Australia Announces
Youth World Cup Team

After a magnificent Australian Junior Darts Championships played in Latrobe Tasmania back in January, darts players Brie Peters and Dwayne Seabourne have been selected to represent Australia in the Youth Team at the World Cup in Perth from September 28th - October 1st 2005.

Peters, (left) the very talented 14-year-old from Toowoomba Queensland will be the sole representative from Australia in the Girl's Youth Singles, and will partner Dwayne Seabourne in the Teams Event at the World Cup.

Peters has been the talking point of Australian darts for the last fifteen months. At the age of thirteen years she won the Australian Junior Singles and Youth Masters titles in under 18 years competition. She was selected in the 2004 Queensland Senior Team where she was named Rookie of the Year at those Senior Australian Championships in Canberra. She placed second in the internationally ranked 2004 Pacific Masters, which included the top eight female players from every Australian State and Territory. She again won the Singles title at the Australian Junior Darts Championships in 2005 and recently won the Queensland Closed Singles title in Maryborough and the QDA Zone One in Brisbane a few weeks ago. She is an exceptional talent for some one so young and has the opportunity to represent Australia at another two Youth World Cups in the future.

Australian darts and I'm sure world darts will be hearing the name Brie Peters for many years to come. She has only been playing for three years yet she has ambitions to play in England and Europe in the future, but she will be finishing school at Harristown State High first.

Joining Peters in Perth is young Devonport Tasmania darts player Dwayne Seabourne (left). The 16 year old Seabourne had a great week at his third representation for Tasmania at Junior Championships managing to be a finalist in all of the individual events, Australian Boy's Singles, Australian Boy's Doubles and Australian Youth Masters. Unfortunately in 2005 Seabourne was defeated in each of these events by Kyle Anderson, 2003 World Cup Champion. Anderson will be over the 18 years age limit when the World Cup comes around later in the year. Seabourne was able to push Anderson in all of their events so the prospects are looking exciting for Seabourne when representing Australia. Seabourne is the first Tasmanian Youth Player to represent Australia at international level.

When told by the President of the Darts Federation of Australia Mr Allan Hutchinson on Saturday, Seabourne was on his way home from cricket. It did not really set in to him that he was to represent Australia until his Team Captain at the Australian Junior Darts Championship in Latrobe in Robbie Walker rang him a couple of minutes later and told him to pull off the road for a few minutes and realize what he had been told.

Australia also named two reserves for the Team. For the Youth Girl's South Australian Simone Keogh (left) was selected. She had a fantastic 2005 Australian Junior Darts Championships finishing off the week with the Australian Girl's Youth Masters Title. They also named Robert Carpanoni (below) as the Boy's Youth Team reserve. The 15-year-old rookie at this year's junior championship made a big impact. He pushed Kyle Anderson to the absolute limit in the semi finals of the Australian Youth Singles and won the Mixed Doubles with Patricia Gary.

Australia has the strongest tradition of producing World Champions. Australia has come away with a new World Champion in youth competition from every World Cup that has been contested around the world. There are three titles on offer at each World Cup, Boy's Youth Singles, Girl's Youth Singles and the Youth Teams Event. Australia has won at least one or more of these titles at each World Cup.