Our Club
About La Trobe University Football Club
Our Club has a rich history since its establishment in 1967 and our women’s football has continuously led the way over the past decade since being established in 2009.
We play in the Victorian Amateur Football Association (VAFA) and field five teams competing in the league. Senior, Reserve and Thirds men, and Senior and Reserve women teams. With our brand new state of the art community level football oval and facilities opened in 2019 we endeavor to play all five of our teams together at home as often as possible to continue to build what we believe is a inclusive, united football Club for all.
A founding member of the La Trobe University Sports and Recreation Association, the La Trobe University Football Club has achieved success throughout its years enjoying 7 Senior Men premierships (1969, 1976, 1988, 1989, 1999, 2009, 2010), 5 Reserve Men premierships, a Senior Women premiership in 2011, a Club XVIII Men premiership in 2014 and 4 Intervarsity Men championships.
Pre-Season Training Times
We hope to return to training in early 2021 which will be Monday and Wednesday nights 6pm at the Tony Sheehan Oval in the La Trobe University Sports Park.
Meet Our Committee
We pride ourselves as a student run Club and this is evident in our young and vibrant committee filled with recent alumni and current La Trobe University Students. With a blend of experienced committee members and a few fresh faces our 2021 Committee continues to grow and develop our Club.
Meet Our Coaches
Andy, former Premiership Coach at the Club, returns as Senior Coach for our men in 2021.
Andy played 112 senior games for La Trobe and was selected in the 1977-1986 Club Team of the Decade. Andy returned to coach the La Trobe Senior Men between 1999-2001, where he won the VAFA Division 2 Premiership in 1999. He was selected as Coach of the Clubs 1997-2006 Team of the Decade. Andy spent a further nine seasons as a Senior Assistant coaching in VAFA Premier Division with St Kevin’s OB in 2002-03, Maznod OC in VAFA Premier B Division 2004-08 and VAFA Representative Teams in 2009-10.
Jaryd joined the Club in 2017 as Senior Coach for our women, reaching the finals in 2018. Jaryd has an enthusiastic drive for development as a coach and for his players which has been evident in the consistent improvement over the past three seasons.
Jaryd played his junior football with the Mildura FC and Old Camberwell Grammarians before playing with Masala FC the past five seasons, where he won the reserve leading goal kicking (2017 & 2018), and reserve runners up best and fairest (2016, 2017 & 2018). Jaryd join La Trobe in 2019 where he won the Reserve Men leading goal kicking and third in the best and fairest.
Grant has played 132 games for the club since 2010, he has a decorated resume including senior captain, Club Secretary and is a Life member.
Michael debuted for the Club in 2001 where he played 127 games until his last season in 2013. During his playing days Michael was the Club XVIII captain in 2005. Michael was also heavily involved as an assistant coach between 2006-11 for both Dean Sheldrick and Zoran Colavic, including our 2009 Senior Men Premiership.
Jaryd in 2021 will remain our Senior Women’s Coach while also taking on a Assistant Coaching role with our Senior Men.
Josh joined the coaching ranks in 2020 as our U19 Men’s Coach and in 2021 will be an Assistant Coach for our Senior Men.
Josh joined the Club in 2014 where he was part of our U19’s program. He has since played both seniors and reserves for La Trobe, accumulating 49 games for the club. Josh played his junior football with Mildura FC where he won multiple under-age premierships, including captaining their U18’s to a back to back premiership.
Meet Our Sponsors
Major Sponsors
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Support Sponsors
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Partners
Outside The Locker Room
OTLR are a not-for-profit foundation that provide critical mental health education and welfare support to community sporting clubs, schools and workplaces across Australia.
Their vision is to connect lives and communities through conversation by delivering welfare and education programs that build both collective and individual mental health and wellbeing within our communities.
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La Trobe Sport
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- sport@latrobe.edu.au
Our Logo
The Story Behind Larry La Trobe
A Great Logo for a Great Man
The Club logo is based on a real person, the one and only Graeme “Gus” Guppy.
It was created by one of Bob Segrave’s staff, artist Rosemary Sale, as part of marketing for La Trobe University hosting the intervarsity championships in 1973. An irrepressible, effervescent character, Gus was in many ways the epitome of a devil-may-care, authority-defying ethos prevalent at the time. Teammates turning up for pre-season training in 1976 were devastated to learn that Gus had taken his life over the summer, on 12 December of the previous year. He left us far too early, but is forever young.
“The logo is truly an amalgam of the spirit of the Club at the time,” said Jim McMillan. “For decades, he may have become somewhat dated but is very much back in hipster present”
Gus would be amused at that.
Gus was the heart and soul of the Football Club and, above all, he was gut-wrenchingly funny. Gus’s humour was never at anyone else’s expense and he was able to unite all university teams together with his goodwill and camaraderie. He never had a bad word for anybody and was a friend to us all.
Mind you, you can take goodwill and camaraderie a bit too far sometimes. Gus’s social leadership might have contributed to one or two losses!