London 2012 Olympics: Text message brings Games dream one step closer Together with her partner Rebecca Gallantree, 26, she will compete in the synchronised springboard dive. Alicia told The Sunday Telegraph: "It's the most incredible feeling in the world, to be chosen to compete in the Olympics. Winning a medal would be the most awesome thing ever, but we're just going to go out there and give it our all. To reach this stage has required a fair deal of sacrifice. Her tough training schedule - three hours after school every week day and a full day's diving and weight training every Saturday - means missing out on the parties and hanging out with friends that other girls her age take for granted. On the day the squad was due to be announced, Alicia brought her phone in to school and left it in her head of year's office. It was only when the Year 10 pupil went to check it during a break that she was able to read the message from her mother, telling her she had been picked. When that text message came through, Alicia knew it had all been worth it. "All that hard work has got me to the Olympics," she said. I don't mind giving up on things to get where I am now. She is the second-youngest member of Team GB, only five days older than gymnast Rebecca Tunney, the youngest member. For one so young Alicia is already an experienced competitor, having been to the Commonwealth Games in Delhi in 2010 - where, aged only 13, she came fourth in the synchronised dive, but still cried with disappointment - and the World Championships in Shanghai last year. Now her mother Helen, 43, a nursery nurse, her father John, 44, a Royal Mail driver, and her 13-year-old brother are preparing to travel to the Olympic Park in London to witness her latest challenge. Mrs Blagg said: "I've told her to make the most of the experience. She's done all the hard work and now it's time for her to enjoy it. After London she'll start preparing for the Games in Rio, when she'll only be 19. But, win or lose, we've always raised her to keep her feet on the ground. Alicia did her bit to inspire a new generation of young athletes when she visited her old primary school to show off her new Team GB kit and reflect on the excitement to come. She said: "I'm going to be so nervous about competing in front of millions of people watching on TV, but I'm so happy too. The atmosphere is going to be electric.