Durham Women FC celebrated the 2023/24 season across the club at our annual End of Season Awards Dinner.
Held at the Raddison Blu Hotel in the heart of Durham, all the club’s pathway and senior teams gathered to celebrate another season of success and progression.
As well as celebrating our collective achievements – which included trophies for our U10, U12, U14 and U16 teams (with a final still to come for the U14s!), a new senior record attendance and major results for Durham Cestria and Durham Cestria U23s – we also dished out a number of individual awards.
Here’s who won what at the 2023/24 awards:
First Team
- Golden Boot – Amy Andrews
- Young Player of the Year – Ella Wilson
- Player of the Year – Mollie Lambert
- Players’ Player of the Year – Lily Crosthwaite
- Supporters’ Player of the Year – Sarah Wilson
Durham Cestria
- Golden Boot – Alisha Mainwaring
- Most Improved – Becca Bell
- Player of the Year – Jen Knowles
- Players’ Player of the Year – Leanna Giles
Durham Cestria U23
- Golden Boot – Cassie Donald
- Most Improved – Eva Mysleyko
- Player of the Year – Ruby Wanless
- Players’ Player of the Year – Cassie Donald
PGA U21s
- Golden Boot – Alisha Mainwaring
- Most Improved – Lucy Noble
- Player of the Year – Grace Mackie
- Players’ Player of the Year – Leanna Giles
PGA U16s
- Most Improved – Freya Sinclair
- Player of the Year – Daisy Clarke
- Players’ Player of the Year – Grace Forster
U14s
- Most Improved – Anna Hind
- Player of the Year – Ellen Swan
- Players’ Player of the Year – Shae Adams
U12s
- Most Improved – Molly Reeks
- Player of the Year – Aliya Aujla
- Players’ Player of the Year – Hannah Cloney
U10s
- Most Improved Player – Hope Kelly
- Player of the Year – Ella McDermott
- Players’ Player of the Year – Isla Close & Skye Thompson
We also made special presentations of one-of-a-kind shirts to Patrick Connolly from the Plastic Furniture Company and Frances Connolly from The PFC Trust as a thank you for their continued support.
The club would also like to thank the below individuals who played a key role in staging the evening:
- Stuart Lloyd, Kieran Greaves and the team at the Raddison Blu Durham for hosting us
- Colin Young, who hosted the event
- Laura Smith who provided the videos shown on the evening
- Jane Thwaites who covered the event for social media
- Will Cheshire who attended to photograph the afternoon
- Peter Groom who filmed the awards
A full gallery of images from the event – courtesy of Will Cheshire – will be available on our website soon!