Representative Teams

REPRESENTATIVE TEAMS

In addition to traveling around Australia and abroad, selection to a representative team provides athletes with development and leadership opportunities in and out of the pool including access to high performance coaches and athletes, mentoring, national and international competition and touring, training and development camps, and depending on the level of representation access to individual sporting grants and funding.

To be eligible for representative teams, athletes must be a member or Royal Life Saving (or Surf Life Saving for SLSA representative teams), hold a current lifesaving award, and attend selection events that may include state or national championships, time trials or selection camps.

AUSTRALIAN LIFESAVING TEAM

Supported by Sport Australia (SA) and in partnership with Surf Life Saving Australia (SLSA), the Australian Lifesaving Team (ALT) is the High Performance pathway for lifesaving sport in Australia. The Australian Lifesaving Team is comprised of three squads - Youth, Pathway and Open, with top performing athletes in each discipline (pool, open water/craft and beach) selected to contest the biennial World Lifesaving Championships and other national team competitions within the two-year Lifesaving World Championship campaign.

Nominations, position descriptions and selection criteria for the Australian Lifesaving Team are advertised on the Royal Life Saving, Surf Life Saving and Australian Life Saving Team social media channels and websites.

NOMINATIONS AND SELECTION

The selection process for the Australian Lifesaving Team has begun for the 2024 Lifesaving World Championship held in the Gold Coast, 20th August to 8th September 2024.

Athletes wishing to be considered for selection must submit their Expression of Interest form no later than 11:59 on Thursday, 29th February 2024.