FORMER Kelly College swimmer Cameron Brodie is set for a busy summer ahead, graduating from his masters degree at university before heading to Chinese Taipei for the World University Games.

Held biennially in major cities across the globe, the World University Games sees athletes come together to compete across numerous sports with the Summer Universiade the second largest multi-sport event after the Olympics.

Formerly a pupil at Kelly College in Tavistock, this is Brodie’s second selection for the Games and this time he is one of almost 10,000 participants, from more than 170 countries expected to compete from August 19 to 30.

It has been a promising few months for the 24-year-old, including recording his fastest time in the 200m butterfly for several years at the British Swimming Champion-ships in April.

Now the Stirling University sports management student has completed his masters and can throw himself fully into training as he aims to achieve the Commonwealth Games qualification time in Asia.

He said: ‘My training is really heavy at the moment and will be for the next couple of months, then two or three weeks before the Games it will start to ease down to let my body recover from all that.

‘It’s hard to balance the training, masters and try and have some sort of a social life as well, but having done it for four years for my undergrad and last year as well, I’ve become quite experienced at it.’

Brodie, originally from Aberdeenshire, will take part in 100m and 200m butterfly as part of Team GBR’s largest delegation at the Games since 2011, with over 110 athletes set to compete across 13 sports.

Olympic champion Jessica Ennis-Hill and London 2012 bronze-medal winning gymnast Beth Tweddle have both participated in the World University Games and for Brodie it is the biggest event he has been involved in so far.

Cameron said: ‘It’s enormous to be involved in such a big event, I’m lucky enough to have been at a couple of Commonwealth Games and the WUGs are bigger than them.

‘The 2015 Games in Gwangju were a lot of fun and I swam well and in Chinese Taipei I’m looking to go and bring back medals.

‘It’s a lot of fun catching up with the other GB athletes as well as the American ones, it’s sociable and quite relaxed.

‘Chinese Taipei is probably somewhere I wouldn’t have gone had it not been for this competition.

‘The previous Games in South Korea were incredible and it was one of the best venues I’ve ever been to for a competition, so I’m really looking forward to this in Chinese Taipei – it sounds wonderfully exotic really.‘

British Universities and Colleges Sport is the national governing body for Higher Education sport in the UK, organising leagues and competitions for more than 150 institutions across 52 different sports. More than 110 athletes will represent the GB team at the 29th FISU Summer World University Games 2017 from 19-30 August.