Striving to achieve what no woman has done before, Australian swim star Lani Pallister has warned her best is yet to come.
Freestyle ace Pallister has set her sights on becoming the first woman to claim 1500m gold at the Commonwealth Games, with the gruelling distance event to debut in Glasgow.
Pallister heads to her second Commonwealth Games after claiming the 400m, 800m, and 1500m races at Australia's trials in Sydney to be part of a 42-strong Dolphins squad.
The 24-year-old also secured her spot at the Pan Pacific championships in August and is striving to emulate mum and Olympic swimmer Janelle Pallister.
Janelle Pallister had won 1500m freestyle gold twice at the 1989 and 1991 Pan Pacific championships.
Should she fend off rivals Summer McIntosh and Katie Ledecky at the meet in California, the Pallisters will become the first mother-daughter swimming duo to win gold at the same Pan Pacific championships.
Lani Pallister admitted the allure of gold in California was stronger than the Games, given teenager McIntosh and Ledecky's absence in the pool.
Canada's three-time Olympic champion McIntosh has opted to skip Glasgow to prioritise the Pan Pacific championships, while the legendary Ledecky is American.
"The legacy with the Commonwealth Games and the media and how much attention that it gets for the Australian public is really special," Lani Pallister said.
"But my two biggest competitors are Katie and Summer, and I don't think Summer's racing Comm Games.
"I'd rather get second in a race that's really tight than win it, not that I plan on being second at Pan Pacs.
"I'm just excited to go and put in the training now for the next couple weeks, but also have it show at Pan Pacs.
"Because I don't think this week in the 400 and the 800 I showed what I'm capable of yet."
Pallister was in a league of her own at the six-day swim trials in Sydney, and blitzed the pack in the 1500m to touch in 15 minutes 40.01 seconds on the final day of competition.
She finished 30.58 seconds ahead of runner-up Tiana Kritzinger.
But the Sydney product described her week as "up and down", far from satisfied after coming close to bettering her national record of 15 minutes 39.14, set last year.
"I woke up sick - a little bit sick yesterday, so it was kind of just getting in, getting it done, ticking the box," Pallister said.
"Not that being sick's an excuse ... to be able to throw down a 15:40 feeling as poo as I do, I'm happy with that.
"If I was peaking here, I'd probably be a little bit worried going into Commies and Pan Pacs."
