mangaluru a delegation of five australian swimmers participated in a 12day camp organised at varanashi organic farms in bantwal in association with the karnataka swimming association and puttur aquatic club pac recently highperformance coach and aquatic educator partha varanashi said the purpose of the camp was to help connect indian swimmers with australian swimmers by making them stay and train together develop sporting relationships and nurture friendshipsthe camp was led by partha varanashi and niroop who is currently working as a development coach in hc swim club tasmania rachel brennemo national and target coach hc swim club represented the tasmanian swimmers the swimmers who attended the camp are lara pederson 15 tessa yu 20 christopher allie 25 jessalyn potter 17 and daniel shilcock 16 they are members of hc swim club tasmania australia founder president of glenmark aquatic foundation and mentor anand desai life saving sports coach rohith and development coach deekshit were the other trainers physio strength and conditioning session by dr sai kiran yoga sessions by abharana kakkal and carolyn simon and pottery class by tasmayi bhagmane were held an interaction with indias ace swimmer siva shridhar from bac bengaluru was the highlight swimmers of the puttur aquatic club and other clubs also attended the camp the swimmers parents and pac members went out of their way to ensure that the tasmanian swimmers felt at home sushanth shetty from m sanjeev shetty store sponsored a pair of south indian traditional clothes designed by his sister namratha shwetha an artist designed mandala art mementoes neethi rai from pac taught them bollywood steps and prathima hegde hosted the team at puttur a cultural evening was also arranged the team toured mysuru hassan and other places they also went surfing at the tannir bavi beach