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Travis Few with 3 of Darwin's keen young swimmers who'll be competing Darwin's Swimming Club NT Championships this weekend · 360 with Katie Woolf

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  Speaker 1: I'm really excited because in the studio with me this morning,
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  Speaker 1: we know that the NT Swimming Championships are on this weekend,
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  Speaker 1: and I am joined in the studio by three very
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  Speaker 1: talented young swimmers and also their coach.
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  Speaker 2: I better not forgetting him, Tim, the coach at the
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  Speaker 2: Darwin Swimming Club.
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  Speaker 1: Tim Full, let me make sure I pronounce your name correctly.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning to you, Tim, How are you?
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  Speaker 3: I'm wonderful, Katie, great.
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  Speaker 2: To have you in the studio. And then of course
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  Speaker 2: I have got Samson. How are you? Samson? I'm going well,
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  Speaker 2: thank you, that's good. And then I've got Sianna how
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  Speaker 2: are you?
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  Speaker 4: Good things?
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  Speaker 2: And Tamson how are you? I'm good, thank you. It
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  Speaker 2: is wonderful to have you all in the studio now.
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  Speaker 1: Obviously great to have Tim in here to tell us
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  Speaker 1: exactly what's on on the weekend, but to have these
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  Speaker 1: three very talented young Darwin swimmers I think is absolutely fantastic.
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  Speaker 1: Tim firstly, tell us a little bit about the carnival
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  Speaker 1: on the weekend. The NT Championships will actually start ASAVO.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, it starts this afternoon, gates open four o'clock Arapool.
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  Speaker 3: It will run all the way through till Sunday, so
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  Speaker 3: there are seven sessions throughout the weekend. It's the territory
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  Speaker 3: state championship, so it's our largest meet of the season YEP.
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  Speaker 3: And it's one of the last opportunities for the local
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  Speaker 3: guys here to qualify for national championship events.
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  Speaker 1: And are we expecting kids or you know, young people
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  Speaker 1: from all around the Northern Territory to be here, any
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  Speaker 1: coming from interstate?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, We've got a couple kids come up from Geelong YEP,
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  Speaker 3: from Trinity over in Queensland and from Young So we've
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  Speaker 3: got three visiting clubs this year. And we've got swimmers
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  Speaker 3: from Catherine Alice Springs, a couple from Cannon Nara who
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  Speaker 3: are linked with Catherine Club who are all coming. So
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  Speaker 3: I think there's about one hundred and sixty swimmers all
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  Speaker 3: together for the weekend.
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  Speaker 2: Wonderful stuff. I always think it's fantastic. It's a huge weekend.
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  Speaker 1: I know it's a huge weekend for you guys who
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  Speaker 1: are swimming, particularly if you asked all waiting to qualify
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  Speaker 1: for one of those national events.
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  Speaker 2: Samson, you are you're a freestyler and also a medley.
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  Speaker 1: Or I am swimmer? What are what should we be
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  Speaker 1: looking out for for you for this weekend? Any qualifying
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  Speaker 1: times that you need to do for the Nationals?
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  Speaker 4: Well, I am actually looking for a qualifying time for
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  Speaker 4: the one hundred meters breaststroke on Sunday. I am looking
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  Speaker 4: forward to it. Yeah, and it should be good. Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: it should be yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Now make have you traveled away for the nationals already?
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  Speaker 1: Or will this be your first first Nationals carnival? If
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  Speaker 1: you do get all those qualifying times that innate.
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  Speaker 4: This will be my first ever national events. But I
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  Speaker 4: have gone into state before. I have gone to Broom
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  Speaker 4: Kimberly Shorwcrosse Championships in Wa, SA Country champs in Essay
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  Speaker 4: and Queensland State Championships.
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  Speaker 2: Wonderful, wonderful stuff.
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  Speaker 1: Well, we'll be keeping an eye out this weekend and
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  Speaker 1: I hope you get all those qualifying times. Now, girls, Sianna,
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  Speaker 1: what are you? What are you focusing on this weekend?
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  Speaker 2: Mainly my one hundred best show fifty flight.
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  Speaker 1: And you've already qualified, haven't you for the Nationals? And
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  Speaker 1: have you also qualified for the World Championship trials as well?
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  Speaker 4: Yes?
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  Speaker 2: Wow? So when are they on at the same time?
