Youth Ready for African Champs

Written by Forever Marketing

Thursday, 24 December 2009 13:04

Swimming SA’s youth brigade will be looking to get the 2010 aquatics season off to a winning start, when they compete in the CANA Zone 3 & 4 Championships in Nairobi, Kenya from January 8-10.

The bar of success has been set high following the SA junior team’s medal haul of 50 gold, 25 silver and 23 bronze at the CANA African Junior Championships held in Mauritius in October, and the newly-selected group of teenage swimmers will be out to prove that they too can hold their heads high in the best in their respective age groups on the African swimming scene.

In wishing the national team the best of luck for the African competition in Nairobi, Swimming SA CEO Shaun Adriaanse said: “SA’s junior age group swimmers have always done well at CANA galas on our continent and I have no doubt that the current team members will not only be able to secure several medals for our country at the event in January, but will entrench themselves as talent that can be further nurtured for even greater honours at higher levels of swimming in years to come.”

The Female SA team:

13 & 14 years:

Rashieda Ahmed (WP) 200 & 400m freestyle, 50, 100 & 200m breaststroke
Ashleigh Samuels (WP) 50, 100, 200 & 400m freestyle, 100m butterfly
Laeeqah Bulbulia (CGA) 50m freestyle, 50 & 100m backstroke
Kelleigh Nelson (EP) 200m backstroke, 50, 100 & 200m breaststroke, 50m butterfly, 200m individual medley
Kirstie Engelke (EP) 100m freestyle, 50, 100 & 200m backstroke, 50 & 100m butterfly, 200m individual medley

15 & 16 years:

Saskia Ramdhani (KZ) 50 & 100m freestyle, 50m butterfly
Michelle Nieuwstad (WP) 100, 200 & 400m freestyle, 100 & 200m backstroke, 100 & 200m breaststroke, 200m individual medley
Meghan Todd (LP) 50m freestyle, 50, 100 & 200m backstroke, 50m breaststroke, 100m butterfly
Lalecia Kotze (KZ) 200 & 400m freestyle, 50m backstroke, 50 & 100m breaststroke, 50 & 100m butterfly, 200m individual medley