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Local swimmers Taylia and Sam are hoping for a few pbs during the NT Swimming Championships after quite intense training · 360 with Katie Woolf

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  Speaker 1: I think everybody who listens to the show knows that
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  Speaker 1: I love hearing about young people that are doing great
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  Speaker 1: stuff in the community. And this weekend, well it actually
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  Speaker 1: kicks off the SAVO is the NT Swimming Championships.
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  Speaker 2: There are going to be fourteen.
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  Speaker 1: Clubs competing, one hundred and eighty three athletes in total,
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  Speaker 1: and eight of them are from the Darwin Swimming Club.
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  Speaker 2: They're ranging from.
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  Speaker 1: Six years old right up to forty years old, is
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  Speaker 1: what I'm told. Now, I've got two of these wonderful
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  Speaker 1: young athletes in the studio with me this morning. I
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  Speaker 1: have got fifteen year old Taylia Sheridan. Good morning to you. Hi,
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  Speaker 1: great to have you in the studio. And I've also
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  Speaker 1: got thirteen year old sam Rina. Good morning Samy.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, really good.
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  Speaker 1: It is great to have you both in the studio.
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  Speaker 1: It's a pretty exciting time. Four days of swimming. You
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  Speaker 1: guys pumped?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm really excited.
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  Speaker 2: Awesome. What about you, Sam?
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  Speaker 4: I can't wait.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's got and Darwin's got a massive team. Don't
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  Speaker 1: they like? How many members are what we're expecting? Is
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  Speaker 1: it eighty?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah?
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  Speaker 3: I think you're eighty people swimming in this meet it's wonderful.
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  Speaker 1: It is wonderful to see so many young people taking part. Now, Taylia,
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  Speaker 1: you coach the young kids as well.
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  Speaker 2: You coach my little boy sometimes. Do you like coaching?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I really enjoy creaching. It's honestly, I really like
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  Speaker 3: it. It's like being around those little kids and just sharing
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  Speaker 3: some of my experience with them.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I reckon. It's a really great thing to do.
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  Speaker 1: And it's one of the things that I love about
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  Speaker 1: the Darwin Swimming Club is that the older swimmers, the
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  Speaker 1: more experienced swimmers, do actually coach the young ones and
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  Speaker 1: mentor them and help them along as they're sort of
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  Speaker 1: getting into to their swimming journey. Now you two, you're
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  Speaker 1: both competing quite different sorts of races. I know that well, Taylia,
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  Speaker 1: you're more the short distance, the sprints and the backstrokes,
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  Speaker 1: So the fifty and the one hundred backstroker. Your main
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  Speaker 1: areas or your main events? How are you feeling for
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  Speaker 1: this weekend?
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  Speaker 3: Excited? I'm really hoping to get some PBS this weekend.
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  Speaker 3: My backshirt lately it's been a bit questionable, but I'm
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  Speaker 3: really hoping this we can we can get some pps
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  Speaker 3: and stuff.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, good stuff. Now, how often do you train?
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  Speaker 3: I train every single afternoon and Saturday mornings.
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  Speaker 2: Oh so quite a bit. Yeah, quite a bit of training.
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  Speaker 1: And how does the NT Championships sort of differ for
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  Speaker 1: you as a carnival in terms of trying to be.
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  Speaker 2: Able to get a pep?
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  Speaker 4: Yep?
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  Speaker 2: A bit more competition, I'm assuming.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, so obviously we have heats and finals, and obviously
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  Speaker 3: the main goals to get into finals and then hopefully
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  Speaker 3: from there maybe get a medal or two and then
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  Speaker 3: like just again getting PEPs and stuff.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, well in a fifty as well, it's like if
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  Speaker 1: you get if you can get a really good start
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  Speaker 1: and finish hard, you should be able to.
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  Speaker 2: Get one, shouldn't you. Yeah, so hopefully.
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  Speaker 1: Now Sam, what about for you mate, you're the longer distance,
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  Speaker 1: so the eight hundred and the fifteen hundred meter freestyle.
