BOURNEMOUTH-based Beth Aitchison will be joining fellow Dorset record holder Jay Lelliott at Millfield next week after being selected for British Swimming’s breaststroke training camp.

As reported last week, Swim Bournemouth 18-year-old Lelliott will be training alongside Olympic swimmers after being named as one of 16 chosen for the butterfly camp.

Sixteen-year-old Aitchison’s selection follows her bronze medal in the 100m breaststroke and fourth place in the 200m at last month’s National Youth Championships in Sheffield.

Like Lelliott, the Bournemouth Collegiate School swimmer will be in good company at Millfield from September 18-21.

The coach is Plymouth Leander’s Jon Rudd, who had eight swimmers in last month’s World Championships and coached Lithuanian Ruta Meilutyte to the Olympic 100m breaststroke title in London and two world records in Barcelona.

Other breaststrokers selected for the camp include Olympic silver medallist Michael Jamieson and finalist Andrew Willis, fellow London 2012 Olympians Stacey Tadd and Craig Benson, world championship swimmer Ross Murdoch, former European junior champion Molly Renshaw, and Sophie Taylor, who last month won silver behind Meilutyte’s gold at the World Junior Championships.

Aitchison said: “I was really surprised to get the letter – and when I saw who else was on the list, I just thought, ‘Wow!’ “I’m particularly excited about being coached Jon Rudd, who coaches the Olympic champion.”

Aitchison is also one of three local swimmers selected for the England South team at this weekend’s multi-sport Sainsbury’s UK School Games in Sheffield.

She will be making her debut in this event and expects to swim the 100 and 200m breaststroke and medley relay.

Also heading for Ponds Forge are her BCS team-mate Alice Tai, 14, who will swim in the multi-disability events, and 16-year-old Dan Speers, who won two golds and a bronze in last year’s event in the Olympic pool.

It will be Poole-coached national youth silver medallist Speers’ first outing since he moved to Millfield School last weekend.

Dad John Speers said: “It was not an easy decision to leave Poole. Robin (Armayan, head coach) has done so much for Daniel.

“We were concerned at how he would be able to balance swimming with his studies so have taken the decision that constraints on his time will be easier at Millfield.”