{"id":66881,"date":"2020-04-29T13:47:46","date_gmt":"2020-04-29T03:47:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/afl.draftcentral.localhost\/?p=66881"},"modified":"2020-05-20T08:19:00","modified_gmt":"2020-05-19T22:19:00","slug":"qa-tahlia-mead-maroochydore-queensland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/afl\/2020\/04\/29\/qa-tahlia-mead-maroochydore-queensland\/","title":{"rendered":"Q&A: Tahlia Mead (Maroochydore\/Queensland)"},"content":{"rendered":"

AS the postponement of all seasons commenced over the last week, we head back to the preseason a month earlier where we chatted to a number of athletes across the country. In a special Question and Answer (Q&A) feature, Draft Central<\/em>‘s Taylah Melki<\/em><\/strong> chatted with Queensland’s Tahlia Mead<\/strong>\u00a0at the state testing day hosted by Rookie Me<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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\nMELKI: How did you get into footy, Tahlia?<\/strong><\/p>\n

MEAD: “It was kind of an accident to be honest. I wanted to go to a high school and the only way I could get in was through a scholarship or through an academy and it was either dancing or AFL. So I thought ‘Oh, AFL is close to touch football’ – I come from a touch footy background so I tried it, was the only girl in the class and yeah, just picked it up from there and just loved it.”<\/p>\n

How have you found the transition from touch to Australian rules football?<\/strong><\/p>\n

“It was good, it was hard because obviously they’re two different sports. “But I used my speed from touch and transitioned to AFL so it was good, I liked it.”<\/p>\n

What is it that you love about footy?<\/strong><\/p>\n

“Just the atmosphere. “It’s so unpredictable and you’ve got to adapt to everything and you just never know what’s going to happen.”<\/p>\n

How’s the pre-season been?<\/strong><\/p>\n

“I mean, it’s always hard to try and get into fitness and running again but it’s been good. “You definitely have to work hard for it.<\/p>\n

Is there a particular area that you feel you’re really strong in?<\/strong><\/p>\n

“Probably speed, running around.”<\/p>\n

Is there an area you’re hoping to improve on?<\/strong><\/p>\n

“Yeah, there’s always room for improvement in everything but I feel like skills, I need to start to perfect (them) and everything needs to be sharp.”<\/p>\n

And what are you hoping to get out of the season?<\/strong><\/p>\n

“I’m hoping to make the state team.”<\/p>\n

What would it mean for you to make the state team?<\/strong><\/p>\n

“It would mean a lot. “It would be an ultimate goal.”<\/p>\n

Have you had any particular footballing inspiration or are there any athletes you aspire to?<\/strong><\/p>\n

“Tayla Harris<\/strong>. “I think she’s a big influencer, “I’d like to be like her and move up there.”<\/p>\n

Is there a particular position you’d like to play?<\/strong><\/p>\n

“Midfield, I’d like to be around the ball.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

AS the postponement of all seasons commenced over the last week, we head back to the preseason a month earlier where we chatted to a number of athletes across the country. In a special Question and Answer (Q&A) feature, Draft Central‘s Taylah Melki chatted with Queensland’s Tahlia Mead\u00a0at the state testing day hosted by Rookie […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":66893,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5603,11616,278,8,3132,15,137],"tags":[10162,11806,11269,3600,11804,11805,1777,7441],"class_list":["post-66881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aflw-national-championships","category-brisbane-lions-academy","category-feature-articles","category-news","category-queensland","category-state-leagues","category-womens","tag-draft-central","tag-maroochydore","tag-queensland-feature","tag-rookie-me","tag-tahlia-mead","tag-tahlia-mead-feature","tag-tayla-harris","tag-taylah-melki"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/afl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/afl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/afl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/afl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/afl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/afl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66881\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/afl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/afl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/afl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/afl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}