LOCK & GRAY OFF TO THE USA
Experienced women’s football duo, Gray and Lock, heading Stateside, and some Murrieta Surf Living out a dream is one thing, being able to live out your dream a second time around is something else indeed, but, for Newcastle United Women pairing, Rhiannon Gray and Courtney Lock, that is exactly what’s about to happen. Both have racked up over a decade of experience apiece whilst in their native north-east with, alongside their appearing for the Lady Magpies, Rhiannon having spent time
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on Wearside with Sunderland, and Courtney on Teesside with Middlesbrough, oh, and they are both coaches with Sunderland RTC. Well, they were all of that, until now that is, as everything has suddenly changed. Following on from that mass amounts of footballing experience, the duo, come earlymid July, will find themselves Stateside (via a two week ‘break’ in Bucharest, Romania), as they head for San Diego, California. You see, they’ve been headhunted, and seconded, by that of the Mur-
rieta Surf Soccer Club, members of the Development Player League (DPL), and Elite Academy League (EAL), somewhere which has a similar set-up to that provided by our RTC’s on British shores. “It’s something we’ve always spoken about doing, and always wanted to do. “We’ve had a bit of luck about it all, but we’ve spoken to our contacts out there, and we know what I’ll all entail. “It’s similar to the way the RTC’s
