Kayla Swarts
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Kayla Swarts (born 24 May 2003)[2] is a South African field hockey and sevens player for the South African national team.
Career
[edit | edit source]Field hockey
[edit | edit source]Under–21
[edit | edit source]Swarts made her debut for the 2023 Junior Africa Cup in Ismailia[3] and 2023 Hockey Junior World Cup in Santiago.[4]
National team
[edit | edit source]Swarts made her debut for the FIH Nations Cup in Valencia.[5][6]
In 2024 she will become an Olympian, representing South Africa at the XXXIII Olympic Games in Paris.[7][8]
Rugby union
[edit | edit source]National sevens team
[edit | edit source]Between 2024, she represented the Springbok Women’s Sevens A team team in the Dubai 7s International tournaments.[9][10] The 2025 World Rugby Sevens Challenger Series represented the Springbok Women’s Sevens team.[11]
Personal life
[edit | edit source]She was living with her mother and father, Odessa Swarts (née Krause)[12] and Steven Swarts, in Bloemfontein.[13] Her brother, Wayde van Niekerk also is a South African track and field sprinter who competes in the 200 and 400 metres.[14][15][16][17] She is the cousin of South African World Cup-winning rugby union and rugby sevens player Cheslin Kolbe.[18]
She attended Eunice High School.[19]
References
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External links
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- 2003 births
- Living people
- Cape Coloureds
- South African female field hockey players
- South Africa international women's rugby sevens players
- Female field hockey midfielders
- North-West University Hockey Club players
- Stellenbosch University Hockey Club players
- Central Hockey Club players
- Field hockey players at the 2024 Summer Olympics
- Olympic field hockey players for South Africa
- 21st-century South African sportswomen
- South African field hockey biography stubs