Curro sport stars’ blood, sweat and tears rewarded
Curro Nelspruit announced its top athletes of the year during the school's annual sport awards ceremony last week.
Amber Greeff received the senior sportswoman of the year trophy, while Temilton Njabula won the senior sportsman of the year title.
The 17-year-old Amber played first team hockey and she was part of the girls’ first team cricket. She received national colours for clay pigeon shooting, in which she took the silver medal at the national champs.
Amber represented Curro at the annual Curro Holdings interhigh meeting.
Temilton represented his school in sevens and first team rugby. At the Mpumalanga Athletic championships he received a gold medal, whereafter he competed at the South African Junior Championships and the South African School Champs. He placed outside the top 10 in both meetings.
When Tiaan van der Walt, a grade 12 pupil, started at Curro, it was clear that this teen was born for squash. He won the first league Lowveld squash open, played in the Mpumalanga squash open and won the tournament for the eighth time in a row. As a result, he was presented with the extramural sports trophy of the year.
Tiaan also played at the SA Champs where he placed second in the country and he was in action in the South African open u/19 tournament where he came out tops.
