This document summarizes an article about Sigi Burger, a talented South African netball player who represents both the North-West University and South Africa nationally. It describes her career highlights of winning competitions with South African university and Protea teams. It also shares some of her other interests and talents from her childhood, such as ballroom dancing where she won competitions internationally.
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Sigi Burger shares a childhood
secret you probably didn’t
know
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Her love for netball started at the age of five when her mom would
go fetch her at pre-primary class to go train with the under sevens.
Today she is one of the tallest netball stars in this year’s Varsity
Netball tournament and represents the NWU-Pukke as goal
shooter. Sigi Burger, and yes please pronounce her name
correctly, as “Ziggy”, shared a childhood secret.
The talented player not only represents the North-West University
but also South Africa on the court, and when asked about her
career highlights it’s clear that she still has a bright future ahead of
her.
“My highlight of my career has definitely been being part of the
Protea team that played against Australia, New Zealand and
England, as well as winning the World University Netball
Championships with the South African University team, and
winning Varsity Netball with the Pukke girls last year,” said Burger.
This 1,93m brunette is one of the tallest players in this year’s
Varsity Netball tournament. She claims that although it can be to
her advantage on the court, it can be a bit problematic off the
court.
“Yes, being tall in real life sucks, because it’s always a struggle to
find boys taller than me, but with the netball, it comes in handy.
The other girls are also really tall so it just helps to get the ball a bit
easier when jumping and it also acts as an intimidation factor,”
said Burger.
She doesn’t only show off her moves on the netball court, but
when asked about her hidden dancing talent Sigi laughed and
shared her secret.
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2. From seven years old she did ballroom and Latin dancing and
even competed professionally.
“Yes, I used to compete professionally in all the competitions when
I was younger. The dancing, however, took me to America where I
competed in the World Champs and won my division when I was
10 years old,” said Burger laughingly.
“Growing up in a ‘platteland’ town, we did everything that was
offered. Horse riding was one of my interests and I used to
compete in shows and competitions all the time. My favourite was
dressage and show jumping. My other interests were athletics and
music, as I am able to play three musical instruments,” Burger
explained.
Sigi Burger is a girl with many talents, on and off the court, but
Pukke will be counting on her goal shooting ability up front as they
go in search of the 2016 Varsity Netball title.
By Raynique Meyer
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