Last year’s Magic and Miles U15 girls at the Titans Challenge. MARANOA Magic Girls Rugby League players are training hard in preparation for the Titans and Broncos Challenges next week.
The south-west girls will head down to Toowoomba next Wednesday to take part in the annual high school rugby league challenge.
Team manager Wendy Clark said the challenge was the main event for the year.
"The girls are really keen and excited for it," Ms Clark said.
"They have been fundraising all year to get down there."
The 13 girls from Roma, Mitchell and throughout the region make up the only girls rugby league team in the south-west.
"It's all about promoting girls rugby league," Ms Clark said.
She said the girls training was the most difficult part of the preparation.
"With the girls living in all different areas it makes it hard to get together for training, so we try to focus on fitness and try to do weekly footy training," she said.
"The day before the comp though, we get together and have a full training session."
The team will follow the Titans comp with a trip to Brisbane two days later for the Broncos Challenge.
Ms Clark said this would be the second year they have competed in both competitions.
"Last year we went really well," she said.
"We'd love to see similar results, if not better.
"As long as they try their best and have fun, if they win, it'll just be a bonus."
She said the challenges were important for the girls to gain experience in professional competition.
"Because we are so far out and the girls don't have regular competition, it's a big opportunity for girls to play against more experienced teams and players and to experience what its like to play in those types of comps," she said.
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