| Personal information | |||||||||||||||||
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| Born | 24 May 2003 | ||||||||||||||||
| Playing position | Midfielder | ||||||||||||||||
| Club information | |||||||||||||||||
| Current club | Central [1] | ||||||||||||||||
| Senior career | |||||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | ||||||||||||||||
| 2022 | Maties | ||||||||||||||||
| 2023 | NWU Pukke | ||||||||||||||||
| 2024– | Central | ||||||||||||||||
| National team | |||||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Caps | Goals | ||||||||||||||
| 2023-present | South Africa U21 | 10 | (1) | ||||||||||||||
| 2022-present | South Africa | 13 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| 2022-present | South Africa Hockey5 | 4 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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| Last updated on: 14 January 2024 | |||||||||||||||||
Kayla Swarts (b. 24 May 2003) [2] is a South African field hockey and sevens player for the South African national team.
Swarts made her debut for the 2023 Junior Africa Cup in Ismailia [3] and 2023 Hockey Junior World Cup in Santiago. [4]
Swarts made her debut for the FIH Nations Cup in Valencia. [5] [6]
Between 2024, she represented the Springbok Women’s Sevens A team team in the Dubai 7s International tournaments. [7] [8]
She was living with her mother and father, Odessa Swarts (née Krause) [9] and Steven Swarts, in Bloemfontein. [10] Her brother, Wayde van Niekerk also is a South African track and field sprinter who competes in the 200 and 400 metres. [11] [12] [13] [14] She is the cousin of South African World Cup-winning rugby union and rugby sevens player Cheslin Kolbe. [15]
She attended Eunice High School. [16]
Grey College is a semi-private English & Afrikaans medium school for boys situated in the suburb of Universitas in Bloemfontein in the Free State province of South Africa, it is one of the 23 Milner Schools. The sister school is Eunice High School (Bloemfontein).
Pietie Coetzee-Turner is a field hockey player from South Africa who was born in Bloemfontein. she studied at the Rand Afrikaans University in Johannesburg, Gauteng, and represented her country at the 2000, 2004 and 2012 Summer Olympics.
Eunice High School is a girls' boarding school/day school located in Bloemfontein, South Africa. The language of instruction is English. In 2015 Eunice was recognised as the Top Performing Public School in South Africa.
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Cheslin Kolbe is a South African professional rugby union player who currently plays for Tokyo Sungoliath in the Japan Rugby League One and the South Africa national team. His regular position is wing, but he also plays at fullback. He has also recently featured at fly half for Toulouse in the Top 14, and as a scrum half internationally. Kolbe was a member of the South Africa Sevens team that won a bronze medal at the 2016 Summer Olympics. He has won the Rugby World Cup twice with South Africa, in 2019 and 2023. Kolbe was nominated for 2019 World Rugby Player of the Year but lost to teammate Pieter-Steph du Toit. He previously played for Toulouse, Toulon, Stormers, and Western Province. He has also won the Rugby Championship and the Lions Series with the Springboks, the Top14 and Champions Cup with Toulouse, the Currie Cup with Western Province, and the Challenge Cup with Toulon. He is one of the highest paid rugby players in the world, with a reported salary of between ¥130–155 million yen per season.
Wayde van Niekerk is a South African track and field sprinter who competes in the 200 and 400 metres. In the 400 metres, he is the current world and Olympic record holder, having set the record when he won the event at the 2016 Olympics.
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The 2023 Junior Africa Cup will be an international field hockey competition held from 12 to 16 March 2023 in Ismailia, Egypt.
The South Africa women's national field hockey team represents South Africa in international indoor hockey matches and tournaments.
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