Having played cricket in the back yard with his uncle and considering the type of stuff floating around in his gene pool, it would have been surprising if Shaun Pollock had not been an international cricketer - and a very good one at that! Read more...

Ryk Neethling is one of the most successful swimmers in history to compete for the University of Arizona and the Republic of South Africa.

Ryk has participated in the last three Olympic Games for South Africa, culminating with a Gold Medal and World Record performance in the 2004 Olympics in Athens, Greece. Read more...

DOUBLE OLYMPIC CHAMPION, AUTHOR AND PROFESSIONAL SPEAKER

As an international swimmer, Penny Heyns established herself as the world's greatest female breaststroker of the 20th Century by becoming the only woman in Olympic history to win both the 100 and 200 meter breaststroke events in Atlanta 1996, bronze in Sydney 2000 and by breaking a total of 14 individual world records during her career. Read more...

Patrick Leonard Symcox (born 14 April 1960 in Kimberley) played 20 Tests and 80 One Day Internationals for South Africa in the 1990s and played provincial cricket for the Natal Dolphins in Durban. Read more...