WATER polo teenagers Brooke Dickie and Bridget Johnston yesterday boarded an international flight that could just launch their Olympic dreams.
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The Albury Sharks pair are the only two girls from regional Australia in the national under-18 team that will spend the next three weeks in Europe.
A week-long training camp in Budapest will be followed by a four- nation tournament against hosts Germany, the Netherlands and New Zealand before a final training camp in Istanbul.
Centre forward Dickie, 17, and keeper Johnston, 16, make no secret of their dream to play for the Stingers.
“Rio is too soon, but let’s say the Olympics in Tokyo in 2020,” Albury High’s Johnston said.
“That’s the dream, that would be fantastic.”
The pair are team-mates in the Victorian Seals in the national water polo league, but it was playing for the Ovens and Murray that started the national selection process.
“We went to the nationals for the Ovens and Murray and then was shortlisted for training camps at the AIS and finally made this team,” Dickie said.
“There has been a lot of training, a lot of travelling and I guess we are just lucky we have both of us on the same path.”
