IT WAS Women in League round over the past weekend and like all sporting clubs, the Windsor Wolves have some exceptional women who help keep the club afloat.
Linda Reardon, Belinda Webster, Diane Lumtin, Natalie Johns, Nerida Johnson, Lynne Rae and Connie Holloway are part of the back bone that holds the Wolves together.
Reardon has been with the Wolves for over a decade. Her title now is sales and marketing manager and she is also the club secretary.
Her four sons have not played for the Wolves in years. Her daughter, as Reardon said, is no longer dragging them out to the footy each week.
Now is it a new generation of Wolves who make sure Reardon volunteers at the ground every Saturday, along with the other ladies, to ensure the things that need to be done, get done.
“The main thing is the kids, I absolutely adore them,” Reardon said.
“Even the older teenagers, making sure they are off the streets and forming friendships and hopefully guiding each other to bigger and better things even hopefully making NRL sides.
“It is a really proud moment when you see kids who have made it.”
Part of that new generation includes her grandson Mason. Reardon said she hoped Mason was the first of many grandchildren to play for the Wolves.
Reardon is an employee of the Wolves, but Saturday is her own time, which she donates because she loves the club and the game.
“I could be ground managing, working in the canteen, selling merchandise or raffle tickets, pretty much whatever needs to be done,” she said.
Reardon admitted there were days when she would not mind a full weekend during the winter, but at the end of the day was more than happy to be at Windsor every Saturday.
“I just feel that I should be here and it is always good to keep your finger on the pulse,” she said.
“I'd love to not work every weekend but we make it work.
“Kids understand that during football season mum might come home cranky sometimes, but they are pretty good.”
Of course, Reardon was at pains to point out it was not a one woman show at the ground on the weekends.
“The girls are just awesome. I couldn’t do it without them,” she said.
Reardon also said the club was about extended family and during Women in League round, it was important to remember the mums, grandmothers and other women who took their kids to training and sport on the weekends.