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  Speaker 1: Which is in May, and you must be pretty excited
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  Speaker 1: to you know, to get to that to that level
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  Speaker 1: and to then you know, potentially be racing against these
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  Speaker 1: people that are heading off to.
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  Speaker 2: All sorts of different meats around the nation and the
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  Speaker 2: around the world. It's very exciting.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it will be. And now terms and what about you?
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  Speaker 1: Are you in the same boat as well? Have you
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  Speaker 1: qualified for both of those ones?
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  Speaker 2: Not for not yet? Not yet? Are you hoping to
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  Speaker 2: this weekend?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: It must be exciting though for both of you to
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  Speaker 1: travel as well together as sisters and be able to
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  Speaker 1: you know, to travel around the nation, get to go
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  Speaker 1: to those different carnivals together, and to be.
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  Speaker 2: Doing what you really enjoy it is.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think it's wonderful for anyone out there listening
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  Speaker 1: this morning who doesn't know My daughter, definite will my
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  Speaker 1: daughter and son both Swimoth and darw and swimming Club.
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  Speaker 1: And one of the things that I love about the
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  Speaker 1: swim in Club is the fact that you kids that
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  Speaker 1: you're all you know, well you're not kids anymore seventeen,
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  Speaker 1: but that you actually coach those younger children as well.
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  Speaker 2: I think it's a really wonderful thing.
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  Speaker 1: For our younger kids to see you as role models
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  Speaker 1: and to see the way that you're there swimming and
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  Speaker 1: qualifying for such huge events, but then also coaching them
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  Speaker 1: throughout the afternoons. And I think that that's a really
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  Speaker 1: nice thing to do in something that's really wonderful, Tim, that.
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  Speaker 2: You do as the head coach.
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  Speaker 1: It's great to see so many swimmers each and every
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  Speaker 1: afternoon at the pool there in Parrap. You've got enormous
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  Speaker 1: numbers really when it comes to the darw And Swimming Club,
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  Speaker 1: don't you. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I think currently our membership base is sitting out two
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  Speaker 3: hundred and fifty odd members. Yeah, so that's swimmers parents,
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  Speaker 3: so swimmers from I think our youngest is maybe five
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  Speaker 3: or six, all the way up to have our oldest
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  Speaker 3: an idea, but we've got adults who in the water
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  Speaker 3: swimming alongside their own children, some of them or a Tim, did.
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  Speaker 2: Are you talking about me? You haven't got in any
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  Speaker 2: other squads yet? I don't think you would allow you to,
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  Speaker 2: I don't think.
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  Speaker 3: But we've got a range of different squads offered, all
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  Speaker 3: just based on ability and really the folks of what
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  Speaker 3: the kids are after, whether they're just after fitness or
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  Speaker 3: actually after trying to get some form of success in
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  Speaker 3: the sport.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Well, and what some people may not realize, and you
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  Speaker 1: probably won't want me to say on air, but you
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  Speaker 1: were also the Northern Territories Coach of the Year last year,
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  Speaker 1: and so I think it's great great to see that
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  Speaker 1: swimming's got that real focus. And that's why I wanted
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  Speaker 1: you all to come in today as well, because I
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  Speaker 1: think swimming is a fantastic sport, but I think it's
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  Speaker 1: also great to see our young people out there active,
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  Speaker 1: being great role models for the rest of the community
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  Speaker 1: as well. So this weekend should be a good weekend
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  Speaker 1: or a good afternoon the SAVO and then the.
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  Speaker 2: Rest of the days, I better make sure I actually
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  Speaker 2: turn up on time. Tim on that parent really good
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  Speaker 2: luck to all of you. Tim.
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  Speaker 1: Just a reminder for everybody if the public want to
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  Speaker 1: hit out and watch some of that action, some of
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  Speaker 1: the swimming actions and can they do.
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  Speaker 3: That, Yeah, they can either go down to the pool
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  Speaker 3: itself or that it's also going to be live stream
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  Speaker 3: through swim TV, So just google swim TV find the
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  Speaker 3: Anti Championships. I think it's a six dollars fee to
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  Speaker 3: register for the entire event, and that's everything's live stream.
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  Speaker 1: And really this is the Northern Territory's biggest event when
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  Speaker 1: it comes to swimming, isn't it. Yeah, yeah, now it
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  Speaker 1: should be wonderful. Great to have you all in the
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  Speaker 1: studio this morning and all the best.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you, thank you,