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Speaker 1: Was talking just a moment ago about the hockey that

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Speaker 1: is about to get under way. Well, it's getting underway

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Speaker 1: next month. It sounds like it's going to be wonderful.

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Speaker 1: It's the Under fifteen National Hockey Championships. They're happening right

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Speaker 1: here in the Northern Territory.

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Speaker 2: Now joining me on the line to tell us a

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Speaker 2: little bit.

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Speaker 1: More about it is the operations manager from hockey here

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Speaker 1: in the Territory, Jody.

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Speaker 2: Let me just make sure I've got you through the desk.

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Speaker 2: Good morning, Jody, Hello, good morning. Great to have you

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Speaker 2: on the show.

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Speaker 1: Jody, tell us a little bit more about the under

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Speaker 1: fifteen National Championships.

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Speaker 2: When are they happening?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, thanks for having us. We have our national champ

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Speaker 3: coppening from the fifteenth to the twenty first of April.

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Speaker 3: It's really exciting for us. It's our first time since

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Speaker 3: twenty fifteen where we hosted the under thirteens and ahl

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Speaker 3: men's National Championships. So it's been a long time coming

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Speaker 3: and it's really really exciting for our kids to be

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Speaker 3: able to play against some of the best other states

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Speaker 3: and territories in our hometown. We've got seventeen teams come

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Speaker 3: in to compete here.

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Speaker 2: Wow, I reckon, this sounds wonderful.

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Speaker 1: I love seeing the kids sport happening here in the territory,

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Speaker 1: particularly when you've got students kids coming from right around Australia.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly right, it's really exciting. I mean, they're the

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Speaker 3: best of the best of fifteen year olds. So we'll

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Speaker 3: have from day one on the Saturday, we'll have two matches.

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Speaker 3: Each team will play two matches a day from the

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Speaker 3: Saturday and Sunday, and then we'll play off all the

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Speaker 3: way down to the Friday when we go for our

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Speaker 3: Grand Final. It's a free event, so anyone can come

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Speaker 3: and attend and have a look at hockey and what

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Speaker 3: it's all about. Exciting things. We start our season sort

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Speaker 3: of the weekend after, so they're going to be pumped

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Speaker 3: after watching all of the best of the best come

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Speaker 3: and play on our hometown.

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Speaker 2: How wonderful, Jodie.

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Speaker 1: I am very often at athletics just next door and

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Speaker 1: quite often running around Marara and see just how many

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Speaker 1: people are heading into hockey. It's clearly a very popular

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Speaker 1: sport in the Northern Territory and I'm assuming that we'll

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Speaker 1: have a fantastic territory team to compete in the Under

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Speaker 1: fifteen Championships.

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Speaker 3: Absolutely, so we've got two teams. We've got a full

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Speaker 3: girls team and a full boys team competing. And luckily

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Speaker 3: we've pushed for the draw so that we can have

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Speaker 3: our home kids playing a little bit later. So maybe

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Speaker 3: I've can finish work and come and watch our kids play,

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Speaker 3: especially on the Saturday and the Sunday when it's when

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Speaker 3: you know people aren't working, will be good to get

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Speaker 3: as many people down to support our local kids.

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Speaker 1: How many people are you expecting to watch to come along? Firstly,

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Speaker 1: I suppose as part of the teams and they're associated

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Speaker 1: managers and people traveling with them, and then sort of

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Speaker 1: you know, just part of this carnival.

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Speaker 3: Yes, massive, we should have over two thousand people around

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Speaker 3: and about, so we'll have you know, most teams have

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Speaker 3: about seventeen players, and then they've also got managers and

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Speaker 3: coaches and family come so it's a big event for

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Speaker 3: the territory. And obviously then they're all saying around nice

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Speaker 3: and close to Maura and we've got rest to days

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Speaker 3: where they'll be out and about visiting different things from

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Speaker 3: the territory.

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Speaker 1: How awesome that's like, it's actually wonderful for the Northern

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Speaker 1: Territory to have two thousand people visiting for a carnival,

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Speaker 1: for a sports carnival.

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Speaker 2: I love talking about, you.

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Speaker 1: Know, the great things that junior sport does in so

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Speaker 1: many ways, but even when you look at it from

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Speaker 1: that economic perspective and what it's doing for the Northern Territory,

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Speaker 1: it's really great.

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Speaker 3: Exactly right, Yeah, that's right, it's really exciting. We've got

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Speaker 3: we've got our captain's call on the day before the

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Speaker 3: little crocodiles to come and take some photos.

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Speaker 2: With Oh cool, how awesome?

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Speaker 1: Well, I reckon it sounds like it's going to be wonderful.

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Speaker 1: I'll probably catch a bit of the action, I reckon,

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Speaker 1: because I'm always.

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Speaker 2: There at Marara.

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Speaker 1: Just for anybody listening who is maybe keen to find

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Speaker 1: our territorians.

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Speaker 2: Where can they head to?

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Speaker 1: Is there an open sort of hockey page or somewhere

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Speaker 3: Yeah, So once the drawers finalise, we'll post it up

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Speaker 3: on our website, which is Hockey NT and but we'll

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Speaker 3: also it will also be on the Hockey Australia website

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Speaker 3: as well as our social media, so we'll try and

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Speaker 3: keep everyone up to date with what's happening. The other

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Speaker 3: one that they're doing as well is all of the

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Speaker 3: games live streams. That's another another good opportunity there to

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Speaker 3: tap in if you can't make it down.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and we.

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Speaker 1: Have got like, we've actually got some awesome hockey players

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Speaker 1: that have come from the Northern Territory as well, Olympians

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Speaker 1: and everything.

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Speaker 3: Correct. Well, it's really big for us as well because

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Speaker 3: Jeremy Haywood was named captain for the fih Pro League

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Speaker 3: series in Hobart not that long ago, and he obviously

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Speaker 3: comes from a club here in Darwin and it's really

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Speaker 3: exciting for us to have a captain as part of

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Speaker 3: the Australian team. So it's quite inspiring obviously for our

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Speaker 3: kids that are playing here locally.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it really is.

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Speaker 1: You know. I always think it's so important to you know,

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Speaker 1: to be able to see those others that have done

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Speaker 1: really well before you, so you've got something to look

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Speaker 3: Correct.

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Speaker 1: Absolutely, Jody, lovely to talk to you this morning. Thanks

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Speaker 1: so much for coming on and telling us a little

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Speaker 1: bit more about the nationals happening, and also you know,

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Speaker 1: for people to hear about the wonderful kids that we've

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Speaker 1: got in the territory that are doing some great stuff.

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Speaker 1: So I think it's really awesome to hear from you today.

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Speaker 3: Excellent. Thanks for having us look forward to seeing here

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Speaker 3: from the fifteenth, twenty first of a book here at

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Speaker 3: our hockey centimes.

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Speaker 2: It sounds good.

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Speaker 1: We might even try and catch up with you again

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Speaker 1: before then, Jody, thank.

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Speaker 2: You so much for your time. Thank you