Kayla Swarts
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| Born | 24 May 2003 Bloemfontein. South Africa | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 178 cm (5 ft 10 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 71 kg (157 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Field hockey | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Position | Midfielder | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | Central[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Kayla Swarts (born 24 May 2003)[2] is a South African field hockey and sevens player for the South African national team.
Career
[edit]Field hockey
[edit]Under–21
[edit]Swarts made her debut for the 2023 Junior Africa Cup in Ismailia[3] and 2023 Hockey Junior World Cup in Santiago.[4]
National team
[edit]Swarts made her debut for the FIH Nations Cup in Valencia.[5][6]
In 2024 she will become an Olympian, representing South Africa at the XXXIII Olympic Games in Paris.[7][8]
Rugby union
[edit]National sevens team
[edit]Between 2024, she represented the Springbok Women’s Sevens A team team in the Dubai 7s International tournaments.[9][10] The 2025 World Rugby Sevens Challenger Series represented the Springbok Women’s Sevens team.[11]
Personal life
[edit]She was living with her mother and father, Odessa Swarts (née Krause)[12] and Steven Swarts, in Bloemfontein.[13] Her brother, Wayde van Niekerk also is a South African track and field sprinter who competes in the 200 and 400 metres.[14][15][16][17] She is the cousin of South African World Cup-winning rugby union and rugby sevens player Cheslin Kolbe.[18]
She attended Eunice High School.[19]
References
[edit]- ↑ @kayla.swarts; (31 March 2024). "Central girlies" – via Instagram.
- ↑ "FIH Hockey Women's Nations Cup Spain 2022 - Teams". FIH.
- ↑ "South African Women's U21 team named for the African Qualifier". SA Hockey Association. Retrieved 28 February 2023.
- ↑ "SA Hockey U21 Women named for Junior World Cup". SA Hockey Association. Retrieved 27 September 2023.
- ↑ "Team Details – South Africa". tms.fih.ch. International Hockey Federation. Retrieved 26 December 2022.
- ↑ "SOUTH AFRICAN WOMEN'S HOCKEY SQUADS HAVE BEEN SELECTED". sasportspress.co.za. SA Sports Press. Retrieved 26 December 2022.
- ↑ "Team South Africa Hockey teams named for the Paris Olympic Games". sahockey.co.za. South African Hockey Association. 19 June 2024. Retrieved 20 June 2024.
- ↑ Lemke, Gary (19 June 2024). "Second group of Team SA athletes for Paris named". TeamSA. Retrieved 20 June 2024.
- ↑ "SA Sevens' future on display with 'A'-sides in Dubai". SA Rugby. Retrieved 22 November 2024.
- ↑ "Wayde van Niekerk's sister heads to Dubai Sevens". rugby365.com. Retrieved 22 November 2024.
- ↑ "Swarts, Willemse named in Bok Women Sevens squad for Challenger opener". SA Rugby. Retrieved 19 February 2025.
- ↑ du Plessis, Clement. "How Wayde's mom blazed the trail for her son". News24. Retrieved 22 August 2023.
- ↑ Wayde's Olympic glory: what his parents have to say Archived 24 January 2018 at the Wayback Machine, IOL
- ↑ Abrahams, Celine (7 June 2020). "gsport4girls - Kayla Swarts Running Her Own Race". gsport4girls. Retrieved 12 March 2023.
- ↑ Jager, Johann de. "Wayde se suster haal SA vrouehokkiespan". Netwerk24 (in Afrikaans). Retrieved 13 March 2023.
- ↑ Piek, Morgan (22 August 2016). "Wayde's family arrives back in Bloem". Bloemfontein Courant. Retrieved 22 August 2023.
- ↑ de Villiers, Ockert (12 January 2024). "Wayde van Niekerk and sister set to share Olympic stage at Paris 2024". Olympics.
- ↑ Roberts, Cheryl. "Wayde van Niekerk and Cheslin Kolbe are both products of champion parents". Cape Argus.
- ↑ "Two Eunice ladies in SA U21 hockey team Congratulations to Kayla Swarts (2021) … – Eunice High School". Archived from the original on 13 March 2023. Retrieved 13 March 2023.
External links
[edit]- Kayla Swarts at the International Hockey Federation
- Kayla Swarts at the South African Hockey Association
- Kayla Swarts at Olympics.com
- Kayla Swarts at Olympedia
- Kayla Swarts at Springbok Women's Sevens
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