Candace - Head Coach / Owner
Candace has a well rounded and extensive playing experience, playing at a professional and elite level for many years, as well coaching youth NPL teams. She has played at Marconi Stallions (NPL 1) for majority of her youth and senior football, as well as having a season with Bankstown City Lions First Grade (NPL 1) and Blacktown Spartans First Grade (NPL 1). She attended Westfields Sports High School whilst representing NSW multiple times and the junior National Team. She also had a season with the Western Sydney Wanderers in 2013, before attending the University of Wyoming (USA) competing in the Mountain West Conference (NCAA D1). In 2017 she graduated with a Nutrition Science Degree and moved back home to Sydney. In recent years she has coached in the youth space at Marconi Stallions (NPL) and currently holds an FFA C License.
Candace is passionate about football, and passionate about helping younger players coming through as well as any player at any stage of their game.
Her experience provides a unique perspective on football, particularly the mindset that she developed through navigating career ending injuries whilst living overseas away from her family, and having further setbacks that kept her isolated from the game for four years. She has a “never back down” attitude and a high work rate that is shown on and off the field. She knows anything is possible with the right mindset and she uses this to inspire, motivate and educate players’ on their journeys, so that they can learn and adapt to have success in football and in life.
The driving force of HPF is to provide technical and intense training that delivers results, as well as provide support and mentorship to help developing players grow into champions.
