April and May have been exciting months with many past and present WRAS athletes receiving selection in State and National sides. Here are just some of these remarkable achievements:

• Basketball athlete Mitch Mavrak has been selected in the Australian Boomerangs – the national men’s basketball side for athletes with an intellectual disability that will travel to the Czech Republic in July to take part in the 2009 INAS-FID Global Games
• Hockey players Jade Warrender and Tamsin Lee included in the Australian 2009 Women’s Junior World Cup Squad
• WRAS basketballers Hannah Lepaio and Laurence Mifsud named in the U16 NSW teams to represent the state at the Australian Championships
• Following the NSW Junior Touch Football Championships last week, Basketball High Performance squad athlete Olivia Patterson was named in the NSW 16 years Merit Team
• Female hockey athletes Kate Brown, Madeline Bott, Keely Hunter, Ailie McGarity and Zoe Watts have all been selected in the NSW U15 Girls squad. The girls will attend a high performance camp in July where the final selections for the team will be completed
• Current hockey athletes Tim Eslick, Nick Hill, Nick Milne and Jacob Townsend have been selected in the NSW U16 boys All Schools squad

Congratulations to all these WRAS athletes!