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Regional teen travels 8 hours for AFLW dream
Australian Community Media
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12/6/2024
Moree teenager Lauren Appleby has her eyes set on being drafted to the AFLW as she trains at the Sydney Swans Academy.
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I'd love to, you know, be one of the best players in the AFL Derby.
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I'd love to be drafted one day and it's a goal of mine especially coming from more of a remote area.
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It just makes it 10 times harder and even 10 times more, I suppose, of a goal.
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And I just love to make the family back home proud.
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From Moree to Moorpark, Lauren Appleby travels eight hours to play AFL in the Sydney Swans Academy.
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My flight would usually be just over an hour and a half and by car it's about eight hours.
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For Lauren, a weekend game of footy is a three-hour drive away in Tamworth.
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Well, at home we don't even have AFL posts put up at all.
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We don't have anything like that.
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So training at home has to be done all by myself and with my own motivation.
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The 17-year-old keeps up her training with her homemade goalposts.
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Dad put up some posts in the backyard for me to aim at and that's my training.
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That's probably the only post that are in town.
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The talented athlete is starring in a TikTok series,
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Youngbloods, which is documenting young athletes journeys to elite sports.
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Lauren, take two.
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Oh no.
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That's a motocross track there.
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Over that way.
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Over that way.
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Good job.
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Now have a sleep.
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The reality in the last 10 years at the academy, we've taken 12 to 15 players.
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You're sharing the exact same grounds and training fields
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with the professionals, the people that are, you know, getting paid to play the game.
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I'd love to be able to encourage other people from around
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more remote areas to be able to chase their dreams and,
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you know, put your mind to something and be able to do it.
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