AFTER spending nine years honing her skills on the touch football field, Katherinite Georgia Walker’s ability has been recognised with one of the Northern Territory’s highest accolades in the sport.
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Walker was crowned the 2014 Junior Female Player of the Year at the NT Touch Football Awards in Darwin on May 3 and said it had been a hard - and often solitary - slog to progress in the sport.
“Being in a remote town, I am usually one of few or the only player selected for [representative] sides, which means I am usually training on my own,” she told the Katherine Times.
“Having to train independently is hard at times but, when it comes to the competition, if you are unfit, it really shows and vice versa, if you are fit, it shows as well, so this drives me to train hard to not let the team down and to play my best.”
The 18-year-old has played in the NT under-18 women’s side for four years, and has just returned from the 2015 NT championship with the Katherine Rebels, who finished third in the competition.
She said the intensity of the sport and the bonds made with other players was what had driven her for almost a decade.
“I have been playing since I was nine years old,” she said.
“I love the high intensity of the sport and speed which it is played at.
“Also, the friends I have made since starting at nine I have still remained close with and play alongside or against.”
