Kendra du Toit breaks SA record in the pool at Lifesaving SA Championships

Tuks successfully defended their overall DHL Lifesaving National Club Championship Pool title with a convincing victory at Newton Park in Gqeberha in a three-day spectacle that included Tuks’s teenage star Kendra du Toit breaking a South African record in the 17-18 female grouping and also scoring the most points (47) among all female competitors.

Tuks also did the business without their internationally acclaimed superstar Johan Lourens, who withdrew because of injury.

Tuks were crowned overall junior and senior pool champions with 302.50 points, with Harties second with 284 points and Umhlanga third with 167 points.

The Tuks seniors were in a league of their own, totaling 174 points with Harties and Umhlanga tied for second with 38 points respectively.

Harties, though, showed that the future is bright with a compelling team victory in the age groups 14-18, scoring 256 points, with Tuks second (128 points) and Umhlanga second (129 points) and Tuks third (128 points).

Individually, Bloemfontein’s Douglas-Len Mac Kay was outstanding in the age group 17-18 and his 48 points over the course of three days was the highest of the competition.

Individual age category winners were: Harties’ Linique Rowles (14 years-old female) with 40 points, Harties’ Neil Holtzhausen (14 years-old male) with 40 points, Clifton’s Savannah Voigt (15-16 female) with 38.5 points, Harties’s Antonie Pieterse (15-16 male) with 42 points, Tuks’ Kendra du Toit (female 17-18) with 47 points that included a South African record, Bloemfontein Sentraal’s Len-Douglas Mac Kay (male 17-18) with a competition high of 48 points, Umhlanga’s Sasha-Lee Nordegen and Durban Surf’s (Amica) de Jager with 38 points respectively in the female 19-29 and Tuks’s Kian du Toit with