Willie Henderson
Former striker at Alnwick Town first team, Willie established women's football in Wooler in 2001 when a conversation in The Red Lion led to the setting up of Glendale Ladies who merged with Lowick in 2008. He has been central to the growth of the girl's game throughout that time, and became manager of the girl's squad in the year of the merger. Willie's experience, patience and long-term vision of player development is a huge asset to the club.
tel. 01668 281137
mob. 07765 349899

Dawn Purvis

Goalkeeper for Lowick Ladies, Dawn took her level 1 coaching badge in 2005 and shares her time between her own training and helping Willie, Davey and Ian with the girl's squad.

tel. 01289 305885
mob. 07990 785084

Saturday 6th March 2010 - Lowick 2- 1 Bedlington

Saturday 12th Dec 2009: Ashington 2- 5 Lowick United

The Lowick girls entered this fixture full of confidence, top of the league and on the back of a 6 game run of impressive victories. The team have been scoring goals for fun recently and have the best defence in the league.

The day was to be full of surprises however, the first one being that Leonie forgot her boots and was going to play in trainers! The second surprise was that the game was to be played on third generation astro-turf (perhaps Leonie had known something that we did`nt). Many of the girls were wary of the surface having never played on it before and this showed in the opening exchanges of the game.

Ashington started the game brightly having the best of the early exchanges and putting the Lowick defence of Catherine, Oriana and Ailsa under early pressure. Lowick always looked dangerous on the break and Becky had an early opportunity to score narrowly missing from 20 yards. The pitch was proving difficult to master and Lowick did not seem able to employ their passing game. Ashington were gaining a lot of possession in midfield and after 15 minutes they opened the scoring when there centre forward latched on to a through pass to score.

This spurred on Lowick and after 20 minutes Sammy released Becky who went on to slot the ball home. In previous games this would have been the impetus for Lowick to press on and score more goals but despite the tireless work of Mel and Georgia in midfield Ashington continued to have the better of the play and although Becky and Libby has further chances to score it was Courtney in goal who had to be alert making a great save just before half time.

The second half saw positional changes with Mel moving to sweeper and Oriana moving into midfield. This seemed to have the desired effect as although Ashington continued to pressurize the Lowick defence they began to create chances on the break and after the keeper parried a shot from Sammy, Becky was able to follow up and score from close range. Lowick took confidence from this and with Holly getting room on the right wing chances began to increase. Becky`s shooting radar finally began to work and Lowick increased their lead with only 20 minutes to go when a through ball from Georgia allowed Becky to get her hat-trick.

Due to injuries and tactical adjustments substitutions were made and Hope, Leonie and Kirsten slotted into the team. For the first time in the game Lowick began to dominate and it was against the run of play when a foul was committed on the edge of the 18 yard box allowing Ashington a scoring opportunity. The Ashington captain took the free kick and scored a goal David Beckham would have been proud of, it was now 2-3!

It seemed like it would be a nervous last 15 minutes for the coaches but we need not have feared. Catherine took a short corner to Sammy, received the ball back and curved the ball over the keeper, her first goal of the season. Nerves finally settled, Lowick were now in full swing with both Becky and Leonie having chances to score, before Sammy got her reward scoring Lowicks fifth goal minutes before the final whistle.

Although not Lowicks best performance of the season it as a good victory against strong opponents and bodes well for the final 4 league games, which are all home fixtures. Sammy Grieve was deservedly named as player of the match, whilst Courtney, Becky, Georgia and Catherine all had excellent games.

Sat 28th Nov 2009: North Shields 3 - 4 Lowick Utd

Lowick's winning run continued against a strong North Shields team. After the defeat Lowick Utd U15's suffered at home (a narrow 2-1 loss) the girls were determined to get something form this game and it was clear from kick off that it was going to be a close contest.

Lowick settled quicker than the home team and good work in midfield with Georgia T and Holly dominating. A fine pass from Sammy found Becky who ran on to score Lowick's 1st goal. It was end-to-end stuff and Lowick missed a chance to go 2-0 up when Libby narrowly put past the post. She made amends for this in the second half. Carly was making some good runs on the right wing and at times had the North Shields defence run ragged. Just before half time North Shields equalised making honours even at the interval.

