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EASTERN Ranges have taken time easing into training, but head coach <\/span>Travis Cloke <\/i><\/b>is confident the team is in really good shape heading into the season, saying the girls are \u2018happy, fit and healthy\u2019<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThis is the first year they\u2019ve had a proper program in place that\u2019s been full time,\u201d Cloke said, \u201cSo we\u2019ve tried to ease them into it as much as we can, but understanding and explaining to the girls that they had Round 1 coming in less than 8 weeks.\u201d “We missed a few sessions, pre-Christmas due to some storms and post-Christmas due to the heat.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

With the changes to coach allocation within the NAB League clubs due to COVID, Cloke is excited to be taking on the role across both the boys and the girls programs.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI was in Queensland when it all came about, I was jumping out of my skin to come back and be involved with the NAB. It\u2019s a space I\u2019ve been pretty passionate about my whole career, especially over the last five years when I was transitioning from player to coach,” Cloke said. “I owe it all to <\/span>Luke Power<\/i><\/b>, he dragged me to New Zealand four years ago with his group and from there I\u2019ve really found that love for NAB League and youth development programs.”<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cOur staff at the Eastern Ranges, a lot of them have been involved at NAB League level before which is great, so I lean on them for ideas and how we go about things, and I can bring a fresh look and ideas to the program going forward.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

When asked who had impressed most over the preseason, Cloke was pleased with the entire squad.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cHere\u2019s the thing, do you look at 19-year-old girls? 18, 17, 16? We got a couple of 15 year-old girls as well.\u201d But obviously looking at our older girls, we\u2019ve got <\/span>Georgia Campbell<\/b>, she\u2019s really athletic, got really good height, can take a mark and obviously her skills are very good. We\u2019ve got four or five girls that are training at VFLW at the moment, so we don\u2019t see them as much but when we do, we see the standards of their learning at VFL.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

“Another young lady <\/span>Jorja Livingstone<\/b>, obviously great pedigree from her father at Richmond, but the standards she drives in our group as a young lady is amazing, she runs extremely well with a 7:17 2km time trial. “I look forward to seeing how all our girls perform in our NAB program, it\u2019s new to how it was run previously, but it\u2019s an opportunity for our girls to grow and learn.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Cloke noted that the “whole group” had really developed over the preseason rather than just individuals.<\/p>\n

\u201cFrom the first session when I saw the girls to the last session on Thursday night, it\u2019s been amazing to see their growth, not just as footballers but also as young ladies, and that\u2019s the important factor I want to drive, we\u2019re not just athletes and we\u2019re not just footballers, we\u2019re also part of the community,” Cloke said.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cAnyone that comes into our program, boy or girl, at any age, I want them to leave a better person not just a better athlete. “We try to really touch base on that holistic approach, making sure that our girls that have finished school are doing part-time work, they’re at university, they\u2019ve got something going on. “For our girls that are doing Year 12 this year, lets work with them, make them feel comfortable so the stress and anxiety isn\u2019t there, if you need to have a night off, have a night off, lets be real and understanding that our education is more important than kicking a football around.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The Ranges 2021 campaign will kick off hosting the Western Jets on Saturday February 6, playing at Kilsyth Recreation Reserve.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

EASTERN Ranges have taken time easing into training, but head coach Travis Cloke is confident the team is in really good shape heading into the season, saying the girls are \u2018happy, fit and healthy\u2019 \u201cThis is the first year they\u2019ve had a proper program in place that\u2019s been full time,\u201d Cloke said, \u201cSo we\u2019ve tried […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":97,"featured_media":75987,"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":[11589,18216,7950,8,137],"tags":[46,7858,15453,11281,10861,60,7988,10814,12139],"class_list":["post-75994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-eastern-ranges","category-eastern-ranges-girls","category-nab-league-girls","category-news","category-womens","tag-eastern-ranges","tag-eastern-ranges-girls","tag-eastern-ranges-preview","tag-georgia-campbell","tag-jorja-livingstone","tag-luke-power","tag-nab-league-girls","tag-nab-league-girls-preview","tag-travis-cloke"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/afl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75994","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\/97"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/afl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75994"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/afl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75994\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91015,"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/afl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75994\/revisions\/91015"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/afl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/afl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/afl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/afl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}