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Speaker 1: We have got a phenomenal Territorian who's just been announced

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Speaker 1: to see Australian rugby League women's assistant coach for the

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Speaker 1: upcoming Prime Minister's thirteen international against Papua New Guinea. Her

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Speaker 1: name is Shari Togo and she joins me on the

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Speaker 1: line right now. Good morning, Shari.

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Speaker 2: Good morning to you, Katie. How are you?

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Speaker 1: Yeah? I am so good and I was so excited

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Speaker 1: when I found out that a Territorian is the assistant

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Speaker 1: coach of the Australian women's rugby league team.

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Speaker 3: You are a bloody legend. How good is that? It

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Speaker 3: is so good? Now, Shari, how did you find out

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Speaker 3: that you were going to be the assistant coach?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, so I found out last month and it was

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Speaker 2: all of it, hush hushan up until now. Brad Donald,

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Speaker 2: the Australian angela ruy coach which is also the head

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Speaker 2: coach of the Prime Minister's thirteen, gave me a call

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Speaker 2: up and yeah it was a bit emotional and yeah,

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Speaker 2: well good to go.

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Speaker 3: Sorry, how did you feel when you got that call?

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Speaker 1: Because from what I've read, you've been involved in rugby

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Speaker 1: league for a long time. You play yourself, You coach

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Speaker 1: at a number of different levels.

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Speaker 3: So how did you feel when you got that phone call?

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Speaker 2: Oh? Really emotional actually, like yeah, I was like I

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Speaker 2: had to hang up on him and then bring my

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Speaker 2: husband and he was just like why are you calling me?

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Speaker 2: Hung up and say yeah, I was all just the

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Speaker 2: quickest like ten seconds of my life.

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Speaker 3: I love that. Did you think you did? You think

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Speaker 3: it was like having you on? But he wasn't.

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Speaker 2: For real. Yeah, it was just a random day at

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Speaker 2: work and I just received this phone call and it

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Speaker 2: was just unbelievable. It's still a sinjury moment actually that. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: Brad gave me the call up.

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Speaker 1: That is so awesome. Now tell me when do like

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Speaker 1: when is the tournament?

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Speaker 2: Yeah? So the tournament is played next Saturday, but we

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Speaker 2: head down to camp on the Gold Coast. This this Sunday,

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Speaker 2: we fly out to the Gold Coast into Camp and

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Speaker 2: then from the Gold Coast we head straight over to

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Speaker 2: Port Moresby in New Guinea.

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Speaker 1: So playing against Papua New Guinea for this game? Is

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Speaker 1: that correct?

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Speaker 3: Yes?

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Speaker 1: And and you know have like have you met most

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Speaker 1: of the girls before?

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Speaker 3: Is it sort of going to be you know, is it?

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Speaker 3: What's it going to be? Like heading into camp for

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Speaker 3: the first time this weekend.

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Speaker 2: I've never met the girls. I've met most of the

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Speaker 2: coaching stuff before, which I'm really excited about the girl

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Speaker 2: meeting the girl's team for the first time. It's really

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Speaker 2: keen to get around the girls and athletes and hear

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Speaker 2: their stories and get them pumped for the week before

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Speaker 2: we head over.

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Speaker 1: And the thing that I love about you is I've

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Speaker 1: been told that you are a mum of two kids,

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Speaker 1: You're a proud Indigenous woman, you work full time with

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Speaker 1: kids with disabilities and disadvantage backgrounds, but you still find

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Speaker 1: the time and you've got the energy to captain and

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Speaker 1: play rugby league and also coach a number of different

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Speaker 1: age groups. So how do you reckon you know, all

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Speaker 1: of those skills as well? Shari going to help you

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Speaker 1: know when it comes to mentoring. What are some young

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Speaker 1: quite young women as well in the team.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, just look, I just throw off my family morals

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Speaker 2: and values a lot too, and it's just about building

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Speaker 2: a safe space and building relationships and a strong foundation.

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Speaker 2: And that's where I get my most motivation from. When

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Speaker 2: I go coach my under fifteen girls or if I

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Speaker 2: playing captain now senior women's team. It's just all about

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Speaker 2: keeping a healthy relationship with my team player is yeah,

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Speaker 2: it's good.

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Speaker 3: How are they?

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Speaker 1: How's your under fifteen girls feeling about you going off

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Speaker 1: to be the assistant coach of the Australian site.

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Speaker 2: Are there? They are? Look teenage girls. They don't really

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Speaker 2: show much motion, but oh look they they care and

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Speaker 2: they've got my back one hundred percent, just like I

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Speaker 2: got there. So yeah, they said to give them shout

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Speaker 2: outs and that. So under fifteen girls, Hello, I'm the life.

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Speaker 1: Oh so good Sarry, I just reckon, this is awesome.

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Speaker 1: I mean a lot of people that listen to this show. No,

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Speaker 1: I love rugby league. Both my brothers are assistant coaches,

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Speaker 1: one with the Dolphins and one with one with Saint George.

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Speaker 3: So and yeah, and well one of.

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Speaker 1: My brothers actually coaches the Tonguan international side as well.

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Speaker 1: So I know how huge an opportunity this year for you.

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Speaker 1: And I just think it's absolutely incredible that we've got

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Speaker 1: a territory woman that is going.

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Speaker 3: Off to do this.

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Speaker 2: Thank you, yeah please?

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Speaker 1: And you know, like I think that sometimes we hear

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Speaker 1: in the territory, you also can think to yourself, oh

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Speaker 1: you know, am I going to be able to get

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Speaker 1: opportunities like that when I stay living in the Northern Territory.

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Speaker 1: So I just think that this is really wonderful that

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Speaker 1: You've got the opportunity to do this, and I'm sure

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Speaker 1: that you're going to absolutely shine.

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Speaker 2: Oh thank you so much. And yeah, I've got a

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Speaker 2: big support unit here in the Northern Territory which is

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Speaker 2: unbelievable and all over the state. So I just can't

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Speaker 2: wait to do myself proud and everyone that's supporting me

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Speaker 2: proud also.

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Speaker 1: Well, Shari, I reckon that everybody's going to be watching

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Speaker 1: the Australian Rugby League women's team, well with a little

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Speaker 1: everyone from the territory with a bit of extra interest

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Speaker 1: than usual this time around.

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, it's going to be ethic. It's going to

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Speaker 2: be an experience that I'll never forget and I'm just

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Speaker 2: keen to get in and learn and grow as much

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Speaker 2: as possible. Yeah, I can bring it back here.

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Speaker 3: How do you reckon they're going to go? Is the team?

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Speaker 1: I know that you haven't gone into camp yet, but

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Speaker 1: how do you reckon the team's looking.

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Speaker 2: Look, there's a strong, strong, talented bunch of girls there. Hey,

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Speaker 2: so they're all athletes and in their own right, and

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Speaker 2: football is so I reckon they'll be able to get

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Speaker 2: the job done.

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Speaker 3: Shari, it is lovely to speak to you this morning.

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Speaker 1: Can we try and catch up with you once the

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Speaker 1: game's done and dusted as well and find out how

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Speaker 1: it all went?

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Speaker 2: Yeah? Too easy?

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Speaker 3: Oh good on you.

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Speaker 1: Congratulations again and thanks so much for having a chat

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Speaker 1: with us this morning. I just think this is such

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Speaker 1: a good news story.

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Speaker 2: Awesome. Thank you so much for having me.

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Speaker 3: Thank you. Thanks, Shari,