Young country athletes often face more hurdles than their city counterparts, but that may soon change.
An Emergency Warning has been issued for Tara, Kogan, Halliford, Wieambilla, Moonie, and Durong in QLD. For the latest, search onDemi Burns is the fastest 15-year-old girl over 400 metres in Western Australia, but she has been training herself since her coach died six months ago.But things may soon change for the Albany teen, with the opening of the Great Southern Sports Academy.
Demi has competed in state and national competitions and hopes to one day compete at the Olympic Games. "We were the Mountaineers, he would say to climb a mountain, you can't climb around it so you have to climb up it ... so you have to face all your fears."Demi said there were barriers that came with living in a regional area."Opportunities, there's not a lot of high-end athletes here and I need people to push me and sometimes that's not possible and I'm always having to travel to Perth to get those coaches," she said.
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