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The 2022 Sunshine Ladies Tour is here and let's get to know more about the South African professional golfer, Zethu Myeki. In this episode, she takes us through how she fell in love with the game of golf, why is it important to be part of the GolfRSA as an amateur, what makes the Sunshine Ladies Tour so unique and her long term career goals.

In 2021, Myeki completed the Sunshine Ladies Tour season ranked 25th on the Investec Order of Merit Rankings.

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Gerard Kemp of Strandfontein AFC in Cape Town, once said Thalea Smidt is a role model of what can be achieved with commitment and hard work.

In this episode, Smidt discloses how much could injuries affect your mental health as an athlete, what keeps her motivated. She also took us on a life of a student-athlete and how it has shaped shared and most importantly, sent words of thanks to the Strandfontein community.

That concludes our interview series with the Mamelodi Sundowns Ladies central midfielder.

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Welcome to our quick-fire questions segment.

Let us get to know more about Mamelodi Sundowns central midfielder, Thalea Smidt, as she tells us about other sporting codes that she played in primary and high school, her style of play, roommate at the CAF Women’s Champions League. She also highlights what she wishes she could have achieved with UWC Women’s Football.

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Let us talk about a life of a footballer, on and off the pitch matters. This week, we chat with Thalea Smidt who joined Mamelodi Sundowns Ladies in 2021 while having played for Sasol League teams such as TuksFootball, UWC Women's Football.

In this episode, she shares her love story for football, the importance of youth development in women's football and takes us through the winning of the 2021 CAF Women’s Champions League.

DID YOU KNOW? Smidt holds four qualifications: • BSc Biotechnology (UWC) • BSc (Hons) Plant Sciences (UP-Tuks) • Postgraduate Diploma in Digital Innovation (UP-Tuks) • Postgraduate Diploma in Entrepreneurship (UP-Tuks).

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And that is a wrap of our interview series with NWU Hockey player, Mathapelo Christa Ramasimong. In conclusion, she answers questions from our Sports Mvt online community sharing the ups and downs of being a student-athlete, the importance of mental health and shares tips for staying on top of your game.

Christa also discloses her closest friend at NWU Hockey and Bianca Wood as the funniest in the national team set up.

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Now it is time for our quick-fire questions with Mathapelo Christa Ramasimong.

In this episode, she reveals the position that plays, the 2021 Women's FIH Hockey Junior World Cup matches she looks forwards to and the toughest player she faced in the 2019 Varsity Hockey and names one sporting code she would consider playing if she had to take a break from hockey just for a year.

As a junior national team player, Christa also told us about her roommate in national team camps and senior international players that she will like to play against.

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Let's chat about all things women's junior hockey.

Mathapelo Christa Ramasimong is a South African field hockey player and student-athlete at North-West University, studying Educational Science in Social Science & Life Skills (BEd in Intermediate Phase Teaching.

We talk to her about her love for hockey, how has the game of hockey shaped her life on and off the turf, what she likes about hockey 5s, and the 2021 Women's FIH Hockey Junior World Cup to be hosted at her own turf in Potch.

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That is a wrap of our interview series with Lydia Monyepao, the Chief Operating Officer of the South African Football Association (SAFA). We conclude the interview with an episode she answers questions from our Sports Mvt online community.

Monyepao shares her words of motivation to young women who have the interest to make a career in the sport industry and how has the game of women's football developed.

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It is time for our quick-fire questions with Lydia Monyepao.

In this episode, she tells us about her roommate at the national camps with Banyana Banyana, the toughest national team, Best XI, a country with the most memorable cultural experience and the difference between 2002 and 2004 Africa Women’s Championship.

Now the Chief Operating Officer at SAFA discloses her values as a woman in sport and motto in life.

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Who is Lydia Monyepao? She is the Chief Operating Officer at the South African Football Association (SAFA).

In this episode, she takes us through the principles of team management following her involvement with Banyana Banyana for at least two years as a Team Manager, what does women leadership in sport means to her and how much the Deputy Director position at TuksSport shaped her.

Did you know? Monyepao served as a Venue Marketing Coordinator for the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa and holds qualifications such as BCom (Wits), BCom Honours in Accounting (UKZN) and Masters in Sport Management (Loughborough, UK).

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