Sport on Saturdays: The Australian sisters competing in the same event at the Commonwealth Games.

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.

We moved to Australia just after the Olympics in 2000, and I remember watching Grant Hackett’s win in the 1500m. That is what inspired me to try and become an Olympian.

We joined the local club and started competing at low level meets for fun. We got more and more excited about competitive swimming and then at 12 or 13, we started to get serious with it.

A definite highlight for me was swimming the 50m in freestyle at the London Olympics in 2012. I love the challenge that swimming presents, I feel challenged every single day. I also really enjoy the travel element and meeting new people from all walks of life. You have to absolutely love it though, love nothing more than racing and be willing to go at it 100%.

We are into really heavy training at the moment. We train in the morning, go home to recover, finish off University work and then train again in the afternoon. Every morning we’re up by about 4:30am and we’re in bed very early as well.

During the Commonwealth Games, I’ll be competing in the 50m Freestyle, 100m Freestyle and the 100m Freestyle relay. The Commonwealth Games really mean a lot to me, as they do for all Australians. I grew up watching them here in Australia as well as in our home country of South Africa. I also love that the Games brings people from all different sports together, it’s a very fun competition to be involved in.

As swimming is part of Australia’s DNA, I always feel the pressure to do well. We have a lot of stiff competition in the pool, but we are a young and strong team so we will see how we go, hopefully we can stick it to our rivals, the Poms!

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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