Bronte Campbell

It’s tricky to be a professional Australian swimmer when your older sister is also a professional Australian swimmer.

Especially when you’re the first-ever Australian sisters to compete in the 100m freestyle event at the Commonweath Games.

Welcome to the life of 20-year-old Bronte Campbell – one of the two sisters who are absolutely killing it across the sprinting events.

Both Bronte and Cate grew up in Africa and started swimming when they moved over to Australia as children. Both of them will also be heading over to the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, which kick off at the end of July.

The Aussie team is already able to boast about excellent positioning on the Commowealth level, and so we’ve definitely got the potential to bring home at least a couple of gold medals.

Over the next few weeks, we’ll be asking some of our Australian athletes to tell us about their lives and their sporting dreams, as we watch them prepare for Glasgow.

Here’s Bronte’s story.

And in other sports news from the week…

– Hockeyroo Emily Hurst has retired from the team, deciding to dedicate more of her time to her university studies. The 24-year-old had recently been selected for the Commonwealth Games squad and had contributed to Hockeyroos success at the world cup in the Netherlands. She told Hockey Australia: “It hasn’t been an easy decision for me to make, especially considering the recent successes of the Hockeyroos.” Best of luck to you, Emily!

– Our Aussie women’s wheelchair basketball team, The Gliders, finished in sixth place at the 2014 IWBF Women’s World Wheelchair Basketball Championships. Congratulations, Gliders.

– Nick Kyrgios. That is all.

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