CHAMPION swimmer Alicia Coutts will spearhead the Redland City contingent at the Commonwealth Games, which open in Glasgow today.
The 26-year-old from Birkdale, led the way in the pool at the 2010 Commonwealth Games in Delhi, bringing home five gold medals.
She will swim three individual events in Scotland the (50 and 100-metre butterfly and 200 individual medley).
Coutts, who is currently based at the Australian Institute of Sport in Canberra, is one of a number of local athletes competing at the games.
Also in the pool will be champion Paralympic swimmer Daniel Fox.
Fox, 22, of Cleveland, will compete in the 200m freestyle at this year's Commonwealth Games.
Making her games debut will be weightlifter Tegan Napper. She will join experienced international competitors Damon Kelly, Erika Ropati-Frost and Robert Galsworthy.
Kelly, who scored silver and gold in 2006 and 2010 respectively, said he was hoping to once again reach a medal position.
The quartet will not be the only Cougars members at the games; Capalaba's Jessica Edge will use her dual-citizenship to compete for Malta after injury prevented her from contesting the Australian trials.
Also in Glasgow is Wellington Point mother of two Donna Dall, who will coach and support Australia's mountain bike riders.
