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The South African accomplishes all of this despite being a student-athlete with a hearing impairment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeggy&#8217;s is an inspirational story, and it&#8217;s been an incredible learning opportunity for our team to see her focus every day on the opportunities that she has rather than what she doesn&#8217;t have,\u201d UWF swimming and diving head coach <strong>Andrew Hancock<\/strong> said.<\/p>\n<p>de Villiers will be representing South Africa at the 2015 World Deaf Swimming Championships on August 17-22 in San Antonio, Texas.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGetting chosen to represent your country at any level or event is always such an honor,\u201d de Villiers said. \u201cI think anyone put in my position would be proud of something like that. I\u2019ve been representing South Africa for ten years now but every time I am selected I am just humbled by being selected and afforded the opportunity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The South Africa native sees this opportunity as a chance to unify hearing-impaired athletes and to give them an opportunity to race.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hmDyux5IKyM\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen you go to this meet you see all these people that are dealing with the same thing you are,\u201d de Villiers said. \u201cWhen you are standing on the block and getting ready to race you feel like everyone has the equal chance that you do.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>de Villiers will be entering her senior year this fall for the Argonauts and will go into the season as one of the top sprinters in all of NCAA Division II.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think in preparing for this meet it puts me a couple steps ahead of everyone else heading into my senior year,\u201d de Villiers said. \u201cIn a typical season you build yourself up into good racing condition but I\u2019ll be going into the season already conditioned and ready to get down to some good racing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><i>The above article is a press release submitted to Swimming World. 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