Portrait shot of Hope Chmiel

Hope Chmiel

Swimming

  1. Grantee | August 2023

Hope has represented NZ at the Australasian State Champs in 2019 and Pan Pacific Champs in Hawaii in 2022. She holds a NZ record and has won numerous NZ and Canterbury titles. Now 17, Hope has been competing since she was 9. This Grant will help her swim for NZ at the Youth Commonwealth Games at Trinidad Tobago as the next step to swimming at the Paris Olympics 2024.