CPDM Bangor add experienced pairing to youthful squad
CPDM Bangor is a team renowned for its youthful exuberance, but now its management has decided to introduce some experience to enhance the product.
Forward Catrin Thomas, 36, and defender Sioned Bohana, 35, have been brought in by Aron Griffith, Lefty Wright and Lois Regan to add steel to the squad.
Last season, both women, who hail from Caernarfon, were in the CPDM Pwllheli side which won the North Wales Women’s League West and overall title as invincibles.
However, they now join Bangor as free agents.
CPDM Bangor compete in tier 2 Genero Adran North, a level Thomas and Bohana have played at before.
Indeed, they have also competed in the top-tier former Welsh Premier Women’s League with Caernarfon Town.
Mother-of-three Bohana has spent the majority of her football career with Caernarfon, having started playing the game in her years at Ysgol Syr Hugh Owen.
She was a member of Caernarfon’s 2016-17 North Wales Women’s League title-winning side, and represented the Cofis on numerous occasions in the Welsh Premier.
The hard-tackling defender was with Llandudno in 2019-20, performing brilliantly at the back before the team resigned from the Welsh Premier Women’s League in December 2019.
Renowned for her deadly left-foot, Bohana moved on to Mountain Rangers in 2019-20, along with Thomas, but it was a short-lived association, as the season was cut short due to Covid and the following campaign got cancelled for the same reason.
Bohana joined Pwllheli in 2021-22 and represented the team in the tier 2 Genero Adran North. She later returned to Caernarfon, but was back at Pwllheli in 2023-24.
The sister of well-known Caernarfon Town captain Darren Thomas, Catrin first began playing football with locally-based Cae Glyn. She later progressed to play for her school before joining Caernarfon Town.
In 2015/16, Catrin was part of the formidable Llandudno squad which reached the FAW Women’s Cup Final. Although the Seasiders lost 5-2 to Cardiff City FC Women, Catrin scored one of her team’s goals at Latham Park.
The following season was probably the most successful of Catrin’s career. She rejoined Caernarfon Town and scored 38 goals in less than half that amount of games as the Canaries stormed to the North Wales Women’s League title and Betty Pickering Cup double.
Town won the championship by a 13-point margin, scoring 120 goals and conceding just 13. Catrin scored seven goals in one game against Prestatyn – and on her birthday.
At the end of the season Catrin was presented with the Grassroots North Wales Women’s Player of the Year award.
She returned to the Welsh Premier League with Caernarfon for the 2017-18 season, but the team struggled and finished next to bottom.
The following campaign saw the Canaries resign from the WPWL after just a handful of games. In March 2019, Catrin signed for Mountain Rangers and scored on her debut in a 3-2 cup win over Pwllheli.
After rejoining Llandudno, she returned to Rangers, spent 2021-22 and 2022-23 with CPDM Y Felinheli, and signed for Pwllheli last season, scoring eight goals in their title-winning campaign.