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Darwin’s Macey Sheridan has brought home a number of gold medals from the National Swimming championships sending records tumbling · 360 with Katie Woolf

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  Speaker 1: If you're listening to the show last week, you would
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  Speaker 1: have heard me talking about footy. You would have heard
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  Speaker 1: me talking about the hockey nationals that were happening here
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  Speaker 1: in Darwin. You would have heard me speaking about the
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  Speaker 1: netball nationals that were happening in Darwin. But you would
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  Speaker 1: have definitely heard me speaking about a young Territorian who
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  Speaker 1: was away at the Australian Age Swimming Championships who absolutely
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  Speaker 1: smashed it, did a phenomenal job while she was interstate.
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  Speaker 1: And joining me in the studio right now is that
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  Speaker 1: young Territorian. Her name is Macy Sheridan. Good morning to you, Mazie,
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  Speaker 1: and a very good morning to coach Tim Fu. Good
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  Speaker 1: morning to you. Now, you guys are from the Darwin
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  Speaker 1: buff Swimming Club, a phenomenal swimming club.
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  Speaker 2: I know because my kids are there as well.
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  Speaker 1: Now, Macy, I was keeping an eye on you while
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  Speaker 1: you're away for the Australian Age Swimming Championships and you
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  Speaker 1: performed unbelievably well.
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  Speaker 2: Now tell everybody how old are you at the moment.
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  Speaker 1: I'm thirteen, so swimming in the thirteen year's age group.
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  Speaker 1: Now you competed in eight events, didn't you. Now can
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  Speaker 1: you talk me through the eight events that you were
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  Speaker 1: in and how you went in all of those.
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  Speaker 3: So I did fifty three, one hundred free and two
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  Speaker 3: hundred three YEP. For the fifty one hundred, I got gold,
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  Speaker 3: and for backstroke I did the fifty hundred and two
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  Speaker 3: hundred and for all three of those I got gold,
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  Speaker 3: and then I did the two hundred, Am.
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  Speaker 1: You are a little legend. How are you feeling? Were
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  Speaker 1: you pretty excited? Yeah?
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  Speaker 3: I was pretty excited, mixed with nerves as well.
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  Speaker 2: I bet you were, because it's pretty luck.
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  Speaker 1: It is actually pretty daunting for any swimmer going away
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  Speaker 1: to the Nationals. But then when you line up for
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  Speaker 1: a final and you know they go through all the swimmers,
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  Speaker 1: everybody has to step forward as they call your name out,
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  Speaker 1: and you knowing that you were the fastest qualifier as
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  Speaker 1: well in some of those races.
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  Speaker 2: Was there much pressure on you.
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  Speaker 1: To sort of do well or did you just try
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  Speaker 1: to rely and take it all in your stride.
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  Speaker 3: I just try to relax because if I start thinking
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  Speaker 3: about pressure, then it'll all just become very overwhelming. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: So I just like remain calm for as long as
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  Speaker 3: they could.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely, And you did amazingly. I mean the fact that
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  Speaker 1: you've won, you won those medals, six national age titles for.
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  Speaker 2: A thirteen year old, it's incredible stuff.
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  Speaker 1: And you then, obviously with some of those times, you've
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  Speaker 1: not only broken Northern Territory records, but like for your
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  Speaker 1: fifty meters backstroke twenty nine fifty nine. Now, to those
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  Speaker 1: out there listening, that's bloody fast. For those who don't
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  Speaker 1: swim that aren't sure, that is incredibly fast and it
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  Speaker 1: means that well, it's the fifth fastest time by an
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  Speaker 1: Australian thirteen year old girl and the first territory and
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  Speaker 1: female ever to break the thirty second barrier.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's like, all feels pretty surreal. So I haven't
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  Speaker 3: come to terms that, oh, I've actually done that. So
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  Speaker 3: I just still trying to process all what's happened in
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  Speaker 3: the past few weeks.
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  Speaker 1: And you must feel good though, knowing that you've liked
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  Speaker 1: that you've done some really good times, because I know
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  Speaker 1: that that's something that we always talk about, is like
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  Speaker 1: breaking those pbs, just doing the best that you can do,
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  Speaker 1: your personal best.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, a few of those times I really wasn't expecting
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  Speaker 3: to get like I'd get a great PV in the
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  Speaker 3: heats and then the finals. I just blew myself away.
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  Speaker 3: So a few of those times I'd look up on
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  Speaker 3: the board and I'd be quite shocked.
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  Speaker 1: How awesome, Tim, What was it like for you? I mean,
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  Speaker 1: you had an incredible young squad going away for this event.
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  Speaker 1: How many swimmers did you have in the squad?
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  Speaker 4: We had seven go away altogether. There were three girls,
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  Speaker 4: four boys. Now, Macy did forget one of her events.
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  Speaker 4: She did forget to mention the fifty butterfly, which he
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  Speaker 4: did win golden as well, and that actually puts her
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  Speaker 4: as a third fastest thirteen year old female in history
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  Speaker 4: that time.
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  Speaker 2: Goodness me, third fastest ever.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's incredible.
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  Speaker 4: But as a team as a whole, top twenty ranked
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  Speaker 4: swimmers get points. So overall, with all the clubs that
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  Speaker 4: were in attendance, we finished fiftieth on point score. So
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  Speaker 4: to put a perception, it's some of the teams that
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  Speaker 4: were around us had somewhere oddard of twenty one swimmers,
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  Speaker 4: and we had Measley seven. So we had seven in
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  Speaker 4: the age and then we had two older swimmers in
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  Speaker 4: the open that round last week, so out of the
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  Speaker 4: nine we had four who made finals. We had four
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  Speaker 4: of them who finished in the top ten and certain
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  Speaker 4: events in their ages, and then we had seven of
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  Speaker 4: the nine who finished top twenty in certain events throughout
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  Speaker 4: their ages.
