POLOCROSSE: Australian captain Jane Cooper will travel from Geraldton in Western Australia to speak to two teams of the best junior polocrosse players in the nation today.

Two Australian teams have been named from the national squad and will play in a four-team Australian Junior Challenge this weekend at Morgan Park.

The players in the national under-16 teams hail from as far as Bauhinia in Central Queensland to Tumut in southern New South Wales and include two players from Western Australia.

The two Australian teams will play each other as well as junior teams from New South Wales and Queensland.

Cooper is one of three speakers organised for a workshop today as a forerunner to the start of Australian Junior Challenge play tonight.

She has played 31 games for Australia and won 30, her only loss was by four goals to South Africa in a World Cup semi-final last month.

The first speaker at the workshop will be Steven Christensen, a lecturer in sports psychology at the University of Southern Queensland.

He specialises in working with adolescent pre-elite athletes and their families and previously worked at the Northern Inland Academy of Sport in northern New South Wales.

Paralympic bronze medallist Matthew Cameron will be the motivation speakers and will be able to talk about the highs and lows of a career which started with a North Queensland Junior Sportsman of the Year award in 2003.

He is a wheelchair sprinter who won bronze at the London Paralympics and is eyeing off the Rio de Janeiro Paralympics next year.

The coaches of the two Australian teams are Robyn Cooper (Gold team) from the Cunningham club and former Australian captain Alison Mathie (Green team) from New South Wales.

Kate Davison and Adam Dickson are the Australian team managers.

Some of the parents of the players in the Australian, Queensland and New South Wales junior teams will be part of the teams in the annual NTI Rose Bowl club carnival.

More than 70 teams are expected to play and will come from as far as Quirindi, New South Wales.

Games start at 6.30pm tonight, 8am tomorrow and Sunday.

There will be meals and games under lights tonight and tomorrow night at the polocrosse grounds.

This weekend will be the final preparation for teams returning to the Southern Downs for the Queensland State Championships to be hosted by Cunningham club at the Bony Mountain Recreation Reserve on September 4-6.

GOLD

Jess Kelly (Quirindi, NSW), Casey Crabb (WA), captain Lindsay Doolan (Coffs Harbour, NSW), Jess Ross (NSW), Will Taylor (Bauhinia, Qld), Tim Finlayson (Guyra, NSW), Byron Davison (Tansey, Qld) and Callum Lancaster (Roma, Qld).GREEN

Brittany Trembath (NSW), Laura Hafey (Tansey, Qld), Emily Watts (Dirranbandi, Qld), Ruby McNiven (NSW), captain Clancy Knight (Narrabri, NSW), Mitchell Warmsley (Bunnan, NSW), Hugh Anderson (NSW) and Jacob Wilding (WA).