Swimmers Selected for 2023/24 National Age Programme

Announcement of the 2023/24 National Age Programme Team

Swimming NZ would like to congratulate the 23 swimmers who have qualified as Gold and Silver swimmers for the National Age Programme in the 2023/24 intake. These swimmers met the qualifying times for the programme at the 2023 Apollo Projects New Zealand Championships and National Age Group Championships.

The National Age Programme allows young swimmers to gain additional race experience, partake in development opportunities, progress as a group, and prepare for upcoming international competitions.

National Development Leader, Alistair Johnson is impressed with the athletes.

“I am delighted to confirm that we have selected 32 Olympic and Paralympic pathway athletes onto the National Age Programme for 2023-2024. We have seen a big increase in the number of Gold and Silver athletes when compared to 12 months ago. This is an exciting group of young athletes of different ages and strokes.”

One of the highlights of this year's programme is the Queensland Long Course Championships which the team will travel to in December. This will provide great experience racing against some of Australia's top age group swimmers.

The following swimmers have been selected:

Name	Club	Coach
Elwin Bao	North Shore	Dave Prattley
Brooke Bennett	Vikings	Todd Mason
Max Cave	AquaBladz	Mariano Nani
Jasper Cornish	Coast	John Gatfield
Bailey Conlon	Te Arawa	Henk Greupink
Isabelle Gibson	United	Igor Polianski
Milan Glintmeyer	Kiwi West	Tracey Breuer
Larn Hamblyn-Ough	Coast	John Gatfield
Orlando Hardie	Hamilton Aquatics	Mat Woofe
Finn Harland	Capital	Gary Hollywood
James Haydon	Club 37	Mitch Nairn
Harrison James	Vikings	Todd Mason
Cameron Karpik	United	Igor Polianski
Harrison Klouwens	TBSS	Sandra Burrow
Erin Knox	SwimZone Racing	Frank Tourelle
Alyssa Lawson	St Peters	Aly Fitch
Laura Littlejohn	St Pauls	Matt Kredich
Nemanya Markovich	Roskill	Josh Munro
Lili-Fox Mason	Wharenui	Matt Houston
Anahira McCutcheon	TBSS	Sandra Burrow
Ariel Muchirahondo	Swim Rotorua	Aiden Withington
Charlotte Murphy	Aquagym	Emma Smith
Zoe Pedersen	Coast	John Gatfield
Jack Potier	Coast	John Gatfield
Rylee Sayer	Matamata	Graeme Laing
Gabriella Smith	Vikings	Todd Mason
Asher Smith-Franklin	North Shore	David Prattley
Jacob Story	Mt Eden	Don McKenna
Mason Wang	United	Igor Polianski
Monique Wieruszowski	AquaBladz	Mariano Nani
Joshua Willmer	Pukekohe	Sheldon Kemp
Kevin Zhang	Roskill	Josh Munro

Congratulations to all the swimmers and coaches for their selection and performance at the 2023 Apollo Projects National Championships and Age Group Championships.