New Claremont Football Club league coach Ashley Prescott runs a Great Southern Storm training session

Fresh from being appointed as Claremont Football Club’s new senior coach, Ashley Prescott made a visit to Albany earlier this week. Prescott came to Albany on Monday to run a Great Southern Storm training session at Railways Football Club, and helped give an insight into the skills required at WAFL level. The Great Southern region is aligned to the Claremont Football Club, and Prescott was joined by talent manager Jordan Smith and football operations manager Kepler Bradley. Great Southern Storm kicked off their summer program at the end of last month, with plenty of keen and aspiring footballers taking part so far. Smith ran an information session at the conclusion of training, providing information and giving an insight into what it took to be involved in the WAFL system and how to get there. Prescott said he was thrilled to come down to the region. “I have just been appointed the coach of Claremont, and the Albany region is just such a fantastic region for producing tremendous young talent down here, so it’s nice to just come down and probably meet a few of the coaches,” he said. “I’m really keen to build a really good relationship with footy down this way and to help kids that want to come up and have a crack at Claremont. “It’s a wonderful connection and we want to keep that going and even build it even stronger, have a real presence down here in this area as a football club.” Prescott said he was looking forward to being in charge of the Tigers’ league team that contained several Great Southern players. “I’m very excited, it’s a wonderful footy club and it’s a tremendous competition, so it’s really exciting,” he said. “I’m looking forward to getting into training. We won’t start for quite some time yet but it’s a really exciting period.”