Swimming Australia Names 28 Swimmers for 2013 Junior World Championships

Swimming Australia has named 28 of its best swimmers (13 boys and 15 girls) to the 2013 FINA Junior World Championships squad that will head to Dubai next summer for the 4th edition of this global high-level event.

The roster includes swimmers from a who’s-who of top Australian clubs, and several swimmers who seem to be separated from the senior international teams only by a year-or-two of development, tops.

This list includes the top 14-17 year old girls and 15-18 year old boys from Australia’s National Championships meet a few weeks ago.

Among the biggest stars is Mack Horton : one half of the rebuilding of the Australian men’s distance group along with Jordan Harrison, who is bound for the World Championships.

The women’s team is headlined by its youngest member, 14-year old Shayna Jack who is already going times that contend with Australia’s best sprinters of any age, and backstroker Monique Rae, who is also just 14 years old.

Brianna Throssell, Alanna Bowles, Jemma Schlicht, and Georgia Bohl also sit on a supremely deep and talented women’s team that will look to improve upon the just 5 medals that they scored in 2011; that included only a single bronze medal in the relays (the 800 free, to be precise). We still don’t know what many of the world’s teams look like this year, but the 2013 edition of this women’s team should be much better prepared to land a big haul.