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Speaker 1: I've told you a little bit about a teenage swimmer

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Speaker 1: who made history At the Northern Territories Sports Awards on

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Speaker 1: Saturday night, fifteen year old Macy Sheridan was crowned the

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Speaker 1: Northern Territory Sportsperson of the Year, becoming the youngest recipient

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Speaker 1: of the award. Now. Macy was named the Northern Territories

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Speaker 1: Junior Sportsperson of the Year last year and has been

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Speaker 1: selected for Swimming Australia's Flippers squad. She's a future contender

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Speaker 1: for the Australian swimming team. Now. In Swimming Australia's season

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Speaker 1: rankings for fourteen year old girls, Macy was actually ranked

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Speaker 1: number one in Australia in the fifty and one hundred

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Speaker 1: meters freestyle, the fifty the one hundred and two hundred

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Speaker 1: meters backstroke. She won all of those events at the

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Speaker 1: National Age Championships. Now, her times in the fifty and

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Speaker 1: one hundred backstroke have ranked her in Swimming Australia's all

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Speaker 1: time top ten for girls age fourteen in the country.

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Speaker 1: Now I don't mean just in the last year, I

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Speaker 1: mean all time, So she's on that list with people

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Speaker 1: like Kaylee McEwan and Emily Seabomb. Now Macy joins me

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Speaker 1: in the studio right now. Good morning to you, Macy.

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Speaker 1: It's lovely to have you in the studio.

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Speaker 2: Now.

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Speaker 1: I know that you're a very humble person and you're

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Speaker 1: not gonna want to be talking too much about your achievements.

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Speaker 1: But how you're feeling after being named the NT sports

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Speaker 1: Person of the Year on the weekend.

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Speaker 2: It's it is a little surreal, like it hasn't fully

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Speaker 2: set in yet, But honestly, I'm just really honored because

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Speaker 2: this is a prestigious award for the NT, It's like

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Speaker 2: one of the main ones. But yeah, it's it's such

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Speaker 2: an honor.

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Speaker 1: And first time that a person your age has, as

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Speaker 1: far as anybody can remember, ever been recognized as a

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Speaker 1: Northern Territory Sports Person of the Year.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that it's such a shock, to be honest, going

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Speaker 2: into that, I wasn't really expecting to win. Like just

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Speaker 2: getting to go to the event is an experience in itself,

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Speaker 2: but being able to win, it's, as I said, it's

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Speaker 2: an honor, and yeah, it was really surprised.

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Speaker 1: Now, I obviously talked through some of your achievements over

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Speaker 1: the past twelve months. Tell me a little bit about

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Speaker 1: some of the carnivals you've been to and how you've

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Speaker 1: gone at those different events.

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Speaker 2: So some of the main ones was the twenty twenty

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Speaker 2: four AS Championships or the Nationals. There I was able

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Speaker 2: to win five gold medals and then along with that

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Speaker 2: came the national titles, which was really amazing. I was

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Speaker 2: proud to achieve that. And then also one of the

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Speaker 2: other main competitions was the Australian Country Championships which is

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Speaker 2: always a really great meet because we get people from

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Speaker 2: all over Australia coming up to Darwin and like it's

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Speaker 2: the atmosphere is amazing. There I was able to achieve

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Speaker 2: I think it was twelve gold medals and a few

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Speaker 2: records on the side. But yeah, those are some of

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Speaker 2: the main ones. And then I'm coming up. I've got Nationals,

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Speaker 2: which is really exciting.

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Speaker 1: So how far away the Nationals? When are they on?

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Speaker 2: So their next month, so they're coming up in a

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Speaker 2: get to race at that level again.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it'll be fantastic. Now. May see for our listeners

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Speaker 1: and look, some of them might not know a huge

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Speaker 1: just how fast you are when you tell us your times,

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Speaker 1: But talk me through some of your times, like for

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Speaker 1: the fifty and one hundred freestyle first.

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Speaker 2: So my fifty freestyle time is a twenty five, yeah,

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Speaker 2: and then my one hundred freestyle time is a fifty seven.

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Speaker 1: That is some very very fasting. Particularly you know when

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Speaker 1: people consider that you're fifteen years old. Tell me then

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Speaker 1: about your backstroke times, because that's your other preferred stroke,

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yes, backstroke time is a twenty I have gone

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Speaker 1: Amazing. Now, in terms of your goals for this year,

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Speaker 1: I know that any athlete that in any sport really

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Speaker 2: So with my main events is the one hundred backstroke,

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Speaker 2: So this year, as I said, I've got Nationals coming up,

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Speaker 2: So honestly, you just go there, try my best, hopefully

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Speaker 2: sometime hopefully in the near future, I make a junior

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Speaker 1: Now, sometimes when you do really well at sport, or

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Speaker 1: I'm a bit jealous of that, or they feel a

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Speaker 2: So my training schedule week to week, it gets a

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Speaker 2: little busy. So I train in the pool six times

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Speaker 1: Yeah, so that's early. And I know Mum does lots

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Speaker 1: Sometimes, Now, how do you juggle that training as well

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it does get quite complicated at times, just because,

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Speaker 1: You just got to try and work your way around it.

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Speaker 1: I've no doubt that they are understanding of the amount

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Speaker 1: I know that you've been training with your coach Tim

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Speaker 2: Yeah? There really are, like going, we recently just finished

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Speaker 2: much rather stay in bed. But just thinking about getting

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Speaker 2: the preparation that I can to do this race of

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Speaker 2: the best of my abilities is something that I have

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Speaker 2: confidence in, yep, and like that really helps me. So

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Speaker 2: that's the only reason I'm really getting up well.

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Speaker 1: And you know it's going to help you, right, like

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Speaker 1: you said, when you arrive then at those carnivals, you

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Speaker 1: know that all that training is worth it when you

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Speaker 1: smash your times and you do so well now long term,

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Speaker 1: And I know that this is a tough question to

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Speaker 1: get asked when you are a teenager, But like, what

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Speaker 1: do you want to achieve long term?

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Speaker 2: So long term obviously the big goal is the Olympics,

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Speaker 2: like it's been a dream of mine for quite some time.

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Speaker 2: Yeap either twenty twenty eight in la or twenty thirty

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Speaker 2: getting there is it's pretty much a lifetime goal.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, good on you. Congratulations of being named the NT

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Speaker 1: sports Person of the Year. You know, I've known you

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Speaker 1: number of years. I see the level of effort that

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Speaker 1: think it's so wonderful and so well deserved for you

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Speaker 1: to be recognized in this way. You should be proud

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Speaker 1: hard to you know, to do that because you are

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Speaker 1: a very humble person, But you should be really proud

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Speaker 1: of your achievements. Are big congratulations and all the best.

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Speaker 1: The whole of the Northern Territory would love to see

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Speaker 1: you smash those goals.

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Speaker 2: Thank you, Thanks for having me, no.

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Speaker 1: Worries at all. Good on you, congratulations and we'll talk

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