Of all his achievements in his sporting career, Kyle Chalmers is most proud of winning silver in the 100m freestyle in 2021.
Things could have been very different had his Zoom meeting with Geelong a few months earlier played out another way.
Chalmers injured his shoulder in 2020 and spent his rehab running and “kicking the footy”, having been a prolific junior footballer in Adelaide.
As he told Mark Howard on The Howie Games, it then progressed enough to prompt a two-hour Zoom meeting with then-Geelong talent ID manager Troy Selwood…
WHEN KYLE CHALMERS MET WITH GEELONG:
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