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South African athletes have been given a stronger voice within Swimming SA (SSA) with the launch of a more inclusive Athletes’ Committee (AC) headed by swimming legend Penny Heyns<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/u><\/u><\/p>\n

The athletes’ committee consists of eight athletes representing artistic swimming, swimming, water polo, masters swimming, disability swimming, open water swimming and diving.<\/u><\/u><\/u>\u00a0<\/u><\/p>\n

The committee comprises of athletes that are actively competing at the highest level including London 2012 Olympic champion Cameron van der Burgh<\/strong>, Commonwealth Games double gold medallist Tatjana Schoenmaker<\/strong> and Open Water 5km world champion Chad Ho<\/strong>.<\/u><\/u><\/p>\n

Heyns, who is the only woman in history to win both the 100m and 200m breaststroke gold medals at the Olympics following her double at the 1996 Atlanta Games, is also the chair of the FINA Athletes Committee and a member of the FINA Bureau.<\/u><\/u><\/u>\u00a0<\/u><\/p>\n

\u201cIt started from the FINA committee where we strongly urged all national federations to have an athletes\u2019 committee.\u201d Heyns said.<\/u><\/u><\/p>\n

She explained that the purpose of the committee is to give athletes a platform where they can give their input and bring their concerns to the governing body and the executive committee.<\/u><\/u><\/u>\u00a0<\/u><\/p>\n

\u201cSSA firmly encouraged the establishment of this athletes\u2019 committee, there have been very small ones in the past but this is the first time we have a collective group that represents every single discipline (Artistic Swimming, Platform and Springboard Diving, Open Water Swimming, Swimming and Water Polo) \u00a0within Swimming South Africa,\u201d<\/u><\/u><\/p>\n

Heyns said she was inspired by the enthusiasm from the members of the newly formed committee and the contribution they want to make in making aquatics one of the leading sports in the country.\u00a0<\/u><\/u><\/p>\n

\u201cThe first thing and probably the most important step which we embarked on was to have our first meeting.\u00a0 We had the President Mr. Alan Fritz<\/strong> and \u00a0CEO Mr. Shaun Adriaanse<\/strong> in the meeting and the purpose was for the athletes to get to know them and voice their opinions.\u00a0 There were already some productive discussions that took place and some really good ideas that came from the athletes on what Swimming South Africa can do for the other disciplines.\u201d<\/u><\/u><\/p>\n

Heyns said it was important to give other disciplines like artistic swimming and diving a seat at the table.\u00a0 \u201cIt is something quite sensitive about whether it is at an international or local level, we as swimmers have to curb ourselves in terms of our language to recognise there are other disciplines,\u201d Heyns said.<\/u><\/u><\/p>\n

\u201cWe need to find a way to support and many of those disciplines have not had a voice in the past within the athlete committee.\u201d\u00a0<\/u><\/u><\/p>\n

She said although there had traditionally been a disconnect between the athletes and the governing body there was a shift towards giving the sport\u2019s biggest assets greater say at an executive level.<\/u><\/u><\/p>\n

\u201cThe disconnect between athletes and governing bodies is a problem for federations both nationally and internationally,\u201d Heyns said.<\/u><\/u><\/p>\n

\u201cThere has been a strong push in every area from a WADA perspective or within international federations where the athlete’s body has a stronger role within the federation.\u201d<\/u><\/u><\/p>\n

Heyns said their aim would be to effectively engage with the athlete communities within the various codes both in terms of representing needs as well as information dissemination.\u00a0 It is important that the athletes know about us and find a way where they can engage with us so that we can represent them to the decision-making bodies,\u201d Heyns said.<\/u><\/u><\/p>\n

\u201cFor so long athletes have been used to keeping quiet, just go and perform and don\u2019t say too much.\u00a0 An important role we can fulfill is the communication between the athletes and the coaches. It is not really our role to represent the coaches to SSA but perhaps there is a gap for that as well.\u201d Heyns said a number of initiatives are in the pipeline which will serve to encourage investment in the sport as well as build the image of SSA.<\/u><\/u><\/p>\n

SSA Athletes’ Committee:\u00a0<\/b><\/u><\/u><\/p>\n

Penny Heyns (AC chair), Laura Strugnell (artistic swimming), Cameron van der Burgh (swimming), Tatjana Schoenmaker (swimming), Kelsey White (water polo), Lwazi Madi (water polo), Alani Ferreira (disability swimming), Karen Kennedy (masters), Chad Ho (open water), Stefan Steenkamp (diving).<\/p>\n

The above press release was posted by Swimming World in conjunction with Swimming South Africa<\/i>. For press releases and advertising inquiries please contact<\/i>Advertising@SwimmingWorld.com<\/i><\/b>.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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