Local swimmer Ashton Volkwyn cut her teeth with Team Watersmart Aquatics and is presently coached by David Hugh Glover from the Infinity Swimming Academy in Port Elizabeth.
Earlier today Ashton swam to a Gold medal in the 50m Breaststroke, touching the wall in a fast 36.73 seconds ahead of Botswana’s Ruvarashe Gondo in 37.00 and Swaziland’s Nadia Volschank in 37.29. Volkwyn is currently representing South Africa at the CANA Zone championships in Malawi.
Ashton’s time is faster than the 37.36 seconds she swam at the South African National Short Course Swimming championship in Durban on 10 August 2017.
UPDATE: On Thursday 22 March 2018 Ashton Volkwyn swum to ONE MORE Gold in the 200 meter Breaststroke in a time of 4:35.
UPDATE 2: On Friday 23 March Ashton Volkwyn continued her dominance of the event by swimming to Gold in the 100 meter Breaststroke.
During February this year the former Girl Head of Francis House at St George’s Preparatory School and Pearson High School pupil was chosen as part of the South African Swimming team to swim in Malawi in March 2018. This after nearly two seasons of injury disappointment, two knee operations and three months of no training.
In addition to representing South Africa at swimmimg Ashton has represented Eastern Province at swimming and biathlon.
Sporting genes run deep in the family as Ashton’s uncle is Yazeed Leroux, Fairview Rovers player and coach and author of ‘The Colours That Never Fade’ – a history of Fairview Rover’s footballing legends.
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