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 of Royal Life Saving or Surf Life Saving, hold a current lifesaving award, and attend selection events that may include state or national championships, time trials or selection camps.
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 2025 RLSS Commonwealth Lifesaving Championships held in the Swansea, Wales, 10th - 13th July 2025. The Competition will be conducted under the RLSS Competition Handbook (Dec 2024 edition).
All those wishing to be a part of the tour (Coaches, Managers, Athletes) must submit their Expression of Interest forms as below:
National & Development Coach Expression of Interest - submit by 11:59pm on Sunday 5th January 2025.
Manager & Assistant Manager Expression of Interest - submit by 11:59pm on Sunday 5th January 2025.
Athlete Expression of Interest - submit by 11:59pm on Friday 17th January 2025 (second day of APLSC).
