_ct1880x930.jpg "Cunningham club player Lauren Cant is one of two Queenslanders in the Australian polocrosse team headed to the World Cup in South Africa next month.")
Locals among Australian polocrosse team
TWO Queenslanders will be in the Australian polocrosse team which leaves Sydney on June 24 to prepare for the July 3-12 World Cup at Shongweni in South Africa.
The cup will be played by the top eight nations in the world, including Australia which won the first two cups and South Africa which won in the United Kingdom in 2011.
Cunningham club player Lauren Cant, who moved east from the Geraldton area of Western Australia last year, and Tansey star Trent Collins are the two Queensland-based players in the squad along with assistant coach Kent Wells from the Warwick club.
The team prepared for the trip to South Africa with two weekends of games against Polocrosse Association of Australia development teams at carnivals at Albury and Warwick in the past month.
In a break from the format for the first two World Cup at Morgan Park in Warwick, the cup in South Africa will be played over two successive weekends with games on three days each weekend. In Australia, games were played each day for a week.
Warwick will again be the host centre for the 2019 World Cup in April. But the Australian team is not even thinking about 2019 yet, their aim at present is to wrest back the cup from the South Africans.
