Student 24/7 May 2014 | Page 33

SPORT NWU Vaal boasts with international Sport Ambassador Annette Willemse NWU Vaal boasts with international sport ambassador The Vaal Triangle Campus of the North-West University (NWU Vaal) boasts with an international sport ambassador. The very talented 19-year old Shanté Bukes, a BCom student and the current world Jetski Women’s Runabout Stock champion, will take up the reigns as the Campus’s first-ever sport ambassador. Shanté burst onto the global sport scene in 2013 when she won the Jet Ski Kings Cup in Pattaya, Thailand. When asked about how she feels about her appointment as sport ambassador, she says that the announcement left her speechless. “For a moment I did not know how to react! It was only after seeing my father wiping away tears of joy that the reality of the announcement took root,” NWU Vaal hosts first-ever Intervarsity Equ