PLAYER, COACH, VICE-PRESIDENT & PRESIDENT

Lyn Ketter was an integral part of Brisbane women’s football for longer than her husband, Guenter Pfuhl. The first woman in Australia to gain the ‘Level 2’ ASF Coaching Certificate at Tallebudgera in 1976, she was the only female in a group of 72 trainees. She returned in 1977 for the ‘Level 3’ ASF Certificate, a five-day course. Two days in, she was directed to leave the course by the National Director of Coaching, Eric Worthington, who cited that it was a FIFA rule that women could not participate on the field of play with men, even in a Coaching Course. He told her she could stay and watch from the sideline (even though she’d paid for the Course). She stepped away from the course, but not from football. A 13 year playing career overlapped with 15 years of coaching between 1977 and 1992. Lyn served as President of SQWSA (South Qld Women’s Soccer Assn) in 1988 & 1989 and SQWSA instrumental in forming the full State association of WSQ (Women’s Soccer Qld), which she served as President from 1990 until 2004, when the FFA demanded the running of women’s football be placed under the governance of Football Queensland.