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Intro:
Todays guest is Geni O’Keeffe.
Geni is a mum to Poppy. A 17 year old talented football player, currently with our Melbourne Victory A league women’s squad as a youth development contracted player.
This is a great conversation about navigating the challenges of the professional level as a teenage athlete, relocating the family to access better opportunities, the challenges of balancing education and sporting commitments and much more.
Geni is a sporting parent who is finding solutions to the daily challenges of having a high performing, talented youth athlete in the house, which we know resonates with a large part of our audience.
There’s plenty to get out of this episode.
OK, Lets go!
Family
- 4 children, all sporty, especially tennis.
Poppy (16 years old):
- Murray United
- Playing in a boys team up to U13s
- Played representative soccer
- Football Victory NTC & Emerging programs
- NTC U17, U20 and NPLW competitions
- National Youth Championship
- National Futsal (2020 – present), Championship Winners (2023)
- Melbourne Victory A league women’s
- Pre Academy Centre (2019 - 2020)
- Elite Girls Program (2021 – 2023)
- Train on player (2023/24)
- Youth Development Contract (2023 - 25)
- A league pre season match vs Western United
- Football Australia
- Aus Junior Matildas U17 training camps (2023 - 2024)
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