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Speaker 1: Look, there's always plenty going on around the Northern Territory

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Speaker 1: and a bit of a change of pace to one

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Speaker 1: of my favorite topics, as I think you all know,

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Speaker 1: and that is sport. Now, I'm Cheryl Schmode who's been

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Speaker 1: a field umpire spanning six hundred and fifty games in

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Speaker 1: the NFL. She started running an umpiring program as I understand,

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Speaker 1: at teaching young girls the craft. And she joins me

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Speaker 1: on the line, get.

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Speaker 2: A Cheryl, Hey, Katie, Hey you going?

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Speaker 1: I'm really good? How are you? Yeah?

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Speaker 2: Pretty good? Thanks?

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Speaker 1: Six one hundred and fifty games you umpire? That is

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Speaker 1: no means eat.

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Speaker 2: Just a few?

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Speaker 1: How many years has that spanned across? Oh?

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Speaker 2: I started when I was fourteen, but I had about

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Speaker 2: a fifteen year break because of circumstances in life. So yeah,

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Speaker 2: but yeah, fourteen years old, I quit ballet dancing to

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Speaker 2: become a football umplayer.

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Speaker 1: Ah, Cheryl, you know I love that. That is awesome.

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Speaker 1: What sparked the idea for you to run umpiring programs?

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Speaker 2: Then it came from the AFL and that they approached

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Speaker 2: AFL and T an AFL and T approached me to

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Speaker 2: see if I wanted to coordinate it, and I jumped

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Speaker 2: out of the chance. It's been my dream for so

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Speaker 2: long and just to watch other females step into the craft.

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Speaker 1: So how important is it do you think to teach

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Speaker 1: those skills to young females.

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Speaker 2: I think it helps them to realize that they can

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Speaker 2: do it. If you're take them away from well a

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Speaker 2: male dominated sport, they can see that they're just as

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Speaker 2: capable as the men. So you can do the basics.

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Speaker 2: Then they get the confidence. And we all had a

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Speaker 2: laugh together of the last four weeks and it has

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Speaker 2: been a lot of fun.

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Speaker 1: So tell me how many people have taken part in

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Speaker 1: the program?

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Speaker 2: I had at one night there was about sixteen. There

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Speaker 2: were seventeen there all up at one night. There's been

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Speaker 2: so many different ones that have registered but didn't come

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Speaker 2: every night. But yeah, yeah, and how important is it?

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Speaker 1: How important do you reckon it is? Cheryl as well?

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Speaker 1: You know, for them to sort of do the program

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Speaker 1: and I guess get some helpful tips from somebody like

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Speaker 1: yourself who has been field umpiring for such a long

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Speaker 2: I think it helps them go into the next step.

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Speaker 2: If they do decide to go, they'll know someone already

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Speaker 2: and they come and see have a regular face and

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Speaker 2: someone that they know, because it can be quite daunting

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Speaker 2: turning out to training and not knowing anyone, especially in

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Speaker 2: the male dominated area. And on Tuesday night we had

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Speaker 2: other umpires that turn other female umpires come along and

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Speaker 2: it was a great way for them to meet them.

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Speaker 2: And so even one of the mums that's been part

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Speaker 2: of the program, she's now even considering boundary impiring.

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Speaker 1: Oh good honor. And the thing that I reckon truly

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Speaker 1: important too, is that it's you know, it is sort

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Speaker 1: of about not just that mentoring, but catching up with

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Speaker 1: like minded people. And then if you do have a

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Speaker 1: bit of an experience that you're like, oh is that

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Speaker 1: normal while you are umpiring, you then have those contacts

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Speaker 1: to be able to go and have a bit of

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Speaker 1: chat to each other and sort of feel a bit

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Speaker 1: better about some of those situations it might have been

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Speaker 1: a bit daunting.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, because I've been through a few over the so

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Speaker 2: many years of umpiring, So you just know that that

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Speaker 2: becomes part of the program.

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Speaker 1: Now, tell me what are some of the benefits of

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Speaker 1: becoming a field unpilot. What do you absolutely love about it?

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Speaker 2: For me, it's built my confidence up. It's also taught

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Speaker 2: me leadership, my fitness and even how I get alongside people. Now,

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Speaker 2: I do youth work as a job. So for me,

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Speaker 2: just to watch a young person develop and become more

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Speaker 2: confident in themselves, that's what happens in field. I'mpering for

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Speaker 2: me as I watch them.

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Speaker 1: That's so good. I love that. Now, have you got

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Speaker 1: the capacity or what?

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Speaker 2: Like?

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Speaker 1: Where's it go from here? Cheryl? Are you going to

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Speaker 1: continue to sort of do this program? Obviously it's something

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Speaker 1: that the afl ents put on, but is it something

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Speaker 1: that you reckon We'll see a bit more of.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, definitely. And I'm the junior field coach. So for

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Speaker 2: the girls that have been part of the program to

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Speaker 2: have me as their coach, it is a bonus for them.

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Speaker 1: Now if people are listening this morning, like if there

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Speaker 1: are some younger females or some females listening and they're thinking,

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Speaker 1: I'd love to do that, is there a way that

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Speaker 1: they can get in contact or should they go through AFLNT.

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Speaker 2: Go on the afln T website and then they'll tell

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Speaker 2: you when training is Like the junior training for the

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Speaker 2: field on pirings on Tuesdays at five o'clock.

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Speaker 1: Cheryl, are you pumped about the season getting underway very soon.

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Speaker 2: Well it's come around rather quickly, but yes, I am

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Speaker 2: looking forward to it.

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Speaker 1: Just like your whole week and your whole weekend. Just

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Speaker 1: you know, end up full of umpiring.

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Speaker 2: Ah, yes, because when you're coaching as well as I'm

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Speaker 2: piring yourself, you don't see I don't get to see Pete,

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Speaker 2: my partner at all. No, I think he gets happy

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Speaker 2: about that, but I think he loves it.

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Speaker 1: Oh, good on you now, Cheryl. Today. Every week obviously

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Speaker 1: we name our territory of the week, and I would

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Speaker 1: like you to be our territory and of the week

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Speaker 1: this week. Thanks to tempsone, of course, you can get

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Speaker 1: cleaner air with ha Tachi frostwashed self cleaning air conditioners.

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Speaker 1: It's one hundred dollars. We'll give that to you as

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Speaker 1: a voucher. But you know, I know that you do

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Speaker 1: a lot in the community, and I know that you

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Speaker 1: do a lot when it comes to umpiring in the

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Speaker 1: Northern Territory, and I just think it's wonderful the way

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Speaker 1: that you mentor some of our younger females. So you

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Speaker 1: are our territori and of the week this week. I

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Speaker 1: know you're probably half embarrassed, but you deserve it and

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Speaker 1: you know you do.

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Speaker 2: Thank you, Good on you.

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Speaker 1: Cheryl, thank you so much for having a chat with

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Speaker 1: us this morning, and good on you for the work

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Speaker 1: that you're doing. And a big thank you to Cheryl

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Speaker 1: Schmode there who's been field umpiring well six hundred and

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Speaker 1: fifty games. That is incredible, isn't it. And I think

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Speaker 1: she's a very worthy Territorian of the Week, all thanks

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Speaker 1: to temper Zone