern bank of the Nerang River and to the west mostly by the Pacific Motorway (Brisbane–Brunswick Heads), Pacific Motorway. Carrara is built on the Guragunbah Plain () which was officially named in 2000, having previously been unofficially known as the Merrimac-Carrara Flood Plain. It is the home of Carrara Stadium (also known as Metricon Stadium), the purpose-built cricket and Australian rules football ground where the Gold Coast Suns began playing matches in 2011. History The name ''Carrara'' comes from the Aboriginal word ''Karara'' meaning ''long flat''. Carrara was first used by the Manchester Cotton Company as a cotton plantation that began in the early 1860s. Carrara Provisional School opened in February 1902 in premises lent by farmer Francis Parr until a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
