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Six USC Spartans swimmers and their coach Nathan Doyle will travel to Cairns this weekend for a Swimming Australia staging camp ahead of the Tokyo Paralympic Games.
Four of the six swimmers – Katja Dedekind, Keira Stephens, Ruby Storm and Ben Hance – were announced as Australian Paralympic team members immediately after the 2021 Australian Swimming Trials in mid-June.
Two other athletes – Blake Cochrane and Braedan Jason – swam qualifying times at the trials but had to wait until recently for confirmation of their selection for the Tokyo Games that will start on 24 August.
Blake, who graduated from USC last year with a degree in Clinical Exercise Science, is now a four-time Paralympian with four Paralympic medals to his name.
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Commonwealth Games gold medallist, Rowan Crothers said it was good to get back together as a group.
“It’s been nice to come here together at the start of the year and just have this training camp,” Crothers said.
“It’s part of the road for Tokyo this year and then leading into the future.
“No-one knows what’s going to happen in the next few months.
“We just trained hard and enjoyed ourselves with a bit of fun on the side and get to the big smoke.”
The team not only spent time diving into training in the pool, but out of it as well with Doyle focusing on cohesion and building the connection between athletes.