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  Speaker 2: It's awesome stuff.
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  Speaker 1: I just think it's wonderful because you know, it's one
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  Speaker 1: thing to just have one swimmer going away and performing
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  Speaker 1: incredibly well like Macy has done. But it's a whole
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  Speaker 1: other than to have an incredible squad and that real
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  Speaker 1: depth within the swimming club. At the moment, you must
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  Speaker 1: be feeling pretty good as the coach team.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's more now trying to build towards the next
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  Speaker 4: major competition. So we've got a bunch of kids who
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  Speaker 4: are looking at going away to the School Sports Championships
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  Speaker 4: in August, and then we've got four who have qualified,
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  Speaker 4: three have confirmed, one I'm still waiting on to go
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  Speaker 4: to the World Championship Trials in June. So Macy has
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  Speaker 4: put her hand up to go down to that one. Awesome,
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  Speaker 4: So she's going to try and go toe to toe
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  Speaker 4: with a one hundred backshow world record holder. So we'll
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  Speaker 4: see how that one goes.
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  Speaker 1: And what an incredible experience for you as well. You know,
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  Speaker 1: no matter what, it's just such a great thing to
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  Speaker 1: be able to travel away and to get to do
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  Speaker 1: that and to have that experience.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, mainly just like experience. As you said, I don't
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  Speaker 3: really mind what I get out of it, just being there.
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  Speaker 3: It's just a privilege in herself.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I bet oh.
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  Speaker 1: I tell you what you guys are. You've done awesomely
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  Speaker 1: and so humble as well.
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  Speaker 2: Macy.
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  Speaker 1: You know I like you, and you know I said
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  Speaker 1: this to your mum when I asked if you could
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  Speaker 1: come on. It's not I think it's really important to
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  Speaker 1: actually to make sure that we sing from the rooftops
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  Speaker 1: when our kids do well, when children around the Northern
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  Speaker 1: Territory are doing really well at sport or whatever you're
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  Speaker 1: doing well at, because it is an incredible thing to
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  Speaker 1: be able to do from the territory. Sometimes people think, oh, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: you know, it only happens if you live in Brisbane
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  Speaker 1: or if you live somewhere else. But we've got some
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  Speaker 1: wonderful young territorians Tim you get to interact with them
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  Speaker 1: every day.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, it is mate. What's next for the club?
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  Speaker 4: Look, we've got some things in the pipework. We're trying
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  Speaker 4: to build a new clubroom. We're just waiting for plans
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  Speaker 4: to be designed. We've also got some so we've actually
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  Speaker 4: got the Southport Olympic Swimming Club, their performance team are
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  Speaker 4: actually up and down this week doing a training camp
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  Speaker 4: out of prep next month. We've actually got Peter Bishop
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  Speaker 4: and his South Australian guys coming up, so the likes
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  Speaker 4: of Kyle Charmers and some of those big names coming
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  Speaker 4: up for a training camp. But for us as a club,
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  Speaker 4: the next it's just going to the next meet, So
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  Speaker 4: we're actually running our club short course meet at the
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  Speaker 4: beginning of next month and then it's just trying to
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  Speaker 4: get these four or three depends how many go off
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  Speaker 4: to the World Championship Trials and see what happens there,
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  Speaker 4: and then it's building onto the short course season, then
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  Speaker 4: into Queens Aunde State Championships in December and then Nationals
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  Speaker 4: come around April next year ends.
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  Speaker 1: And you know, for our listeners, I guess to get
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  Speaker 1: a bit of an understanding it does take a lot
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  Speaker 1: of training and a lot of effort for our young
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  Speaker 1: people to get to the point that Macy has reached.
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  Speaker 1: Like it's a lot of hard work for us whom
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  Speaker 1: are like Macy isn't Ash.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, so Macy's been doing successions a week in the
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  Speaker 4: pool since October yep or just before. She'll have to
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  Speaker 4: see now what we do pool wise, because she's also
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  Speaker 4: very good at athletics, and her athletics coach wants her
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  Speaker 4: back at.
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  Speaker 2: Some point, Roger, if you're listening, but he can.
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  Speaker 4: Have Bronte for now.
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  Speaker 2: So it is.
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  Speaker 4: And like most of our open goal and one of
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  Speaker 4: our distance swimmers there in the water nine times a week,
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  Speaker 4: got three two to three gym sessions a week, so
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  Speaker 4: some long hours that they have to spend putting the
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  Speaker 4: work in, but unfortunately that's the nature of the sport.
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  Speaker 2: Well and well and truly worth it.
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  Speaker 1: You know, when you get to go away and you
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  Speaker 1: line up and you swim really well and you do
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  Speaker 1: those pbs and in Macy's case, when you walk away
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  Speaker 1: with a swag of medals, it's worth the hard work,
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  Speaker 1: isn't it.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's just the feeling of like accomplishment and like
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  Speaker 3: all the train that's led up to that, you just
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  Speaker 3: feel like it's like worth something.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it really is.
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  Speaker 1: Well, good on you both, Thank you so much, and
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  Speaker 1: a big congratulations to all of the swimmers that went
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  Speaker 1: away for both the Australian Age and also the Open
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  Speaker 1: Australian Championships last week. Macy, biggest congratulations to you with
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  Speaker 1: all those medals. You've done incredibly well and I think
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  Speaker 1: the whole club, everybody around the Northern Territory should be
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  Speaker 1: really proud of your efforts, but also of the whole
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  Speaker 1: dar and buff Siming club.
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  Speaker 2: Great effort. Tim, thank you a problem. Good on you both.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks so much for your time this morning.