Alessia McCaig (cycling) will make her Commonwealth Games debut after netting a swag of junior Australian and Oceania sprinting records and titles over the past four years. She took up cycling when nine and joined the Bendigo and District Cycling Club on a hand-me-down bike from her older brother Connor. McCaig cites the Junior Nationals Track Championships in 2017 as a major inspiration after she finished fourth in a number of events. Since then, she has been a fixture on the podium She was last year handed a scholarship by the Australian Sporting Hall of Fame and is being mentored by Olympic and Commonwealth Games gold medal-winning diver Matthew Mitcham.