🟫🟨 INDIGENOUS JUMPER REVEAL🟫🟨

Heidelberg West Football Netball Club is excited to reveal our first indigenous playing strip as worn by one of our current indigenous players Alex Williamson. We will wear this playing strip for the first time in our Friday Night Lights event with Fitzroy Stars. As a club we continue to grow and encourage an inclusive environment that embraces the different cultures within our community.

Current indigenous member of our playing group Alex Williamson played a strong hand working with Bindi James in bringing this design to life and he provided detail on some of the inspiration behind the design.

“We wanted to represent the traditional Heidelberg West Jumper and incorporate Aboriginal art at the same time. We wanted to make it appear as though we were peeling back a traditional jumper to display the culture inside the club.

We have separated the traditional Heidelberg West jumper and Aboriginal art with some Traditional etchings.

The Long Neck Turtle is representation of the Yorta Yorta Nations Totem.

The circles on the front represent campsites with people sitting around them. We purposely did 24 people to represent the 18 Football players who take the field, 4 players on the bench and the 2 coaches the Head Coach and Assistant Coach.

On the back of the playing jumper we have replaced the traditional stripes with traditional etchings of shields. They have been placed on the back of the jumper to represent the players and community protecting each other and having each other’s back protected.”

A big thank you to Holcim Australia Pty Ltd for sponsoring our indigenous jumper and allowing the design to come to life Friday night

Holcim Australia and New Zealand
Alex Williamson