On My Day with Nat Cook - Sydney Relived: Naomi McCarthy (née Castle) - a podcast by Natalie Cook

On My Day with Nat Cook: Sydney Relived
produced by m4m

Season 2:
Episode #9

September 23rd 2020

Naomi McCarthy (née Castle) - Naomi McCarthy (née Castle) made history as part of the first women’s water polo team to ever win OLYmpic gold. Women’s water polo was introduced to the Games in 2000, and in this episode, Naomi tells how she and her Aussie Stingers teammate Yvette Higgins stole the gold from the USA in the final two minutes of the game! 

Naomi talks about the intense week of competition, as well as the aftermath: everyone including the coach jumped (or was pulled!) into the pool, and Naomi spent the rest of the Games celebrating in Sydney and supporting her fellow Aussie athletes who were still to compete. Nat tells Naomi that watching the Stingers win gold from her Bondi hotel room inspired her to do the same with her beach volleyball partner Kerri Pottharst the following day. 

Celebrate and WIN!
To celebrate the magic of #SydneyRelived, 20 years on, we have a swag of prizes up for grabs! Fill in the form and answer the daily question to go into the draw to win one of 12 prizes including:

• 3 x Royal Australian Mint 2020 Australian Olympic Team Coin, signed by beach volleyball star Taliqua Clancy
• 3 x pairs of Ace Optics performance sunglasses
• 3 x Boxing Kangaroo plush toys 
• 3 x signed copies of Laurie Lawrence’s book Stuff the Silver, We’re Going for Gold 

You can also follow the On My Day with Nat Cook: Sydney Relived playlist on Spotify which has songs from every Athlete they use to pump themselves up and get them ready for their gold medal performance! Click Here!

SPECIAL FEATURE:

At the end of every episode is a special song that was recorded by Marcia Hines and performed exclusively to the Australian Olympic team at the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games. This song has never been heard before outside of the Olympic Village and it is with great pleasure that we share this song with you with a big thanks to Marcia herself and her manager Peter Rix! 

Pump up the sound to RISE UP as the journey's just begun!

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Produced by m4m

CREDITS:

Host
Natalie Cook

Producers
Rebecca Pini - m4m
Amanda Goddard - m4m

Sound Engineer & Audio Mastering
Kaleb Pini -m4m

Production Assistant
Lauren McDonald - m4m

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