Cindy Petersons
The AFL season is over but a committed group of five local players travel to the Gold Coast each Saturday morning to continue training with Joey Hayes at the Strongman camp.
On Saturday they and 45 other kids aspiring to be AFL recruits trained alongside Kurt Tippett (Sydney Swans) and Brent Staker (former Brisbane Lion).
Also at the camp were Mason Wood (North Melbourne) and Gold Coast Suns Academy head coach Andrew Raines.
This was Flynn Petersons’ third Strongman camp and he also trains with Joey Hayes at USP twice a week.
He credits this training for his selection into the U/15s (level 2) Gold Coast Suns Academy, where he also trains twice a week.
Flynn was awarded Best and Fairest for the second year in a row and also received the Club President’s Award for his efforts in 2016 for the Byron Bay junior Magpies.
The boys were selected into the newly formed Northern Rivers team to play at the Maroochydore in the Queensland state finals where they won three out of four games.
It’s fantastic commitment from our local lads.
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