Swimming squads named

Press, 2 March 1981, Page 30

Swimming squads named

By

KEVIN TUTTY.

Grant Forbes and Phillip Seal, two swimmers who could not win a place in the team for the New Zealand Games, last 'month, have received a rapid elevation to the Brisbane Commonwealth Games squad. Forbes and Seal were included in a squad of 27 announced at the end of. the New Zealand championships in Rotorua on Saturday. Chosen on performances at the New Zealand- Games, the Hansell’s. age-group championships a week - ago, a and the national championships,, the squad will attend a twoweek training camp in Christchurch in May under the well-known Otago coach, Mr Duncan Lang. Teams to swim at several carnivals in California in

July and the Australian winter championships in Brisbane in August will'be selected from the squad. It is hoped the • basis of the team for the Brisbane Commonwealth Games in October 1982 will eventuate from the squad. The main squad is. Men.—Brett Austin, Michael Davidson, Mark Kalaugher (Auckland); Michael Smith, Kara Taumaunu, Forbes, Seal (Canterbury); Barry Salisbury, Mark Jackson, Brent O’Neill (Wellington); Murray Parker (Northland); Richard Wells (Waikato). Women.—Susan Kirkup, Ursula Cross, Monique Rpdahl (Auckland); Melanie Jones, Teresa Stanley, Jennifer Queen (Canterbury); Gail Jonson, Kim Hudson (Waikato); Megan Tbhill, MaryJane Ledgerwood (Otago);

■ Carmel Clarke, Amanda Hay (Hawkes Bay-Poverty Bay); ■ Margaret Hesketh (Welling- . ton); Pamela Croad (Mana- ; watu); Alison Mitchell (Wa- ; nganui).i The second squad is: : Men.—Anthony Mosse (Auckland); Andrew O’Donoghue, Chris Ellis, , Paul Tozer, Geoffrey Taylor (Canterbury); Gregor McFarlane, Graeme Laing (Otago); , Peter Lucas, Dean Green- ; wood (Wellington); Frazer Brown (Hawkes Bay-Poverty Bay); David Baldwin (Nel-son-Marlborough). Women.—Sarah Mahon (Auckland); Catherine An- , drews, Tanya - Woodbury, Anna Doig (Wellington); : Lisa- Chamberlain, Kim Dewar, Susan Willis I (Canterbury); Myra Spell ■ (Waikato); Lisa Hartshorne - (Wanganui); Rebecca Tohill ; (Otago).