Catherine Williamson '23 Recruiting Profile

I‘ve always wanted to be great - coming from a very small town in South Africa, I told myself that I had to.  So I would  sit in my room and little me would plan my life ahead of me: how I would go overseas for the first time to an amazing Uni and live my best life and what not.  Poor Grade 3 me had no idea about the complicated process it took to get into an American University… but then I got into the polo pool.  I knew then that this was my ticket out of here and this was what I wanted to be doing. For me there is nothing, nothing that can compare to the feeling that I get when i’m in the pool playing - it’s my complete release, everything falls away and nothing else matters except the game.  

To be honest i’m a pretty determined person, sometimes to a fault. If I want to achieve something  i’ll do everything I can to do it, even when I need to actually stop and calm down.  So THAT is what’s taken me from barely being able to shoot a ball in Grade 5 to being a young captain of my first team, to playing provincial waterpolo,  to making the national team and it’s hopefully what will take me to my dream University life.  I’m a passionate person, i’ll throw myself 100% into my sport, academics, culture and everything that I do but I can find the perfect balance between being serious and working hard and having a good time with great vibes :) I’ve been preparing for this life I want for so long..

… I’m ready to start it.