Published on: 9 February 2017


Growing up in Bicton, Ashton Turner (2010) went to school at Christ Church. Under 10s was his first year of club cricket. “Growing up I was good but I wasn’t really good. A lot of the guys on our team at the moment would have stood out a lot more than I did”, says Ashton.

Now in his fifth year with the Perth Scorchers, Ashton is loving his life as a professional athlete. “The first time I got picked for representative honours was the WA Under 15s side. Up until then you just played for fun and you didn’t really think anything of it. Then you get picked in that side and you think ‘Hang on, I’m actually OK at this,’” said Ashton.

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Original source: West Weekend, 28 January 2017 by Amanda Keenan