The 2012 new player sign-up and recruitment day for the Atlanta Kookaburras and the Atlanta Australian Rules Football League is this Saturday February 18th. Everyone is welcome, so come on down from  10:30am-12pm at Dekalb Memorial Park, Wilkinson Road, East Atlanta (Off I-20 @ Exit 61b).

Atlanta Kookaburras have best showing at US Nationals in some time.

The Atlanta Kookaburras travelled to Austin Texas for the 2011 US Nationals riding a 7 game winning streak, equal to the longest in the club’s history. With comfortable wins against Boston, North Carolina, Ft Lauderdale and Baton Rouge / Houston and a 3-point squeaker against Nashville during the year, the Kookas were expecting nothing less that a Division 3 final as a result for the Nationals weekend.

On a dry and dusty field and with no weaknesses on the team, save a lack of numbers on the bench, the Kookas faced the New York (B) team in the opening game. New York fielded a full compliment of players, which shows the strength of the game up north and it was a close tussle for the first half, with New York scoring 3 straight goals and the Kookas 3 goals 3 behinds. Nerves might have been the reason that Atlanta was not further in front as they fielded 6 first-year players, including Matt Williamson playing in only his second ever game of footy and Mitch Brennan playing his first. Matt and Mitch were late additions to the team, but their previous basketball skills transferred over to the football field with ease.