Lily Campbell has been selected to join an elite international team known as the Skills Squad after winning gold at the recent WorldSkills Australia 2016 National Competition.

Ms Campbell, a beauty therapy student at Wagga TAFE, will spend the next year training with a dedicated skills mentor, vying for the opportunity to join more than 1000 young men and women from 75 countries at the WorldSkills International Competition in Abu Dhabi next October.

WorldSkills Australia CEO Brett Judd said the 2017 Skills Squad has the highest female representation in the competition’s history.

“Our recent national competition was a wonderful demonstration of the strengths of Australia’s vocational training system,” he said.

“I can’t wait to see what these young men and women achieve on the international stage.”