Emma McKeon on her way to winning the Women's 100m Butterfly final at the national titles. Source: Gregg Porteous / News Corp Australia
EMMA McKeon was Australia's golden girl from Glasgow and now the teen star is determined to showcase her enormous potential on the world stage.
Four gold and two bronze medals stamped McKeon as Australia's hottest young swim star of 2014 but behind her bright smile there is an intense determination to ensure her career trajectory only keeps rising on the path to 2016 Rio Olympics.
For McKeon that means maintaining her domestic dominance in individual races, particularly her pet event the 200m freestyle which starts at Sydney Olympic Park today.
"I've still got big goals I want to achieve," McKeon said.
"Obviously I want to make the Olympic team next year, I hope to be on the podium."
The 18-year-old is the Commonwealth champion in the 200m freestyle and it is clearly her best hope of individual glory over the next two years.
Don't let her smile fool you. McKeon is ready to make huge waves in the pool. Source: News Corp Australia
But if McKeon has her way she will maintain much of the multi-event program that she excelled with in Scotland now that she knows she can handle the high workload in training and competition.
"This year I've got the hang of it, I now know how to rest up a bit better and am feeling much fresher," McKeon said.
McKeon and her coach Vince Raleigh have worked closely with sports science staff to analyse and reassess her technique in both freestyle and butterfly, wary that her increasing strength from gym needs to be reflected in her stroke.
She has implemented subtle changes this year, nothing that would be noticeable to the untrained eye, but something which may improve her performance even further.
"I've done a bit of changing to my stroke freestyle and butterfly so hopefully I can swim faster with it," she said.
"It comes with the strength as well, as I've got stronger with the gym work it improves as well."
In other heats starting this morning 400m champ Mack Horton will be near unbeatable in the 800m freestyle as he sets up a likely 400-800-1500m race program for Russia's world titles while Grant Irvine will start favourite in the 200m butterfly.
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