CLEVELAND Air Magic continues to produce skipping stars, with 23 home-grown athletes selected for the Australian squad to tour Canada next year.
The club walked away from the Australian Rope Skipping Championships in Sydney with 212 medals and 10 Australian records.
It comes just months after world champion and Australia's Got Talent star Luke Boon successfully defended his world champion crown at the World Jump Rope Championships in Norway alongside teammates Jake Eve, Lilly Barker and Ben Cooper.
Cleveland Air Magic international competition coordinator Clare Stariha said she was extremely proud of her athletes, who beat out more than 250 skippers from across the country to earn selection in the national squad.
"It is absolutely amazing that we had 23 skippers trying out for the Australian squad and all 23 made it," she said.
"That just goes to show that if you train hard it comes through in the end."
Stariha said the senior team had trained five days a week leading into the Australian championships.
"I think they were on such a high after Norway they just kept it going to get them through nationals to qualify for the Australian squad," she said.
"There are skippers from all over the country that make up that squad but there is a huge contingency of Redlanders in there.
"It is amazing that little Redlands has so many good skippers."
Stariha puts her athletes' success down to the healthy competition they have between themselves.
"You have that other person you want to beat or that person you want to be as good as and that makes you a better skipper," she said.
The skipping community are pushing for the sport to be included in the Olympics.
If they are successful, Redlands athletes could make up the lion's share of the very first Australian team.
The age 12 to 14 Australian reps from Cleveland Air Magic are Ava Huston, Gabby Mol, Chloe Mol, Trinity North, Melody North, Ella Cruz, Quinn Oliver and Holly Rhind.
The senior members selected in the Australian squad are Luke Boon, Lilly Barker, Jake Eve, Jackie Robba, Ben Cooper, Baylie Stariha, Jaymee Gilbert, Belinda Charlesworth, Makella Hoad, Jemma Bihari, Erin Aspinall, Jasmine Hawkins, Naomi Tucker, Emma Jackson and Amy Grimes.
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