Congratulations to Brock Cunliffe and William Larkin on their selection in the Australian under 19 Open team! The lads will now spend the next 18 weeks continuing up the preparation curve for the World Ultimate and Guts Championships in Vancouver in early August.
Australian Juniors go overseas every two years (they compete at Worlds every four years, but there's also the World Junior Ultimate Championships in between - this maximises exposure while players age from @16-19) so the memories associated with these groups are very fresh (and in some ways the coaching and administration of Aussie Juniors is getting to be continuous).
But I hear that this time around competition for places was at its tightest. Commiserations to the Stone brothers of the Byron region for missing out this time around. Guess we'll have to show them at Nats!
Queenslanders Piers Truter and John McNaughton have been prominent in the back-room of this campaign so far, and they deserve a big pat on the back for the effort they're putting in.
The Aussie Thunder (as the Junior lads are known) just missed out on Bronze a couple of years ago. I think everyone agrees that a medal is on the cards this time again - but there's a lot of work to do between now and then! So any help you can offer Brock and Will ... I reckon they'd love you for it.
And check out the trivia section under "Thunderstruck" over at Wikipedia.
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Aussie Thunder! I saw an ad beside the road the other day advertising this...I don't think it was frisbee related. :O
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