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Today we have our YouFor2032 Development Camp. So we have over 60 athletes that have come in from all over Queensland bringing their parents in to learn from some of our QAS experts.

We have a range of things happening today, we have a nutrition education session we have parent education around what the athlete pathways are going to look like.

We have an elite athlete panel with a few of our QAS elite athletes coming in to talk to our developing athletes about what the pathway is going to look like for them in the future.

We’re bringing athletes into the gym where they can learn more about strength and conditioning and recovery. Basically everything these athletes need to set themselves up for their future in high performance sport.

We have a whole range of athletes in the room today from 13 through to 23 years old from about 18 different sports. These athletes have come through YouFor2032 program in the last 12 months so all of these athletes tested in 2023, they then entered our three-month talent confirmation period and these athletes have now progressed on through to our 12-month talent development phase where they're embedded within their Sports and beginning to start on their high-performance journey within their sports.

So I'm Holly Hembling and I've come from swimming and I'm now in the YouFor32 Triathlon. I was in the first cohort of YouFor32. I did testing probably two years ago now which is crazy and I got selected for five sports and I went through for the 3 month stage for just a couple of those and now I've been selected for the 12 month phase of the triathon and swimming.

I've never thought of being a triathlon athlete and now having this program and being able to just see others do it and knowing one sport and then being able to learn the other two is like crazy.

These athletes have a number of touch points over the coming months with the Queensland Academy of Sport we will do online webinars around different educational topics for them we will have another Development Camp later in the year.

While they're doing all of those things with us they also working really hard in their sports they're starting to compete they're starting to attend State and National Championships and really just working through their athlete journey towards a high performance program within the next 12 months.

Don't limit yourself to what you're in right now and take every opportunity that comes at you this opportunity I like wouldn't have seen it coming but it's insane and I made it for states in my second Triathlon I did so I competed at States and so definitely working towards the next year making it to Nationals in triathlon which would be great and I want to go to the Olympics one day and whatever sport it is.