Top Australian Prospects To Receive Grant Promoting Future Of Australian Swimming

The Australian Commonwealth Games Association (ACGA) will be giving a grant to a group of young, promising Australian swimmers who look to be the next generation of talent down under.

After the 2015 Georgina Hope Swimmers Foundation Australian Age Group Championships and the 2015 Hancock Prospecting Australian Swimming Championships in April, Swimming Australia handpicked a total of 22 athletes to receive the grant, in what is now known as the NextGEN squad.

The NextGEN squad, previously known as the Australian Junior Commonwealth Games Squad, has had a history of helping Australia’s youth reach their goals on a senior international level. From 2011 to 2013, 55 athletes were selected for this program. Seventeen of them qualified for the 2014 Australian Commonwealth Games team showing an impressive 31 per cent success rate.

Swimmers such as Bronte Campbell, Cameron McEvoy, David McKeon, and Daniel Tranter were all recipients of the grant, and all went on to successfully represent Australia in international competition.

The young athletes in this NextGEN squad look extremely promising. One of the biggest names to be receiving the grant is Kyle Chalmers who earned a roster spot on the Australian World Championship team. Already making is debut into international competition, Chalmers looks to be one of the top future prospects for the Australian national team.

Several of the young athletes added to the NextGEN squad will be representing Australia at the 2015 Junior World Championships. The whole lot of them will be competing at the Australian Junior Commonwealth Games in Samoa from September 5 to 12.

The following swimmers make up the NextGEN Squad:

NextGEN Squad: Minna Atherton, (Brisbane Grammar QLD), Grayson Bell, (TSS Aquatics QLD), Ella Bond, (Marion SA), Jack Cartwright, (St Peters Western QLD), Kyle Chalmers, (Marion SA), Tamsin Cook, (West Coast WA), Gemma Cooney, (River City Rapids QLD), Vincent Dai, (Cherrybrook Carlile NSW), Amy Forrester, (St Peters Western QLD), Nicholas Groenewald, (Nunawading VIC), Shayna Jack, (Chandler QLD), Lucia Lassman , (Miami QLD), Clyde Lewis, (Brothers QLD), Tristan Ludlow, (St Peters Western QLD), Brayden McCarty, (Palm Beach Currumbin QLD), Lucy McJannett, (Bayside NSW), Joshua Parrish, (TSS Aquatics QLD), Calypso Sheridan, (Brisbane Grammar QLD), Ariane Titmus, (Launceston TAS), Matthew Wilson, (SOPAC NSW), Elyse Woods, (Melbourne Vicentre VIC), Bradley Woodward, (Mingara NSW)