Northland swimmers Hayley McIntosh (16) and Callum Prime (15) have been selected into the NZ Age Group Team to compete at the 2015 SAL State Teams Age Groups in Canberra, Australia, September 23-28.
McIntosh and Prime, who are first-year members of the Educare Northland Sports Talent Hub, have excelled at national level throughout the 2014/15 season, having won multiple national medals, made finals at the NZ Open Champs and broken many Northland records.
Northwave coach Monica Cooper said: "They know that wearing the silver fern is an honour, and both are looking forward to stepping up to the next level of performance. Both Hayley and Callum are very focused and consistently apply themselves on a daily basis at training.
"As their home coach, my job is to give my swimmers the skills to cope with all aspects of competing and give them the self-belief that anything is possible," Cooper added, of Swimming New Zealand's long-term plans at getting athletes to the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo.
Prime and McIntosh also featured highly at the Swimming Northland 2014/15 annual awards function held recently. McIntosh was awarded the top award, Northland Swimmer of the Year, after securing a top-10 placing at the NZ Open Championships (9th in the 800m freestyle), winning four national medals across the short- and long-course formats during the season, breaking numerous Northland Open records and collecting the highest FINA points of any Northland swimmer for a single event.
