The TAS Swimming Club's Dream Team members enter this week's National Age Championships with their eyes on the biggest prizes in the sport.

The Far Northern under-14 girls medley relay team Hollie Petty-Richardson, Tarni Fisher, Danica Ziviani and Kotuku Ngawati enters the meet with the Queensland title and high expectations.

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Butterflyer Petty-Richardson said the group had vowed to do personal bests to ensure a good result.

"We have high expectations," she said.

"Individually I would like to swim as close to 1.08 as possible."

Like many at the Age Championships, Petty-Richardson hopes to one day swim at an Olympic Games.

She is one of eight swimmers making the trip to Brisbane to represent the TAS club.

The relay team will be joined by 16-year-old backstroker Jessie Clements-Markham, 13-year-old fellow backstroker Jack Gerrard, 16-year-old long distance freestyler Bogdan Urichianu and 14-year-old freestyle sprinter Connor McKiernan.

Team manager Valmay Fisher said she hoped the team’s performance would lift the profile of swimming in the region.

"We have a lot of good swimmers who don’t get recognised," she said.

"It is hard to get promotion in a hard sport.

"Swimmers often make it to age championship level but we want more to go on further."

The team is under the watchful eye of TAS swimming director Michael Ursel.

"Nationals are nationals, it is hard to predict results," he said.

"If we perform up to our seedings we should be able to come back with a stack of medals.

"What colour they are I can’t know – it is entirely up to the swimmers."

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