Clinton Jonasson to coach Warracknabeal running team to State Firefighting Championship

Clinton Jonasson speak with The Wimmera Mail-Times journalist John Hall about the upcoming State Firefighting Championships.

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00:00 I've started out because my wife's family have been in the fire brigade and in the running team for probably

00:06 50-60 years. It's just been a family thing for her side of the family

00:11 I sort of joined the running team when my young bloke started at 11

00:16 He started in the juniors and then I joined

00:19 the senior running team then to help out with numbers because getting numbers is always a bit of a problem as you get a bit

00:25 older as the seniors sort of thing. So yeah, I joined up there

00:30 really

00:32 really loved it

00:33 Unfortunately, I regret not starting earlier now like earlier in life sort of thing. So because yeah, it's really good fun

00:39 Just the competition the skill that's involved in doing it

00:43 It's not just easy as it looks like it's all pressure when you're standing around people watching and all that sort of stuff

00:48 So yeah, it all comes down to doing your work, right?

00:53 So then then yeah, I helped out with the juniors

00:56 with the local captain Cam Whelan

00:59 he was coach at the time and then he sort of stepped aside and allowed me to

01:05 Take the juniors on and I've been doing that for probably the last five years

01:09 Coaching them and the last three or two or three years. They've done really well at the States

01:14 They've come away with a few placings at the state championships

01:17 Which is quite good out of say 50 teams that finished in the top three sort of four or five times

01:23 Really proud of the juniors there

01:25 hopefully this year the team's looking quite good in the under 17, so

01:30 hopefully they can do their work right on the day and

01:33 Yeah, come away with a bit of success there

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