{"id":140849,"date":"2016-12-18T12:36:00","date_gmt":"2016-12-18T10:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/140849\/athlete-jumps-to-sa-team\/"},"modified":"2016-12-18T13:01:07","modified_gmt":"2016-12-18T11:01:07","slug":"athlete-jumps-to-sa-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/sports-news\/2016\/12\/18\/athlete-jumps-to-sa-team\/","title":{"rendered":"Athlete jumps to SA team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Germiston Callies athlete Pedro Aaron (17) has had a good athletics year.<\/p>\n<p>Aaron was awarded the Male Athlete of the Year award in the Secondary School category of the Ekurhuleni North District 2016 School Sports Awards held in Kempton Park\u2019s Civic Centre on December 7.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>Aaron is a 100m, 200m, 400m hurdles, 110m hurdles and long jump athlete who represented Ho\u00ebrskool Goudrif and Germiston Callies throughout the year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis award was given to him based on his long jump performance,\u201d said Aaron\u2019s coach, Stephan\u00e8 Kotz\u00e8.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>\u201cHe is a hard worker; he trains hard and is committed to his work.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The youngster said he was humbled by the award.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis success makes me feel good and I am proud of myself for training hard and giving my all at competitions,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Due to his success, Aaron has also been selected into the South African Youth team that is set to compete next year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe was crowned the South African Youth Champion in long jump which qualified him for the team,\u201d said Kotz\u00e8.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am proud of him and excited about his future, it looks bright.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Other accolades achieved in long jump this year:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Central Gauteng Athletics Youth Champion.<\/li>\n<li>Gauteng Schools Long Jump Champion.<\/li>\n<li>South African Schools Long Jump Champion.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u201cThank you to Pick n Pay Primrose for their continued sponsorship which has helped Aaron throughout his competitions,\u201d said Kotz\u00e8.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe is taking a break now but January he will be back in training and ready to increase this year\u2019s personal best of 7.24m to 7.55m.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>You might also want to read:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/140528\/cga-rounds-out-the-year\/\">CGA rounds out the year<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/138348\/young-athletes-show-their-passion\/\">Young athletes show their passion<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"stream-item stream-item-below-post-content\">\n<div class='tenancy_slot tenancy_slot_1 jannah_ad' style='display: none;' data-query-id='a3317fc4a2825efdda25afc985751b07'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ho\u00ebrskool Goudrif and Germiston Callies was well represented by Pedro Aaron (17) at the Ekurhuleni North District 2016 School Sports Awards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":140850,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"Puleng Sekabate","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,3],"tags":[1126,1794,2464,1106,2655,969,1642,13241,2749],"class_list":["post-140849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-sports","category-sports-news","tag-athletics","tag-central-gauteng-athletics","tag-cga","tag-gcn","tag-germiston-callies","tag-germiston-city-news","tag-hoerskool-goudrif","tag-local-athlete","tag-puleng-sekabate"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"Sport","SubCategory":"Local sport"},"tag_labels":["athletics","central gauteng athletics","cga","GCN","Germiston Callies","germiston city news","ho\u00ebrskool goudrif","local athlete","Puleng Sekabate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1848"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140849\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/140850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}