The results have flowed for high jumper Rosie Tozer this summer.
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A gold medal at the NSW Junior Championships, bronze at the NSW Open Championships, a third place and new personal best at the Sydney Track Classic.
Now, there's one more event she has to conquer, the upcoming Australian Athletics Championships.
Tozer claimed a silver medal at last year's Australian Championships and this year she's hoping to go one better.
"I'm feeling good, my training's going well and I've done a couple of good comps lately, which is good," Tozer said. "I'm just really hoping to medal and get up near my PB, or get a new PB.
"A gold medal is the goal, but anything can happen on the day and just focusing on what I jump, instead of other people, will hopefully help me get the best result."
Tozer rivals the top opens high jumpers in the country. This season, just three Australian women have jumped higher than her clearance of 1.82 metres at the Sydney Track Classic.
The 16-year-old credits her successful season to a quality off-season which has allowed her to take her jumping to new heights.
"I had a really good off-season last year and that's just helped me build into the on-season and keep training well."
A member of the Athletics NSW Target Talent Program, Tozer has had the opportunity to learn from Australia's current top female high jumper, Nicola McDermott.
A Commonwealth Games medalist, McDermott has provided Tozer with guidance about how to prepare for elite competition.
"She's come along and told us about her experiences at World Championships. Doing more competitions with her, I've got a better relationship with her.
"She's spoken about how in the younger years it's important to just take everything as it comes and learn from every experience.
"She said how she was able to prepare for competitions by trialing different strategies and now that she's built a good preparation routine, she's been able to jump higher heights."
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