Clare & Jillian on NZ Olympic team

The New Zealand Olympic committee named the Tall Ferns Olympic team today for Beijing 2008, and both Clare and Jillian made the final cut! Here's the full story and a brief report from Radio New Zealand that highlights Clare and Jillian. The team faces a really tough Olympic schedule. Only their first game should be an easy one -- against Mali on August 9. Then they will play Spain, China, Czech Republic and the USA. Before that the Ferns are playing a "domestic series" in July (no details published) and an unspecified pre-Olympic tournament in China