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  Speaker 1: Lots of people will be hearing that and thinking, goodness,
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  Speaker 1: may I can't even imagine swimming that far.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's really it's quite challenging. You're doing it and
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  Speaker 4: it's just you have to finish. Yeah, that's pretty tiring.
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  Speaker 1: Now you are competing as well, or you have previously
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  Speaker 1: at a national level in those events.
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  Speaker 4: Haven't you not Nationals? Yes, because I'm still too young,
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  Speaker 4: but have done interstate?
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  Speaker 2: Is that the aim to get to the nationals? Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: So have you got some specific times that you've got
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  Speaker 1: to try and do at this weekend's carnival?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah? So for the fifteen hundred, I need a drop.
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  Speaker 4: I think maybe twenty second sounds like a lot, but
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  Speaker 4: I've still got a year. Yeah, and it's quite small
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  Speaker 4: when you think about it.
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  Speaker 1: Fifteen that's right, especially for the fifteen hundred. How long
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  Speaker 1: does it take you to swim at fifteen hundred metes?
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  Speaker 4: I think my time now is eighteen minutes and thirty.
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  Speaker 2: You've better find out so you know what your pep
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  Speaker 2: has got to be.
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  Speaker 1: Now what I love about the fifteen hundred as well
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  Speaker 1: as you've even got to have people there ready to.
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  Speaker 2: Count your laps for you. Do you ever forget how
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  Speaker 2: many you've swum?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah? Well, I try to keep count just in case
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  Speaker 4: the person does get it wrong, because it does happen
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  Speaker 4: and people have swam like an extra hundred or.
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  Speaker 2: An all less. That's the last thing, that's the last
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  Speaker 2: thing they want to end.
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  Speaker 4: Up getting disqualified when you've swum that far.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, so you got to be cautious.
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  Speaker 1: Hey, you got to make sure you know exactly how
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  Speaker 1: it's how you're tracking in terms of those laps.
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  Speaker 2: Now, now you two.
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  Speaker 1: Must be excited about the weekend's carnival, as you've seed, Taylia,
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  Speaker 1: you are, as I understand it.
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  Speaker 2: Are you one of the club captains?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm one of the three club capitals.
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  Speaker 1: Now, you guys usually have a bit of a dance
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  Speaker 1: that you do as well, don't you at the carnival?
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  Speaker 2: Have you been practicing yep?
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  Speaker 3: So this year we are doing footlooth as our dance
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  Speaker 3: can be warm up and then hopefully on one of
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  Speaker 3: the days we get to perform it in front of everyone.
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  Speaker 2: All wonderful stuff.
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  Speaker 1: How funn is it to sort of just get to
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  Speaker 1: because I know it's about competition, but how funny is
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  Speaker 1: it just sort of get to hang out with your
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  Speaker 1: mates for four days as well and have a good time.
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  Speaker 4: It's really fun. Like the dance brings everyone together, yep.
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  Speaker 4: And like we did a few practices yesterday and it
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  Speaker 4: was going great.
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  Speaker 2: Well, yeah, all good stuff.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I love that you guys are all prepped for
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  Speaker 1: the weekend. But what I really love is, like I
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  Speaker 1: said right from the get go, young people doing great stuff,
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  Speaker 1: and I think that sport is such an amazing way
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  Speaker 1: for you to be able to, you know, to be
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  Speaker 1: part of the community, help to mentor young people like
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  Speaker 1: you do Talia, which you should be really proud of
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  Speaker 1: with your coaching because it's a great thing to do.
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  Speaker 1: And yeah, I just love what sport does for the community.
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  Speaker 1: So good on you guys. Hope you smash it this
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  Speaker 1: weekend and go the Dar and buffs. Thank you, Thank
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  Speaker 1: you both for coming in this morning and having a
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  Speaker 1: chat with me.
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  Speaker 2: That is Taialia Sheridan there and Sam Rider