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Speaker 1: As you know if you listen to the show regularly,

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Speaker 1: I love hearing about kids doing some great stuff around

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Speaker 1: the Northern Territory. And we've got a number of Northern

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Speaker 1: Territory athletes heading into state over the next few weeks

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Speaker 1: for both the Australian School Track and Field Championships in

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Speaker 1: Tasmania and the Australian All Schools Championships in Perth. Now

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Speaker 1: joining me on the line is Roger Chin, the man

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Speaker 1: who's coaching and mentoring a number of these awesome young athletes.

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Speaker 2: Good morning to you, Roger, Good.

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Speaker 3: Morning Cadie, and good morning to your listener.

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Speaker 2: Lovely to have you on the show.

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Speaker 1: Now, Roger, we've got two groups going away, some younger

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Speaker 1: athletes off to Tasmania and some of the older students

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Speaker 1: off to Perth. Tell our listeners what kind of preparation

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Speaker 1: goes into heading into state for a national event or

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Speaker 1: national events like this.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, Katie, thank you very much for asha that. The

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Speaker 3: teams that are going away are the junior school sports

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Speaker 3: teams from ten to twelve. They're heading to Tasmania and

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Speaker 3: as you mentioned, the All Schools in Perth verd end

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Speaker 3: to eighteen for the All Schools Now, the preparation for

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Speaker 3: these young athletes is a bit difficult because of the

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Speaker 3: fact that our championships finished in September, and for all

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Speaker 3: the Southern States, their sports period starts usually around October

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Speaker 3: and head on in, so they're actually at their peak

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Speaker 3: by the time these championships come through. So our young

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Speaker 3: athletes are a little bit behind the ball. So continuing

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Speaker 3: with the programs for them, especially when they start doing

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Speaker 3: all the other sports AFL, rugby, basketball, netball, damn swimming,

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Speaker 3: keeping them interested and encouraged is a high priority. So

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Speaker 3: the training we pretty much started back as basic and

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Speaker 3: then we stepped up the training level so by the

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Speaker 3: time they leave the first loot go to Tasmania next week,

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Speaker 3: hopefully they're prepared and encouraged and looking forward to competing

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Speaker 3: in their specific events in Tasmania. And for the older ones,

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Speaker 3: they get an extra week of training to prepare for

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Speaker 3: the higher level competition in Perth.

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Speaker 1: And some of the athletes in other states, like they

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Speaker 1: literally compete every few weeks, whereas we here in the territory,

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Speaker 1: we just don't have that same frequency of competition.

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Speaker 2: Can that be a bit of a hurdle for the kids?

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Speaker 3: Oh? For sure, Katie, for sure. I can remember back

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Speaker 3: when I competed in high school in Queensland. Every week

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Speaker 3: was some sort of into school competition and we had

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Speaker 3: a team of twenty odds would go off to the

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Speaker 3: different schools around North Brisbane and then you had your

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Speaker 3: own competition, then your region and then your state championships.

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Speaker 3: Whereas here in the territory we don't have that sort

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Speaker 3: of competition at all. There's no interschool competitions other than

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Speaker 3: PAS or Darwin district competition just before the Anti Champs

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Speaker 3: and that's really not an I suppose development way forward

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Speaker 3: for the Anti. Unfortunately, however, what has been very strong

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Speaker 3: is within the clubs that do have athletes regularly don't

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Speaker 3: try and have weekly competitions within themselves and they change

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Speaker 3: around the different events, so every week there's a different

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Speaker 3: event available to them, and Athletics Northern Territory try and

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Speaker 3: put on a track meet so that the athletes still

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Speaker 3: have some sort of competitive event to attend to. And

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Speaker 3: this year, I believe if I listened to the CEO,

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Speaker 3: we've had a few more track meets than normal.

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Speaker 1: Now tell me there's you know, I know that the

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Speaker 1: kids have been training hard.

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Speaker 2: I witness it myself.

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Speaker 1: My daughter Bronte is obviously heading off to that Tasmania event.

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Speaker 1: How many kids have you been training, Roger, and how

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Speaker 1: are they all going at this point?

