Camilla Hattersley of Perth, who recently won the Scottish Open Swimming Championship at 400m and 800m freestyle, is pictured receiving a cheque for £500 from Rotary President Colin Moreland.

Athletes such as Camilla who compete at the top level incur huge personal expenses and the presentation should help ease the financial burden to some extent. 

We gave Camilla a similar amount of financial help last year shortly before she represented GB at the Rio Olympics.  

Next month she is due to travel to Taipei to compete in the World Student Games (the Universiade), where 12,000 athletes are expected to take  part.    The Universiade is widely recognised as the second largest multisport Games in the world after the Olympics and progressively has risen to World Class in scale and standard.

During the competition she hopes to achieve a qualifying time for  next year’s Commonwealth Games on Australia’s Gold Coast and we all wish her continued success. 

(The other photos show Camilla by the pool and in action representing Great Britain).