You might not be an SA champ or compete in a Diamond League, but read this and learn how important you can be to someone else. If you are just the best in your school or you only have provincial colours, remember that there is always someone looking up to you. That person watches and…

The same year 2012 during the school athletics I tried out the 400m and 800m breaking both school records running a 51.50 in the 400m and a 1.58.40 in the 800m. I ended up at the Western Province Championship where I got 4th in the finals for both my events . I didn’t make the team but also didn’t give up. The following year 2013 when I was in grade 11 I kept on training and running hard. With the support of my parents I kept pushing and pushing trying to improve my times. What also pushed me to do better was competing against top athletes in the province and seeing them be successful made me also want to be successful.