Swimmers tipped for medals

A number of local swimmers competing in the NSW Swimming Winter Country Championships on July 8 to 9 were expected to feature prominently on the medal dais.

The Peninsula Leisure Centre fielded a 16-member squad for the event, to be held at the Sydney Aquatic Centre, Homebush Bay.

Nathan Broadbent was favoured to medal in the 200m individual medley and Ryan Kenny in the butterfly events.

Both Broadbent and Kenny are members of the national and state swim squads.

Team-mates Lucy Wild and Timothy Schofield, both national medallists, were also tipped to pick up medals in the breaststroke and backstroke events respectively.

Press release, July 5 Marion Newall, Gosford Council