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Speaker 3: Well, I've only got a number of the athletes here

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Speaker 3: all of them attending those competitions. I also encourage anyone

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Speaker 3: had their friends there. They encourage one another to go through,

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Speaker 3: So I'll use your daughter Bronte as an example. When

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Speaker 3: she's there, they all, I suppose, bounce off one another

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Speaker 3: And also a couple of them are being mentored as coaches,

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Speaker 3: so all the athletes that I coach have an input

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Speaker 3: I've seen the development in the fact that they're having fun,

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Speaker 2: It is wonderful to see it.

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Speaker 1: It is wonderful to see those those athletes that are

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Speaker 1: us Roger, there's you know, like we've touched on, there's

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Speaker 1: quite a few kids going across to compete. What kind

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Speaker 2: Now?

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Speaker 3: I think they're excited and nervous about going away. The

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Speaker 3: events range from the one hundred meter sprints so one hundred,

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Speaker 3: then with a throwing events it will be for the

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Speaker 3: the juniors will be high jump and long jump, and

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Speaker 3: for the seniors will be high jump, long jump and

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Speaker 3: triple jump. But for the interstate teams that they also

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Speaker 3: have some of them have pole volt Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Right, interesting, the pole vault.

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Speaker 1: It always seems like a difficult one to me, or

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Speaker 1: it always looks like it's difficult, Roger.

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Speaker 3: It is a difficult event for both the coaches and

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Speaker 3: the officials, and for the athletes. A lot of them

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Speaker 3: give it a good crack. And as I say, for

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Speaker 3: the junior ones, they're from memory sixteen and eighteen year

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Speaker 3: our schools. Right. I might be corrected by my wife

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Speaker 3: on that, however, I'll say that it is an interesting event,

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Speaker 3: and it takes a lot of coordination, and I believe

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Speaker 3: would be really good at it, but unfortunately we don't

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Speaker 3: do it, because you need the coaches. You need to

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Speaker 3: it takes to coach them is quite specific that it

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Speaker 3: has to be individual coaching. You can't have it as

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Speaker 2: Yeah, or Roger.

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Speaker 1: So they are getting ready to head away, some of

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Speaker 1: Anyone we need to keep an eye out for. It.

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Speaker 2: Sounds like it's going to be pretty exciting stuff for

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Speaker 3: Keep an eye out for everyone, because I know they'll

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Speaker 3: give you the territory proud, their parents, proud, but hopefully

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Speaker 3: and more importantly themselves. Yeah, and I think you've heard

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Speaker 3: they've already won because they're going to defeat the biggest fear,

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Speaker 3: and that's going out there to compete. And if they

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Speaker 3: do a PB, they have one in my opinion, because

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Speaker 3: they've beaten the hardest person they'll ever have to be

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Speaker 3: is themselves. Every time you get a PB, you've beaten yourself.

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Speaker 2: Spot on.

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Speaker 1: And Roger, I know the kids, well, the athletes were

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Speaker 1: very pumped that you were coming on the radio this morning.

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Speaker 1: We will make sure that we share the audio so

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Speaker 1: that they can go back and have a listen, and

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Speaker 1: we'll pop a photo up there of some of those

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Speaker 1: athletes that are heading away. But Roger chin lovely to

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Speaker 1: talk to you this morning, Thank you very much for

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Speaker 1: your time.

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Speaker 3: Thank you Katie. Just before we go, I just want

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Speaker 3: to make mention that the kids that are going away

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Speaker 3: that not just able bodies, there are some power athletes

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Speaker 3: going away as well, so it's all inclusive and we

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Speaker 3: encourage everyone to support our athletes and be proud of

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Speaker 3: the achievements that they get, regardless of what patis, be

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Speaker 3: proud of them.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, you're spot on and wonderful that there are able

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Speaker 1: bodied and also those para athletes heading off interstate and

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Speaker 1: it is a massive achievement for all of those young people.

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Speaker 1: Roger Chin, thank you so much for time this morning.

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Speaker 3: Thank you again, Katy for giving the time, and thank

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Speaker 3: you to your listening.

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Speaker 2: Thank you