FROM the Ballarat Lady Devils soccer kit to the Miss England sash – it certainly seems to be a possibility for Amy Laban.
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Ms Laban, who was recruited to Ballarat’s female soccer team last year, has reached the semi-finals of the 2012 Miss England beauty pageant.
She spent the year on the Lady Devils’ list but was hampered by injuries.
Now she is back in England and has a chance of winning the competition.
“People are always surprised that a beauty queen can play football. They seem to expect female footballers to be butch or tomboys,” she told The Sun newspaper in England.
“I’ve always enjoyed sport and love playing football. I played for my school team, even though I was the only girl, and I’d always be having a kick-about in the playground at lunchtime with the lads. I have plenty of girly friends too, but they’d watch from the sidelines.
“My family and friends are all really pleased for me and I’d love to win Miss England. People think all the girls in the competition must be prim and proper with nothing about them, but that couldn’t be further from the truth.”
The winner of the Miss England title, to be decided in June, will represent the country at the Miss World contest in China later this year.
