More young athletes get the go ahead for Poland

In the interest of developing the future of the sport through international experiences, the Athletics Australia High Performance staff asked that the selectors review the team for the IAAF World Junior Championships in Poland in August.

Peter Fitzgerald, Chairman of Selectors and his team considered the request and decided to use the overriding discretion set out in clause 8 of the selection policy to add the following athletes to the team that will travel to Poland in July: Henry Frayne (triple jump), Brittney McGlone (400h), Zoe Timmers (high jump), Annabel Davies (javelin) and Kate Shierlaw (javelin). World Championships representative Kurt Mulcahy, previously named in the 400m will also benefit from this decision, adding the 200m to his World Juniors program.

The additional athletes will take the Australian contingent to 31 athletes and with a Commonwealth Youth Games squad of 30 athletes to be named in the next few weeks, more than 60 athletes from the ages of 16 to 19 will have a significant International experience in 2008. The development pathway for young track and field athletes is structured to provide a range of experiences suited to the varying development levels and aims to give talented juniors the support necessary to keep them in the sport and assist them to take the step up to senior competition.