Rubro-negras qualify for the Brazilian Youth and Junior Artistic Swimming Team
Check out the results of the second stage of the National Artistic Swimming Selection
By Romulo Paranhos - inOnce again, the Brazilian Artistic Swimming Team will be predominantly red and black. This is because numerous athletes from the Mais Querido team have once again qualified to make up the national teams in the categories Youth and Junior teams of the sport, who will participate in several competitions throughout the year. The second stage of the National Selection took place at the Maria Lenk Aquatic Park, in Barra da Tijuca (RJ), last Friday (25), and defined the last classified players who will defend the colors of Brazil this season.
In the second phase, five more Flamengo players secured their spots. In the Junior category, Júllia Catharino, Jaddy Portela, Rebecca Rodrigues, and Manuella de Menezes achieved the necessary points and secured their spots in the Brazilian squad. In the Youth category, Ana Clara Almeida performed well and secured her spot.
It is worth remembering that in the first stage of the selection, held in December last year together with the Brazilian Championship, nine red-black athletes were selected for the Senior Team: Maria Clara Lobo, Giovana Stephan, Lorena Molinos, Laura Miccuci, Maria Eduarda Miccuci, Gabriela Regly, Júllia Catharino, Rebecca Rodrigues and Renan Alcântara.
The Brazilian National Team's first competition will be the French Open Artistic Swimming, which takes place from February 28th to March 3rd in France. Júllia Catharino and Rebecca Rodrigues will not be competing in Europe, as they are both also on the Junior team and will be training hard for the South American Championships in April in Chile.
The artistic swimming teams of Clube de Regatas do Flamengo rely on resources from their sponsors – Banco Bonsucesso, Furnas, Estácio, LafargeHolcim/Cimento Mauá, EY – via the Federal Incentive Law/Ministry of Sports (IR), in addition to support from the Brazilian Confederation of Clubs (CBC) resulting from the decentralization of resources originating from the Pelé Law.