Instead of Lowick's heads going down they came out in the second half with even more determination, but it was North Shields who went 2-1 up. Lowick pushed on and was quickly level when the ball fell to Libby and a bullet shot went in off the crossbar 2-2. Not settling for the draw Lowick battled well. Some good clearances from Katherine kept finding Sammy on the left who always delivers a good ball. Most play came on the right wing with Carly having her best game of the season so far and this resulted in a great individual goal, Carly got the ball near the half way line and beat three North Shields players and fired into the top right hand corner to make it 3-2.

Again Lowick pushed on and was quickly 4-2 up when good work in midfield by Georgia T found Becky and she slotted home for her second of the game. This seemed to spur North Shields on and they piled the pressure on, they hit the bar twice and some fine goal keeping from Courtney frustrated them. There was nothing either the defence or the goalkeeper could do for North Shields third goal, this made the game 4-3 and made it a nervous last 5 minutes. But Lowick shut up shop and came away with the three points they richly deserved.

Another brilliant display from the whole team. Well done Becky, oppositions player of the match. Managers player of the match went to Carly. 

Sat 21st Nov 2009: Blyth Town 0 - 8 Lowick Utd

Lowick went into this game full of confidence and after an even start to the game Lowick settled down very quickly and started to dominate.

Libby, Becky and Carly all tested the Blyth keeper and she did well to keep a buoyant Lowick team at bay. Quick play from a throw-in from Carly resulted in Holly picking the ball up just outside the box and coolly slotted home the opening goal. Lowick was quickly on the score sheet again when some good play by Carly on the wing resulted in Georgia Thompson receiving the ball and a shot on goal resulted in the Blyth keeper spilling the ball only for G.T to follow the ball up and score.

Lowick was 4-0 up at half time with goals coming from Sammy and Becky after they swapped positions. It could have easily been more if it were not for the Blyth keeper making some outstanding saves. Blyth started brightly in the second half and the outstanding Mel at the back dealt with an early free kick effectively. Substitutions were made with Libby and Ailsa making way for Leonie and Oriana, and Georgia S and Hope coming on for Katherine and Carly. Lowick kept the pressure on and some good football by Kirsten and Leonie saw the ball fall to Sammy who made it 5-0. Quickly after this Lowick was 6-0 up with Sammy getting her hat-rick. Georgia T made it 7-0. Lowick took advantage of the rolling subs and Libby came on to make it 8-0.

Blyth did have some good shots but keeper Courtney was more than able to deal with them, she also made some good clearances. The score line could easily have been double figures if it hadn't been for an on-form Blyth keeper. All in all Lowick United's confidence is growing game by game, which will put them in good stance for next week's top of the table clash against North Shields. Well done Becky Player of the Match.

Word from Assissant Gaffer - Another solid performance by Lowick whose team spirit is second to none You all played well from the keeper to the defence through the midfield to the strikers; well done all of you. The efforts you have all put in this year and the hard works is starting to pay off. A hard game next week keep up the good work and be proud of yourselves for what you have achieved so far. - Dawn

Sat 14th Nov 2009: Ponteland 1 - 11 Lowick Utd

The Girls continued their recent good run with a third away win of the season at Ponteland. After good wins at Kingston Park and Bedlington in recent weeks the squad went into the match in high spirits but were soon put in their place when Ponteland started by far the stronger an took an early lead. Up till then Lowick had found it very hard to get their passing game going and were being closed down very quickly by the home side. 

After a reshuffle in midfield things started to look a lot better and Carly and Sammy playing out wide started to get behind the home defence and looked dangerous. Sammy Becky and Libby all went close before Sammy got us back on level terms and then soon after she put Lowick 2-1 up. Once in front Lowick never looked like giving up their lead and a further 3 goals from Sammy as well as 2 each for Libby and Becky  along with strikes from Georgia T,  and captain Marvel Mel saw the match won.

The scoreline is not a true reflection on how well Ponteland played especially in the first 20 minutes and I am sure they will provide very difficult opposition when they travel to Berwick later in the season.

Another very good all round performance and well done to everyone but especially Sammy who was voted by Ponteland as our player of the match for her all round performance.   

The team are again on their travels this weekend when they travel to Blyth Spartans